Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

MonsterTRAK Died But Its Advertising Didn’t

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Nine years ago, Monster purchased the leading college job board system, JobTRAK, for a reported $280 million. By early 2009, the since re-named MonsterTRAK had only three employees and only hundreds of job postings. On April 7, 2009, Monster formally announced that it had closed (killed?) MonsterTRAK. Contrary to what some may assume, I took no pleasure in seeing the demise of such a…

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