Growth in European Online Recruitment at 2%, According to the Monster Employment Index

Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: MWW):

July 2012 Index Highlights:

• The Monster Employment Index Europe demonstrates two percent growth year-over-year in July, relatively consistent with June´s one percent rise
• Germany continues to lead all regions at 13 percent growth, while Sweden remains flat
• The Netherlands, France, Italy, Belgium and UK all report reduced demand in online recruitment activity year-over-year
• Environment, architecture, urbanism (up 16 percent) remains the leading growth sector for the third consecutive month while Education (up 11 percent) reports increased annual growth and places second in the Index
• Arts, entertainment, sports, leisure remains at the bottom of July´s Index and is joined by Banking, finance insurance which registers the same rate of annual decline in online hiring activity

The Monster Employment Index Europe is a monthly gauge of online job posting activity based on a real-time review of millions of employer job opportunities culled from a large representative selection of career web sites and online job listings across Europe. The Index does not reflect the trend of any one advertiser or source, but is an aggregate measure of the change in job listings across the industry.

"Germany remains the growth driver of online recruitment across Europe, providing buoyancy to an otherwise muted labour market," commented Alan Townsend, Vice President of Sales Readiness and Business Operations for Monster Europe. "However, while the uncertain outlook of the EuroZone continues to impact recruitment levels, it is encouraging to see over half of industries remain positive in July, with sectors such as architecture, education and manufacturing seeing stronger demand."

Monster Employment Index Europe results for the past 18 months are as follows:

Industry Year-over-year Trends: 15 of the 24 industry sectors monitored by the Index in July exhibited positive annual growth trends.

• Environment, architecture and urbanism (up 16 percent) led all industries by measure of annual growth for the third consecutive month in July
• Education, training, library (up 11 percent) continued to report increased opportunities in online recruitment compared to year-ago levels, extending a positive growth trend that began in February
• The Real Estate sector (up nine percent) reported a solid increase in online hiring activity for the third consecutive month and remained in the top five Index rankings
• Public sector, defence, community (down one percent) saw a slight uptick in annual online recruitment compared to last month´s five percent decline and moved up the Index after placing at the bottom of June´s Index rankings
• Banking, finance, insurance (down four percent) saw further reductions in online recruitment in July and joined Arts, entertainment, sports, leisure (down four percent) as the industries to report the lowest demand

Occupation Year-over-year Trends: Six of the nine occupational groups monitored by the Index in July exhibited positive growth trends.

• This month Plant and machine operators and assemblers (up eight percent) took the lead by measure of annual growth with a significant increase compared to the one percent growth measured in June
• Technicians and associate professionals (up six percent) also noted improved growth, where annual online recruitment has increased across this sector for the past 28 months
• Managers (down five percent) continued a four month consecutive decline in online recruitment and matched its annual rate of growth recorded in June, placing bottom of the Index

The full monthly Monster Employment Index reports for Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom will be made available on Tuesday, 14 August at 06:00 CET at:
about-monster.com/employment/index/17.

Data for the month of August 2012 will be released on September 7th, 2012.

By Region

By Industry

Industry		Jul 11		Aug 11		Sep 11		Oct 11		Nov 11		Dec 11		Jan 12		Feb 12		Mar 12		Apr 12		May 12		Jun 12		Jul 12		Y-O-Y GROWTH
Accounting, audit, taxes		101		98		97		99		99		98		93		100		101		102		103		100		101		0%
Administrative, organisation		109		112		110		111		111		111		104		112		113		112		111		111		110		1%
Agriculture, fishing and forestry		134		133		130		124		123		117		104		121		133		146		133		134		137		2%
Arts, entertainment, sports, leisure		116		113		107		108		110		109		102		110		114		113		112		113		111		-4%
Automotive		126		132		128		124		124		114		109		127		128		129		129		133		137		9%
Banking, finance, insurance		89		88		86		87		87		87		82		86		88		88		86		87		85		-4%
Construction and extraction		140		144		142		138		137		130		122		132		136		139		140		140		142		1%
Education, training and library		218		208		191		205		202		218		191		214		221		229		242		254		242		11%
Engineering		164		167		168		170		172		172		158		169		173		172		169		171		172		5%
Environment, architecture and urbanism		102		102		101		102		103		107		100		111		113		110		118		121		118		16%
Healthcare, social work		633		624		625		594		628		613		573		635		653		661		644		643		647		2%
Hospitality and tourism		244		247		256		252		251		238		221		242		251		272		277		271		261		7%
HR		95		95		94		94		94		94		91		96		97		97		97		94		93		-2%
IT		103		101		99		101		103		102		97		105		109		108		106		104		105		2%
Legal		117		117		114		116		118		112		111		117		120		120		123		118		118		1%
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