Recently I had an opportunity to use monsterindia.com as an employer as I was looking for an assistant and one of their marketing people had strongly recomended their site to me. Well I am a gynaecologist and was looking for a lady gynaecologist doctor and proceeded to pay up the Rs1000 that is needed for an employer to create a profile. The signup process and the payment procedure was painless. It took about 30 min for me to complete and post my requirements of the job on the site.
To check out their efficiency I also created a free job-seeking profile that matched to some extent the profile I had posted and searched the database with those key-words. Unfortunately it was only after 2 days that my own job listing would show up in search results.
After that I get what seems like automated emails with brief resumes of applicants and this is where the horror story starts. the initial average was more than 5 per day and has now trickled down to 2-3 after 3 weeks. But their automated system seems to be senseless. My requirement was for a lady gynaecologist. 99% of the emails I got were about software and hardware engineers. Since my phone number was in job profile, one guy even rang me up saying that even though I needed a gynaecologist, would I be interested in employing a network engineer too.
I think in short non-IT employers do not stand to gain anything from posting at this site. utterly useless waste of money. As for IT industry employers, the sheer numbers of people and the resumes they will have to deal with would be baffling in this package of Rs1000 for 60 days. If you want to manually browser resumes posted by applicants a higher package is needed.