LinkedIn, Indeed, Monster.com: Advantages and Disadvantages Analysis

This report provides a comparative analysis of three prominent professional networking and job search platforms: LinkedIn, Indeed, and Monster.com. It begins by outlining the core functionalities of LinkedIn, emphasizing its role in professional networking, career development, and the ability to c...Read More

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LinkedIn
 Anybody who takes his or her professional life seriously regarding new opportunities to
grow as well as connect to several other professionals is connected through LinkedIn. It does not
matter a person may be a business owner or a first year college students who is looking for job can
connected through LinkedIn.
 On this platform , people are connected with each other through adding them as ''connections'' that are
similar to Facebook's friend request. Person can also connect through private messages as well as
professional achievements and experience that laid out within a neatly organized profile so that it can
show off other users.
 Its is similar to the Facebook within the terms of its broad features offering as these are the features
that are more specialized due to they serve to professional. If anybody knows how to use Facebook or
other social media platform ,then LinkedIn is easy for them to use.

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 Advantages of LinkedIn
 Get connected- It has decent searched features that aids to find people within industry as well as
industries where they already work. Here don't try to link the people to build number of connections,
but they have to use their connections to build the relationship with the target consumers.
 Gather feedback- This is the great place to ask regarding feedback from people about the ideas as well
as opinions as it is a great way to recognizes potential consumers as well as make current consumers
feels valued. Here asking for an input gives an opportunity to mention a service or a product without
doing advertisement for it.
 It is a place within LinkedIn to grow the brand as it is like other tool that makes the best use of it as
well as develop the voice of the company and at the same time able to build the participation level.

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 Disadvantages
 Slow reaction time through LinkedIn Support - It is very slow to react and also leads to the slow
consumer service as it leads to the unhappy consumers, but at the same time there is a need of
understanding that it offers a free access to their platforms for each and everybody as well as having
free access for thousands of users.
 It own personal information
 Hidden expenses-It supports itself by the help of the advertisement to target its costumers by the
information it collects by users profiles. Several people consider it as one of the biggest
disadvantages as they are not comfortable to sold their professional information being sold.

Indeed
 It is considered as a metasearch engine that is used for job postings from a thousand of websites as
well as employment firms that includes firms recruitment and career web pages. Earlier Indeed was a
recruitment and career web pages but after 2011 it allows the users to apply directly for jobs as it is the
capability to pull all the job listing from several other diverse sources .
 Anyone searched a job by using keyword such as level of experience, job title industry and many
more. It also added the services such as salary comparisons, resume storage ,employment related
trends, salary comparisons and news as well as user forums.

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 Advantages of indeed
 One of the main benefit of indeed is that they are providing the multiple hiring techniques
such as
 Free job posting
 they are created the job post by using the technique called free job posting that will appear
within the website search outcome page rely on relevance.
 Sponsored Job posting

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 Disadvantages of indeed
 It is a sort of no- frill job sites as the layout as navigation isn't pleasing than other sites as
well as it offers very little within terms of additional resources . It is a kind of the search
engine regarding job listings which is similar to other sites.

Monster. com
 is known as the globally employment website that are owned as well as operated through
Monster Worldwide, Inc.
 It is largest resume database within the world. It has unique features as well as establishes
the standard It falls under top three data base mining as many recruiters will pick out
monster as the place to post their jobs as it is the well known as well as default for several
job hunters.
 Many recruiters are focusing on the monster. com as it is fast as well as easy and also
functionality of resume search is very user-friendly.

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 Advantages
 it has the unique feature for examples if someone currently employed as well as looking for a new job
but at the same time don't want that his or her employer get to know about this thing than Monster
provides incredible advanced filtering options as well as helpful resource centre.
 Disadvantages
 the biggest issues to the indeed is the size as well as popularity is the presence of redundancy and
spam. Businesses very well known that the Monster has a huge number of audiences as well as attempt
to take benefit of this exposure .As it spoils the user experience as well as frustrate people who are
regularly visits their site.

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