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Monster.co.uk was a huge hit back in England and always a great resource when looking for jobs. As the Internet took off job sites got larger and larger and they were certainly far easier to use than browsing the newspaper. You can't search the newspaper, or look for jobs in specific areas for example.

In Europe it's actually the largest career site with over 13 million resumes and a new CV is submitted every 12 seconds!

Anyway in January this year Monster has launched the Malaysian version at www.monster.com.my and straight out with some positions from big companies such as HSBC, Tyco, Maxis, Mitsubishi and more. As they already have a pretty strong global brand in the job market it's not too difficult for them to move into Malaysia.

I do wonder how they will compete against Jobstreet and JobsDB which are already well established here and have a strong brand amongst local job seekers.

Seen as though Monster is here now it's good to know about it and there's no harm in using multiple sites to increase your chance of finding a suitable job.

There aren't that many jobs on Monster Malaysia right now, but it's fairly new so it'll take a while to build up some momentum.

I'll be keeping an eye on it anyhow!

I've had an extremely long and rather colourful work history, starting a young age I had to learn to be self-sufficient. There was barely enough food to eat at home and definitely no money spare to buy anything considered remotely luxurious..

It all helped though and it helped me mature a lot, mainly in terms of finances it really taught me the value of money and that money isn't easy to come by so don't simple spend it frivolously. I won't list all the jobs as I had as some were temp and lasted a few days or in some cases a few hours...I'll mention those that I find interesting, or somehow relevant in my development.

I think it's something Asian kids generally lack, working, earning money and learning some respect for the value of money. Kids here don't have to contribute to their own studies or cars..they just get given money for free!

How many of you have had part time jobs? If you look at the catering industry here, or manual labour, security guards or factory workers and so on they are mostly foreign workers. All of these jobs are considered to 'low' for locals. You know what? In UK I've done ALL of those jobs.

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