Monster.com.br and Grupo Estado Form Strategic Job Search and Recruitment Services Alliance

 Monster.com.br , the Brazilian branch of Monster - the worldwide leader in connecting people to job opportunities and flagship brand of Monster Worldwide, Inc.  (NYSE: MWW), and Grupo Estado have announced a strategic alliance. The classified/ad web page Empregos & Carreiras, published on the Estadao.com.br website (the leading online publication from Grupo Estado editorial group), will now offer Monster Brasil’s complete portfolio of online recruitment services. The alliance fully integrates Monster.com.br’s comprehensive solutions into the Estadao.com.br website, delivering a complete job-search and recruitment experience to local audiences.

The alliance will empower both job seekers and recruiters by offering job-search capabilities, resume management, career tools and advice. Local employers will benefit from an increased breadth of online recruitment solutions including access to Monster’s CV database and superior talent-matching technology. For those who registered their CV on Monster’s website, this announcement symbolizes a meaningful increase in the number of job opportunities they can now access.

“This alliance celebrates the union between Estadao’s classified/ad pages, the most respected with the largest number of ads and the highest return rate in print publications in Brazil, with Monster, the worldwide leader in connecting people to job opportunities,” said Fabio Costa, Grupo Estado’s Executive Director. “We believe in the success of the project, which will increase the productivity of one of the most important aspects of the Brazilian economy: a better use of the available human resources in the country.”

According to Costa, Estadao will now offer a wide array of multiplatform services, including both the printed newspaper and the internet. The advertising market will also benefit from this alliance, as it allows individual actions or cross media initiatives in both environments – the Monster.com.br and Estadao.com.br websites.

Empregos & Carreiras is a relevant publication among the Brazilian HR segment, being the only print publication with nation-wide circulation. Issued every Sunday, it has a circulation of 285,000 with over 1,500 job offers per edition, reaching more than 540,000 O Estado de S. Paulo readers. In addition to providing the job offers from leading companies in the country, readers can find articles about the Brazilian job market, op-ed articles about specialized professionals, and comparative charts about job evaluation and average salaries.

“We’re thrilled that O Estado de S. Paulo has chosen Monster Brasil as its recruitment partner,” said Rob Brouwer, Monster’s Executive VP and General Manager of Latin America and Developing Markets. “By combining O Estado de S. Paulo’s local relationships and credibility with Monster’s recruitment expertise and deep pool of talent and opportunities, seekers will have access to the best job opportunities in their markets. Furthermore, employers will be able to better tap into the talent available in their markets.”

Monster is committed to helping publishers deliver world-class experiences and content to the communities they serve. Monster offers its technology, resources and employment industry expertise to publishers with a goal of helping them deepen advertiser relationships and grow web audiences interested in career content. Monster has relationships with more than 70 media companies, including over 1,000 daily and weekly newspapers globally, to deliver targeted value to employers and job seekers.

Launched in August 2010 in Brazil, Monster.br  already has a database of 1.5 million CVs and over 300 companies as clients1. Monster helps companies leverage their employer brand to efficiently attract, hire and manage the best talents online.