Jeff runs the Monster of all job boards. The original Monster board was one of the first nationally recognized job boards. Jeff merged the most utilized job board (in the mid 1990 s) O.C.C. into Monster and began to build the Monster of all on-line recruiting brands, employing an aggressive advertising strategy. Jeff completely separated from the pack upon the acquisition of Monster by TMP. The (TMP) parent s deep pockets helped Monster maintain on-line recruiting dominance, while economic pressures or consolidation reduced the number competitors.
About: Jeff Taylor
The idea for Monster came to founder Jeff Taylor in a dream.
Head of his own recruitment ad agency, Adion, Jeff was focusing his business on big ideas and technological efficiencies for his high-tech clients. In the fall of 1993, a client said to him, 'No more big ideas. I want a monster idea!'
Soon afterward, Jeff says, 'I woke up at 4:30 a.m. from a dream that I built a bulletin board system where people could look for jobs. In the dark, I wrote down on a pad next to my bed, The Monster Board. Realizing that in the morning I wouldn t be able to read what I had written, I got out of bed, went to a coffee shop, and at five in the morning designed a lot of the concepts and interface we re still using today.'
Recognized as an innovator and visionary in both the Internet and careers industries, Jeff has reinvented the way the world looks for employment. His 'monster idea,' conceived at the dawn of the World Wide Web, quickly became one of the first dot com companies (454th on the Web) and has since grown into the world s leading online career site. Today, the Monster global network consists of local content and language sites in 21 countries and serves over 14 million unique visitors monthly.
Jeff is a frequent speaker at colleges and universities across the country, and at technology, advertising and human capital conferences hosted by such noted organizations as Forrester Research, 21st Century Workforce Summit, Kennedy Information, The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), Fast Company and The Working Women Network. He serves on both the National and Massachusetts boards of directors of Junior Achievement and is also a board member of Boston s Wang Center for the Performing Arts.
With an executive MBA/OPM from the Harvard Business School and his undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Jeff also holds an Honorary Doctorate from Bentley College.
In March 2000, Jeff reached yet another notable milestone: he became the Blimp Water-skiing World Champion.
