Monster Hires Jeannine Carter as Vice President/General Manager of Monster Diversity and Inclusion

MAYNARD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 2003-- Monster(R), the leading global online careers property and flagship brand of Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: MNST), today announced that Jeannine Carter has been named Vice President/General Manager of Monster Diversity and Inclusion. In this role, she will oversee all operational aspects of the Diversity and Inclusion business segment, including business development, as well as sales and marketing strategies.

Ms. Carter has been a practitioner in the diversity field for over a decade. She has helped numerous companies implement their cultural change efforts by providing strategic organizational diversity consulting services. Her diversity experience includes managing large organizational diversity initiatives; providing consulting services to all levels of organizations; conducting cultural assessments; and conducting diversity training for a variety of profit and non-profit organizations across several industries. At Monster, Ms. Carter will be responsible for continuing the development of the Diversity and Inclusion community for job seekers, while providing valuable services and tools to employers to enhance the quality of their workforce.

Accessible via Monster's Career Center (http://content.monster.com/), Monster's Diversity and Inclusion community provides job seekers a wide range of career offerings, including useful links, career advice articles, profiles of diversity advocates and professionals, newsletters, moderated message boards on wide-ranging diversity topics and issues, and interactive tools and services focused on each of the nine different Diversity and Inclusion categories. In addition, Monster's Diversity and Inclusion community is also offered to job seekers on an expansive network of alliance partner websites, providing greater access for qualified job seekers and a broader reach for employers who post jobs.

"Monster is proud to have Jeannine join our sales management team. She brings a wealth of knowledge in the diversity field and will provide value not only to our customers, but also to our diverse job seeker audience," said Steve Pogorzelski, President, Monster North America. "Jeannine will help Monster's goal of meeting our customers' needs by delivering tools and services that provide value to their recruitment efforts."

"My role with Monster presents an exciting new opportunity for me, as working in the area of diversity and multi-culturalism has been a lifelong passion of mine. Managing Monster Diversity and Inclusion will enable me to extend that passion through Monster, by bringing diversity and inclusion programs and services to millions of job seekers and thousands of leading companies nationwide," said Jeannine Carter, VP/GM Diversity and Inclusion, Monster. "The opportunity in front of us is vast, and Monster is in a position to offer many valuable tools to the marketplace."

Corporate Biography for Jeannine Carter

Ms. Carter was previously Senior Manager, Human Capital Advisory Services with Deloitte & Touche LLP, where she provided consulting services including the development of HR strategies, organizational performance, leadership development, managing cultural change and diversity in a variety of industries. Prior to Deloitte & Touche LLP, Ms. Carter was Managing Director for a global diversity consulting firm. Ms. Carter held previous marketing and business development roles with Bea Young Associates and IBM Corporation.

She holds a Masters in Management from Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where she served as the Chairperson for the Council on Diversity, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Stanford University. Carter was also nominated into the International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women in 1999, 2000 and 2001.

About Monster

Monster, headquartered in Maynard, Mass., is the leading global careers website, recording over 45.9 million unique visits during the month of June 2003 according to independent research conducted by I/PRO. Monster connects the most progressive companies with the most qualified career-minded individuals, offering innovative technology and superior services that give them more control over the recruiting process. The Monster global network consists of local content and language sites in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium, Singapore, Hong Kong, France, Scotland, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Luxembourg, India, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, and Finland. Monster is the official online career management services sponsor of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games and 2002 and 2004 U.S. Olympic Teams. More information about Monster is available at www.monster.com or by calling 1-800-MONSTER.

About Monster Worldwide

Founded in 1967, Monster Worldwide, Inc. (formerly TMP Worldwide Inc.) is the online recruitment leader and the parent company of Monster, the leading global careers website. Headquartered in New York with approximately 4,500 employees in 19 countries, Monster Worldwide is also the world's largest Recruitment Advertising agency network, the world's largest Yellow Pages advertising agency and a provider of direct marketing services. The Company's clients include more than 90 of the FORTUNE 100 and more than 490 of the FORTUNE 500 companies. Monster Worldwide (NASDAQ: MNST - News) is a member of the S&P 500 Index. More information about Monster Worldwide is available at www.monsterworldwide.com.

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