The Muse (formerly known as The Daily Muse) is an American career and employment website, founded by Kathryn Minshew, Alex Cavoulacos and Melissa McCreery. It provides career advice, plus detailed coverage of employers including behind-the-scenes videos of company headquarters and interviews with employees.
How is the Muse different?
The Muse is an agreeable and appealing website, with a very neat structure. But it has more to it than its look, it is like a pretty supermodel with personality and brains. The Muse, unlike other career sites, literally lets users have a look at prospective employer’s workplace, with photos showing the actual workplace. A USP that it can brag about!
What elevates the website?
Another distinguishing aspect of The Muse are the classes one can avail at Muse University to enhance the job search and career management skills. And the best part is, the classes are all free and delivered to inboxes! The Muse provides an exceedingly rich and deep amount of career content, much of which is personalized. It is well presented and refurbished daily. I doubt any other career site offers the quantity and quality of content that The Muse does. Ms Cavoulacos, one of the co-founders, says the site endeavours to make the content as genuine as possible by having trained freelancers capture and edit the video profiles under The Muse's direction, rather than the companies.
Lastly, The Muse also catalogues open jobs (including photos of the standard working environment attached). One can easily and effectively browse by market and job type for a desired job. Though majority of the positions are at start-ups and tech firms, you will also find a dash of companies like Goodwill and McKinsey. The majority of the jobs are entry and mid-level positions. Though The Muse is a bit biased toward new graduates, start-ups, and tech jobs in a few major markets (e.g. San Francisco/Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, London, and Chicago) it seems to be broadening their scope in recent months. Clients listed on its website include Gucci, Facebook, Pinterest, HBO etc. It maintains a team of more than 140 writers and its articles are syndicated on Forbes, The Huffington Post and other sites.
Conclusion
Going forward, The Muse hopes to expand geographically. "We have users in almost every city in the United States…but we don't have [job listings] in all those cities," Ms. Minshew says. TheMuse.com currently has companies with open jobs in more than 30 U.S. cities. As it continues to evolve I expect it will become much more comprehensive.