Monster.com is a global employment website and job search engine headquartered in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Along with its sister site, CareerBuilder, it is owned by BOLD Holdings.[1]
History
In the early 1990s, Jeff Taylor, the owner of human resources company Adion, contracted Net Daemons Associates to develop a facility whereby job seekers could search a job database with a web browser. The site went live in April 1994 as Monsterboard.com. It was populated with job descriptions from the newspaper segment of Adion's business.
It was one of the first employment websites.[2]
Shortly thereafter, it was acquired by TMP Worldwide, led by Andrew McKelvey, for $930,000. TMP also acquired Online Career Center and, in 1999, merged it with Monster Board to form Monster.com.[3][4]