The San Diego Union-Tribune and Monster.com Form Strategic Job Search and Recruitment Services Alliance; Launch Co-Branded Career Site

SAN DIEGO & MAYNARD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Monster.com®, the leading global online career and recruitment resource and flagship brand of Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: MWW) and The San Diego Union-Tribune, today announced a strategic alliance and launch of co-branded Web site to offer combined online and print services via The San Diego Union-Tribune and SignOn San Diego (www.signonsandiego.com).

“Now, local job seekers and employers will enjoy a leading portfolio of job-finding tools, recruitment solutions and online innovation.”

The alliance will provide readers of The San Diego Union-Tribune, the region’s leading local media company, with access to Monster’s tools and career resources to help local job seekers connect with the companies that are hiring now. In addition, job seekers can now access Monster’s career management tools and wide-ranging career advice to help not only find a job, but manage their careers. Employers will benefit from the easy availability of a more comprehensive recruitment solution that utilizes print and online advertising components as well as access to Monster’s resume database and recruitment tools.

“This alliance combines the strength of the local market leaders, The San Diego Union-Tribune and SignOnSanDiego.com, with the leading global career and recruitment resource, Monster.com,” said Lauren Chacón, vice president and general manager of media alliances, Monster. “Now, local job seekers and employers will enjoy a leading portfolio of job-finding tools, recruitment solutions and online innovation.”

The Monster alliance comes on the heels of SignOn San Diego recent Web redesign which now offers a new look, easier navigation and more robust content. Mike Hodges, general manager for SignOn San Diego and vice president of interactive for The San Diego Union-Tribune, said the partnership exemplifies the SignOn vision to be “San Diego’s home page.”

“The resources and expertise of Monster will add to the expert journalism and existing content on SignOn San Diego making it the place to go not only for starting your day, catching breaking news while it happens or finding out what to do in San Diego, but also for a complete array of resources for job seekers and employers,” said Hodges. “Through the alliance, we will now offer job seeking, career management, recruitment and talent management products and services that will pair the job seekers and employers more efficiently and effectively.”

Monster’s media alliances now include more than 400 daily and weekly newspapers and over 100 television outlets.

About Monster Worldwide

Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: MWW), parent company of Monster, the premier global online employment solution for more than a decade, strives to inspire people to improve 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. To learn more about Monster's industry-leading products and services, visit www.monster.com. More information about Monster Worldwide is available at http://www.about-monster.com.

About The San Diego Union-Tribune and SignOn San Diego

The San Diego Union-Tribune, LLC, is San Diego County’s leading local media company, with products reaching 57 percent of all San Diego adults in a given week, which equates to more than 1.3 million San Diegans. In 2009, The San Diego Union-Tribune won its second Pulitzer Prize, which was awarded to Steve Breen for his editorial cartoons. In 2009, the Union-Tribune also earned the first place award from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for General Excellence among major California dailies in 2008. The newspaper has a late week circulation of 282,175, with more than 672,000 daily readers; Sunday circulation is 309,571, with readership of more than 875,000.

The Union-Tribune’s Web site, SignOn San Diego, is the leading online source for local news, entertainment information and classified advertising in San Diego, with more than 31 million page views and 2.6 million unique users in a typical month. Other products include Enlace, the weekly Spanish-language news publication with the largest distribution in San Diego County.

(The San Diego Union-Tribune circulation, readership and online figures are based on information from the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Source: As filed with the Audit Bureau of Circulations for the September 2009 Publisher’s Statement.)