Monster slain down under

Monster.com.au, a joint venture with NineMSN, which is in turn a joint venture between Microsoft and Kerry Packer's PBL, will close its doors "sooner rather than later", ZDNet Australia  has been told.

The portal had been losing AU$6 million a year, a situation the company's partners could no longer tolerate. The company's 40 staff will lose their jobs -- however employee entitlements will be paid in full, sources claim.

Earlier this year Monster announced it had turned things around through an advertising campaign, however web traffic analysts questioned the company's claimed visitor increases.

Media representatives from Monster were not available for comment, and PBL -- which forged its alliance with the jobs portal in 2000 -- has refused to even confirm the shut-down.

The closure follows the re-launch of News Corporation's CareerOne jobs portal last week. The publishing giant will follow in Fairfax's footsteps by publishing the employment sections of over 100 of its newspapers under the CareerOne brand.

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1. Monster staff were told yesterday that there last day was Friday. Anonymous -- 30/07/03

   Monster staff were told yesterday that there last day was Friday.

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2. what does this mean for UniSA students, who use Monster to help (?) students find work? what a waste of our money this is for us. Anonymous -- 30/07/03

   what does this mean for UniSA students, who use Monster to help (?) students find work?
   
   what a waste of our money this is for us.

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3. plz send me any job opppurtunities acocrding to my profile i'm posting here b'cz till now no response from u for my application. MY RESUME: Rama Choudary (Software Engineer) Phone : 03-22840073 rama@tigerflyap.com Rama Choudary -- 30/09/03

   plz send me any job opppurtunities acocrding to my profile i'm posting here b'cz till now no response from u for my application.
   MY RESUME:
   
   Rama Choudary
   (Software Engineer)
   Phone : 03-22840073
   rama@tigerflyap.com
   
   EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:
   
    2 plus years of professional IT experience as Software Engineer in the reputed organizations.
    Expertise in Design and Development of Relational and Dimensional database applications.
    Hands on experience in all aspects of Software programming.
    Evolutes my role according to Project Requirements
    Designing forms and Documentation.
    Technical writing.
    An excellent and result oriented team member with the ability to perform individually, to learn and implement latest technology, strong inter-personnel skills, hard working and high level of motivation
   
   PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
   
    Working as a software programmer at TIGERFLY ASIA PACIFIC.COM Sdn. Bhd.
   
    Worked as a software engineer and Faculty in NIIT Hyderabad.
   
   QUALIFICATIONS:
   
    Master Of Computer Applications University of Hyderabad (Osmania University)
   Hyderabad, India.
   
   TECHNICAL SKILLS:
   
   Operating System : Windows 9x, ME, XP,NT & 2000
   Programming languages : C, C++, Java, Oracle 8.0, HTML,VB,.Net
   Web Technologies : HTML, Java Script.
   DataBase : Oracle, MS-Access.
   Web Servers : Javaweb Server 2.0.
   
   ACADEMIC PROJECT : Generation of Dispatch Linked Invoice
   
   Description:
   
   This project was done in the partial fulfillment of requirements for the award of Master Of
   Computer Applications. This project deals with generation of the Dispatch linked Invoice
   for the given loading number. This application is completely depended on various
   options like Commercial business business documents. The transactions are based
   right from the packaging and dispatches too.
   
   EXPERIENCE PROFILE:
   
   Project # 1
   
   Project Name : Banking System.
   Platform : Oracle8i.
   Clint : SBH Bank Hyderabad
   Role : Programmer
   
   Description:
   
   As a Software Engineer, was apart of team in development of the application which is for the complete maintenance of the banking transactions like deposits, with draws, cheque maintenance, daily reports and monthly reports. The account maintenance is also being done. Every month, the Account statement is generated depending on the opening balance and closing balances, and also depends on the transactions done by the Account Holder.
   
   Responsibilities:
   
    User documentation.
    Coding & Testing.
    Training of freshly inducted team members.
    Communication with the client.
   
   Project # 2
   
   Project : Integrated Development Environment for COBOL
   Platform : C
   Client : Orbit Hyderabad
   Role : Team member
   
   Description:
   As a Software Engineer, was involved in the development of the Software which is
   developed in C, which enables the user to write programs for COBOL? It helps in getting
   To the COBOL help and also sets to the environment programming for COBOL. It allows
   the user to set the semantics required for the COBOL programs.
   
   Responsibilities:
   
    Was also involved in preparing the documentation of the module
    Business requirements study and information Analysis. Design of Dimensional/ Logical Data models.
    Was involved in analyzing and designing of the Oracle database.
    Reviews of change requests handled by other team members
    Communication with the client via mails and also teleconferencing
   
   Project # 3
   
   Proje

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