TheLadders.com, Announces Contest for High-Level Employees in Need of Base-Level Help

Executive Job Search Service, TheLadders.com, Announces Contest for High-Level Employees in Need of Base-Level Help

One would assume that highly paid, top-level executives would have great resume writing skills to complement their impressive achievements. Not so says executive job search service, TheLadders.com.

Setting out to shed some light on the common mistakes that even the most seasoned job-hunters commonly make, TheLadders.com, www.theladders.com, a job search service for the $100k segment of the employment marketplace, announces its ìDoes My Resume Stink?î contest. Running now through, July 22, 2004, with the winner being announced on August 2, 2004, the contest combines brutal honesty with constructive criticism to provide a host of valuable insights.

ìHow many times in your life do you write a resume? Three? Maybe five?î asks TheLadders.com President and CEO Marc Cenedella. ìAs online recruiting continues to grow, placing a much more significant emphasis on the first line of communication, so many enormously well-qualified people are being overlooked based on lousy formatting and cumbersome wording. In the course of having some fun with this contest, we will show people that it is very common to make mistakes, but also very easy to avoid them by following some simple steps.î

TheLadders.com was founded by Marc Cenedella, the former Senior Vice President, Finance & Operations, at HotJobs.com, who shepherded that companyís sale to Yahoo!, Inc. (NASD: YHOO) in 2002. The ìDoes My Resume Stinkî contest is part of TheLadders.comís ongoing effort to educate senior-level executives on the opportunities, potential pitfalls and winning strategies in the online job-hunt. The winner of the contest ñ chosen to have the most representative example of what not to do when writing a resume ñ will receive a rewrite by a professional resume coach. Both before-and-after versions of the winning resume will be posted on TheLadders.com. Executives wishing to submit their resumes for review should e-mail them to stink@theladders.com before July 22, 2004.

TheLadders.com addresses the specialized needs of this exclusive slice of the market by turning the traditional recruitment business model upside down. Each month, the TheLadders.com team of experts reviews over 160,000 jobs to select more than 7,000 jobs for inclusion in their weekly newsletters. The company searches the Internet for job postings, or, alternatively, employers can list them free of charge ñ a critical difference from traditional job boards because it enables TheLadders.com to list every appropriate $100k job opening on the market, not just paid listings. This distinction allows TheLadders.com to filter out any questionable job listings that do not meet the companyís standards for credibility. TheLadders.com also does not charge a fee for its basic job leads newsletter for job seekers. Instead, it generates revenues by offering a premium service to job seekers, which includes a greater number of job listings, more detail, early delivery, and more features for $25 per month. TheLadders.comís premium service fee keeps unqualified candidates out of the applicant pool and, thus, encourages employers to look at TheLadders.com applicants first.