TheLadders.com Defines the Future of Online Recruiting

NEW YORK - TheLadders.com, the world’s leading online recruiting resource for $100,000 jobs, today announced the public launch of its latest product known as TheLadders Professional Network. Initially made available on a limited basis to subscribers of TheLadders.com in late December, TheLadders Professional Network has quickly earned accolades from both recruiters and job seekers. TheLadders Professional Network enables recruiters and job seekers to create profiles, search the network’s database and, notably, to send communication to each other, a first in online recruiting. Since its limited launch just a few short weeks ago, more than 500,000 searches have been successfully conducted in TheLadders Professional Network.

In addition to its utilization by more than 600,000 job seekers, TheLadders.com is the premier online destination for corporate and executive recruiters seeking qualified job candidates, with over 10,000 recruiters using the site. Unlike other vendors that charge recruiters hefty fees to post jobs, recruiters can greatly reduce their cost-per-hire by posting job openings to TheLadders.com at no charge. Additionally, recruiters are able to source skilled candidates suitable for their $100k job openings from TheLadders.com’s talented subscriber base, shortening their time to hire.

Marc Cenedella, founder and CEO of TheLadders.com, shared, At TheLadders.com, we are continually developing innovative technology to provide the best possible user experience for both our recruiter and job seeker members. TheLadders Professional Network reflects the depth of our R&D investment in advancing our goal, making TheLadders.com the best online recruiting resource in any market sector. Initial feedback from our members has been overwhelmingly positive and validates that we have truly defined the future of online recruiting, elevating the standard of effectiveness in online recruiting.

Unique to TheLadders Professional Network is the ability for both recruiters and job seekers to create their own bios, including information about contact options and experience. Recruiters and job seekers can search these bios to identify those individuals best suited to advance their objectives. Both groups can also easily send communications to each other through TheLadders Professional Network while controlling the detail and amount of information they want to share. To protect users’ privacy, job seekers can only search for recruiters, not other job seekers, and recruiters can search for job seekers but not for other recruiters.

Cenedella continued, Rather than merely pressing ’apply now’ and forwarding their resume to an unknown recruiter such as on other job search sites, our job seekers can identify recruiters associated with the job listings they want to apply for. Both recruiters and job seekers can save all searches - plus action items and task lists can be created on the individual’s dashboard. In fact, every individual can see how many times they were searched, what their pending actions items are, who is trying to contact them and when they have declined a connection.

In addition to saved searches, TheLadders Professional Network features search synonyms. For example, if a job seeker types VP, TheLadders Professional Network will also present matching jobs, such as vice president.

Cenedella concluded, TheLadders Professional Network is a secure online marketplace where buyers and sellers can connect while maintaining their preferred levels of privacy.