Is Monster Jobs Legit? Who Runs It After the 2025 Sale

Is Monster legit? Who runs it after the 2025 bankruptcy

Is Monster jobs legit? Yes. It is a real job board that kept running through its owner's 2025 bankruptcy and sale.

Monster and CareerBuilder completed a merger in September 2024, and the combined company, CareerBuilder + Monster, went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Monster Worldwide was "a debtor in a Chapter 11 case filed 24 June 2025," Staffing Industry Analysts reported. The company sold its businesses in pieces. In its July 31, 2025 announcement that the sales had closed, CareerBuilder + Monster said BOLD "has acquired the Company's job board business, retained the rights to the Monster and CareerBuilder brands." BOLD runs resume and job sites such as Zety, MyPerfectResume, and FlexJobs, as Staffing Industry Analysts noted when the sale closed.

The company you deal with on monster.com today is named in Monster's Terms of Use (last updated July 27, 2026): they are "the legal contract between MCB Puerto Rico LLC (558803) ("Provider") and each individual seeking employment."

What Monster checks, and what it leaves to you

Monster sets rules for employers and can remove jobs that break them. Its Security Center says employers must not post "inaccurate, false, or misleading information," and that "Monster reserves the right to remove postings that do not meet these standards."

That removal happens after a job is already up. On checking jobs before they go live, the Terms of Use say:

• "Provider does not screen or censor the listings, or Profiles offered."
• "Provider cannot and does not confirm that each User is who they claim to be."
• "Employers are solely responsible for their postings on Provider Sites."
• The company "is not responsible for User Content, Job Ads, the quality, safety or legality of the jobs or resumes posted."

A job on Monster tells you only that someone posted it. Whether the company is who it claims to be, and whether the job is open, is yours to find out. The Security Center puts it this way: "it's possible that you may encounter fraudulent job opportunities when searching for jobs online."

A real company can also post a job it is not actively filling. Our guide to ghost jobs covers the signs.

Scams that use Monster's name, and how to check a job

Monster's Security Center has warnings on online interview scams, WhatsApp scam offers, money laundering and reshipping, work-at-home jobs, and car wrapping. Two warnings are about scammers who pretend to be Monster itself and reach you outside the site.

• Forged emails. Monster warns that "you may receive fraudulent email that has had the sender's email address forged to make it appear as if it came from" Monster. A familiar sender name proves nothing, so go to monster.com yourself instead of clicking links in the email.
• WhatsApp offers. Monster has "received reports of fraudulent text messages, automated phone calls and voicemail messages" in its name. Its warning says: "We do not use WhatsApp to discuss hiring or other business related communications."

The job itself can be the scam, too. Monster's online interview scam warning lists these red flags: an invitation that "requires a candidate to create a profile with a 3rd party messaging tool," a candidate who is "hired after an interview via messages only," a hiring manager who "asks for the candidate's bank information," and job requirements that "include receiving payments, shipping goods or making purchases." Its advice is to research the company and "contact their Human Resources directly to verify the job opening is valid."

Before you send anything beyond your resume, run each Monster job through these checks:

• Find the same job on the company's own careers page, and reach the company through contact details from its official website, not from the message you got.
• Never pay for a job, training, or certifications. The FTC says: "Honest employers, including the federal government, will never ask you to pay to get a job."
• Keep your ID and account numbers private. Monster's terms tell job seekers to protect themselves "by never providing social security, credit card or bank account numbers to prospective employers."
• Monster asks you to send suspicious postings to siteabuse@monster.com.
• When a company fails these checks, click the eye icon beside its name on a Monster card, and HideJobs keeps that company out of your results on every job site it supports where it posts under that same name. Add words that always rule a card out, such as "reshipping" or "car wrap," to Keywords.

What each scam type looks like, and what to do if you already paid or shared details, is in our guide to job scams.

What happens to your profile and applications

If you make your Monster profile public, employers can find your resume. The Terms of Use give employers a "license for access to a database of resumes" and let them "search for and evaluate Job Seekers," and they let you make your profile, "or aspects thereof, public or private." Check that setting in your account before you upload a resume with your home address or personal phone number on it.

Applying shares more. Under ExpertApply, the terms say Monster uses generative AI "to search for job postings that match users' preferences" and, "at the user's request, applies to these jobs on their behalf," and that when it does, "we share your personal information with the job posting and potential employers." The same section asks you to "report any suspicious, fraudulent, or scam job postings encountered in the Service." If you let a tool apply for you, you still need to look at where it sent your details.

Mass applying also makes it hard to remember where you applied. Click Mark as Applied next to Apply or Quick Apply, choose Add to tracker, and HideJobs saves the job to your HideJobs job tracker, the same tracker you use on the other supported sites.

Search Monster without wading through the same listings again

The HideJobs browser extension keeps companies you ruled out, words you never want to see, and jobs you already handled out of your Monster search results. It works on monster.com job search pages in a desktop browser, and uses the same company and keyword lists as on LinkedIn, Indeed, and the other job sites it supports.

• Companies. Click the eye icon beside a company name on a Monster card and that company's jobs disappear. The company joins one Hidden Companies list that applies on every supported site. When you type a name into the list yourself, use the exact name on the card, such as "Acme Corp".
• Keywords. Hides cards whose text contains words you never want, such as a job title, a city, or a word you see in listings you always skip. It checks the text on each job card and matches parts of words, so "Java" also hides "JavaScript".
• Applied and Dismissed. Each card gets Mark as Applied and Mark as Dismissed buttons, and marked jobs disappear while the filter is on. Mark as Applied also sits next to Apply and Quick Apply in the open job. When HideJobs asks "Add to Job Tracker?", choose Add to tracker and the job is saved in your HideJobs job tracker.
• Already applied, on any site. When your job tracker has an applied job at the same company with a very similar title, the Monster card says "Likely applied to this job on LinkedIn" (or the site you used). If you applied to other roles there, it says so, for example "Applied to 3 jobs at this company." "Likely" means it matches on company and title, so give the card a quick look before you skip it. The line labels the card and leaves it in your results.

For blocking companies across every site you use, see how to exclude companies from your job search.