Can Monster be the no.1 job site in India?

Till U deliver .. U are counted .. !!

In a situation, where rampant pinkslips / joblosses are there, does not matter who stands No. 1. The unemployed require job and so long s/he do not get a job, rank  of the job site do not matter. Practically, s/he will enroll in all sites .. !!

The Monster dent came when their site got hacked in US; in that way it had its echo felt in India also.......

In my opinion, there is not a generally valid answer. So I support for "No".

For example, if you are a great company, with a well established employer branding, I suppose a better solution would be to have an own Internal Job Market portal, duable in use: for internal and external hiring, supporting a well integrated process.

If you are focused mainly on internal indian market, may be a local job site with a brand more established is the best solution (many of the previous respondents mentioned someone of these).

If you are addressing an international market and your employer brand isn't so well established all around the world, your strategy must be more differentiated. To have one common international partner, any case, is only one out of many possible strategies. For example, Monster don't seems to be a good choice for managers/ middle manager s positions: country by country a more focused/ specialized solution could be the best

My 2 cents

so many job portals doing much better than monster....naukri is one of them

any site which gives shaukri with a naukri is number :: 1

In my opinion no job site is number 1.

First of all I would like to know what are the criterion on which number 1 is decided. Is it number of Hits or the feedbacks from the employers/employee.

Practically, Job seeker enrolls himself/herself to more than one job site, off course Monster is one of them. When an individual is really in search of a job, he doesn't care from which site he is receiving the call whether monster or any else. He/she just want to have a job.

Most of the updates you receive from Monster/Yahoo/Naukri on your e-mail ID does not suits yours profile. For example, if you are a searching for a job of Project Manager in Publishing field. The e-mail you will receive will contain all the jobs of Project Manager except for the one in publishing field.

There search engines also captures shows the same.

From the employee point of espect it is essential to know the Keywords for your profile, most of the times your keywords will extract jobs that does not match your profile.

Generally, we do not receive any acknowledgement from the employer side, we receive acknowledgement from the job portal site that your application has been forwarded.

I have not gone for the paid services for these site, hopefully, when you pay you must not be facing the above mentioned facts.

Factor that is of utmost importance is native country, state job sites which enables the employer and employee to fetch people from neighbouring areas, untill you don't want to work offshore.

Most of the times the job sites seems to be made for the professtionals of very high skills. Your specific search will yield only few results that too of no use. Most of the biggies does not want to put their jobs on the site. They either want to place it through internal reference of IJPs. As NAUKRI.com is preferred site in INDIA.

Therefore, MONSTER or any other job sites cannot be considered as number 1 or 2 or so on...

perhaps they shud look up Naukri as case study... then