Matt Anchin, a top communications and marketing exec for Nielsen and American Express, has landed the top corporate communications slot at online job site Monster, which is up for sale under parent Monster Worldwide.

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Janet Swaysland left the SVP, global comms. and social media slot at Maynard, Mass.-based Monster in November 2011.

Anchin was senior VP, global marketing and communications slot at Nielsen. At Monster, he heads corporate comms., business and consumer media relations and social media under CMO Ted Gilvar.

He was previously VP of online communications at AmEx and held various communications slots at IBM in an eight-year career there.

Monster parent Monster Worldwide is pursuing a sale after hiring advisors in March 2012. Net loss for the fourth quarter of 2012 was $73M on revenue of $211.2M, down 10 percent.