Human Resources: Monster Expands HR Alliance Program with Six New Members

MAYNARD, Mass. – December 14, 2006 – Monster®, the leading global online careers and recruitment resource and flagship brand of Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: MNST), today announced it has added six companies to its roster of HR Alliance Program members and expanded the program’s scope to include two new categories. New Premier members include: APS - SmartSearch Online, HRsmart and MrTed. New Certified members include: JobAps, KBACE and Propellum (a Zycus division). Through its Certified members, Monster moves into the job wrapping and applicant tracking system (ATS) consultant categories. Today’s announcement brings the HR Alliance Program’s total membership to 18 organizations.

“The continued expansion of Monster’s HR Alliance program underscores our commitment to providing customers with a variety of integrated recruitment solutions aimed at enhancing their overall efficiencies and operational processes,” said Neal Bruce, vice president of alliances for Monster. “Additional expansion and integration of ATS products is one of the top requests we receive from our customers, and we remain focused on broadening the number of integrated products available to them.”

The addition of KBACE as a certified consultant enables Monster to offer real-time posting to joint customers who utilize Oracle’s iRecruitment ATS. With job wrapping, new Certified member Zycus offers customers the ability to have their job advertisements simultaneously posted on Monster and through Zycus.

Background on Monster’s HR Alliance Members:

Monster’s HR Alliance Program offers two levels of participation: Premier and Certified. Information on current HR Alliance Members can be located at the following address: http://info.monster.com/alliances/hrvendor.asp

Below are the newest members of the Monster HR Alliance Program.

New Premier Alliance Members

APS - SmartSearch Online, is a leading application service provider in the applicant tracking marketplace. In business for more than 20 years, APS provides software and services to almost 300 companies around the world. With different database modes to support both corporate employers and staffing firms, SmartSearch Online works whether you have one user or thousands. Ranked #1 in customer retention and satisfaction, implementing SmartSearch Online makes you look good. www.smartsearchonline.com

HRsmart provides the full range of talent management solutions to help organizations of all sizes attract, identify, develop, motivate and retain top performers. It is the only provider to deliver the full suite of products—applicant tracking, performance appraisal, learning management and succession planning—from a single shared database, so information is shared to form a single talent management solution. HRsmart has an alliance with Monster to support part of the Monster Talent Management Suite, a set of fully integrated employment solutions targeted toward small businesses and mid-size enterprise companies. www.hrsmart.com

MrTed is a leading provider of talent management solutions, designed to help organizations of all sizes to optimize the processes of acquiring and deploying talent on a local and worldwide scale. The company’s solution suite, MrTedTalentLink™, is used by organizations in all activity sectors across more than 100 countries, driving significant cost savings and efficiency gains while allowing them to attract, hire, and retain the right talent. Its unique collaborative environment smoothly integrates into any infrastructure and brings all recruitment stakeholders together in an easy and intuitive way. All our solutions are web-based, easy-to-use, supported in over 25 languages and can be deployed in a matter of weeks with MrTed’s proven Implementation Methodology and expert consultants. www.mrted.com

New Certified Alliance Members

JobAps has been designing Applicant Tracking and Recruiting Systems for the public sector since 1999. JobAps automates the full hiring lifecycle and features the most sophisticated end-to-end online recruitment, tracking, and testing system for government agencies available anywhere. JobAps was the first online recruitment system launched for any County in the State of California and continues to provide world-class solutions using state-of-the-art technologies to solve the unique hiring challenges of the public sector. www.JobAps.com

KBACE is an Oracle Certified Advantage Partner and has five lines of business dedicated to the Oracle® E-Business Suite: Professional Services, Development, Education, Support Services, and Software. KBACE carries a high level of knowledge and experience in all of the Oracle® E-Business Suite modules, including Projects, Manufacturing, Human Capital Management, Financials, Supply Chain, and Customer Relationship Management. www.kbace.com

Propellum is the Job Data Management division of Zycus providing end-to-end job content management and syndication solutions. In business over 5 years, Propellum has powered several leading job-boards and media entities, earning stellar recommendations for the quality and turn-around time in sourcing quality job content using AI technology. The Propellum solution uses its proprietary products such as AutoCrawl (highly specialized and automated jobs aggregator), AutoClass (automated hierarchical classification of jobs), AutoParse (intelligent extraction of explicit and implicit job attributes) and Syndication modules to provide automated and highly scalable (millions of jobs a month) job wrapping solutions to its customers. www.propellum.com

For more information about the Monster HR Alliance Program, please call 1-800-MONSTER or visit http://info.monster.com/alliances/hrvendor.asp.

About the Monster HR Alliance Program

Monster established the HR Alliance Program in 2004 to foster the integration of Monster’s core offerings with industry-leading recruitment products and services. Through the HR Alliance Program, Monster offers its customers increased application rates, the ability to manage multiple hiring platforms through a single interface, and improved integrity and capture of candidate sourcing information.

About Monster Worldwide

Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: MNST) parent company of Monster®, the premier global online employment solution for more than a decade, strives to bring people together to advance their lives. With a local presence in key markets in North America, Europe, and Asia, Monster works for everyone by connecting employers with quality job seekers at all levels and by providing personalized career advice to consumers globally. Through online media sites and services, Monster delivers vast, highly targeted audiences to advertisers. Monster Worldwide is a member of the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100. To learn more about Monster's industry-leading products and services, visit www.monster.com. More information about Monster Worldwide is available at www.monsterworldwide.com.

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