Monster+

Monster+ is the employer-facing hiring product from Monster, one of the longest-established names in online recruitment, providing an applicant dashboard through which employers can view, match, rate and message candidates directly. Its central advantage is not workflow sophistication but reach and candidate supply: Monster operates a very large jobseeker audience and CV database accumulated over decades, and the product's value proposition rests on connecting an employer's vacancy to that pool quickly rather than on providing the deepest recruitment toolset.

Job posting places a vacancy in front of Monster's jobseeker audience and across its distribution network, with the platform's matching technology assessing incoming applicants against the role requirements and surfacing the strongest fits rather than presenting an undifferentiated list. That matching and automatic rating is the feature that matters most to the product's target user — a small business owner or manager who posts a role, receives a large number of applications of widely varying relevance, and has neither the time nor the framework to sift them properly. Ratings and match scores provide a starting order of priority. The applicant dashboard consolidates candidates in one view where they can be filtered, rated, shortlisted and progressed, and direct messaging allows an employer to contact a candidate immediately from within the platform rather than switching to email, which measurably improves response rates in competitive markets. CV database search permits proactive sourcing, approaching suitable candidates who have not applied to the specific vacancy. Additional capability covers job advertisement templates, posting to multiple locations, candidate communication history and basic reporting on application volume and source. Integration with wider Monster hiring services and third-party systems is available. The product is aimed at small and mid-sized employers who need candidates quickly and prefer a self-service, pay-as-you-post arrangement. Pricing is per posting rather than a fixed subscription; there is no free version and no free trial.