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Show Meet Jeff Tayl Of Monster.com's CEO, DJ and Water-skie- r By January Gill anything Doesweb career 1 faze Jeff Taylor? The hyperkinetic chief executive behemoth Monster.com faces a slowdown in fall by the wayside. How does the economy as other the CEO of this "knowledge-based- " company have time to run a still have time and to be a disc jockey? job search empire If he's exhausted, Taylor doesn't let on. Spirits and good nature intact, he is driving as hard as ever to make Monster.com one of the world's great service companies. And he isn't letting all g about Monster's future get him down. With a the marketing budget of roughly $200 million for 2001 , Monster has s have been able to do: show a profit. done what few "We're doing extremely well," says Taylor, "especially in different sectors with the lowest unemployment in history. We've been virtually unaffected. We're a profitable Internet company." t. So how did Taylor do it? He started his career at dot-bom- 7i? . iiiY - V hand-wringin- dot-com- m 14 ! UMass-Amhers- job that a typical college student works and he's done it. "I wish had from flipping pizzas to disc jockey gone to class. pretty much did everything but go to class." Taylor ran The Collegian, the campus newspaper. He was also a tour guide for the university and was vice president and president of a fraterplan at UMass and nity. Truth be told, Taylor was on the did not graduate. But he went back to school a few years later and You name a I I six-ye- ar received an executive MBA from Harvard Business School. t, Currently Taylor is finishing up what he started at and will graduate with a business degree in May 2001 . "I started five businesses at UMass. But at the same time have done a lot more hands-o- n learning through the years. Going to Harvard Business School, did an executive MBA program. Well, my own business actually changed a lot during the time was going to school. went back to school to prove that could learn UMass-Amhers- I I I I in a traditional environment I I'd obviously done reasonably well good idea," says Taylor. Started in 1994 as a job bulletin board, the company today posts nearly 400,000 job listings with 14 million unique visitors per month. To this day he uses markers in the shower to capture those early morning ideas still fresh from dreams. Monster.com's "Power job-sear- ch dry-era- Pack," according to Taylor, offers a very easy-to-u- se job search engine with a heavy rotation of If a resume is post- jobs. ed online, 100,000 employers and 275,000 recruiters will see it. "The beauty of the Job Search Agent is that a college student can post hisher resume, and get a response instantly from an employer ready to hire. I've seen it happen!" So what's a multi- " 1 a business or entrepreneurial environment. What I've discovered there's a real opportunity to take some of what learned in the cases at Harvard and apply them directly to this business." The idea for Monster.com came to him in a dream in December 1993. "The shortest distance between two points is a 2 I steamtunnels.net from Jeff Taylor about to step into the real here are some career strateworld, gies to help you in your search: If you're Schedule informational interviews The best way to learn about a position or a company from the inside out Internships Try to have millionaire visionary who can't sit Make smart choices still to do? a disc jockey once Taylor, in local Boston area dance clubs, still DJs Monster.com's quarterly past March broke the 1 is, Tips g or 2 internships or volunteer stints under your belt before you leave college recruiting parties. This in a Job-Huntin- in Florida, he blimp waterskiing record set by Virgin CEO Richard .5-mi- le Branson, skiing for more than three miies behind the Monster.com blimp. se If 1 you're flipping pizza now, how will that help you down the road as you look for an office gig? Take a risk In this economy, people who show motivation and Internet prowess will do well in their career Want r Photos courtesy Monster.com i |