— Archive for April, 2010 —

• A favor to ask

  *** From my weekly newsletter to TheLadders.com subscribers *** Last week, I took you on a photographic tour of TheLadders.com headquarters in New York City. This week, I’d like to ask a favor: Would you mind sending us a photo of you? The hard-working people you saw last week spend all their time here at the office trying to find ways to help get you hired. And the internet is a fantastic medium for enabling them to communicate with you and professionals like you all over the country. But the challenge is: we don’t get to see our customers every day. And we’d sure like to! It’s really quite meaningful for our people to see your faces and read your stories — it makes the long hours worthwhile, and it’s a great reminder of the payoff for us (and for you) when we are successful at helping you find a [...]

  Apr 30

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• Who are the people behind TheLadders.com?

  *** From my weekly newsletter to TheLadders.com subscribers *** So who are the people behind TheLadders.com? We’re blessed with an outstanding Board of Directors and Management Team, but most importantly, we have over 300 employees here at our New York City headquarters that are incredibly passionate about helping you find your next job. This week, I want to take you “behind the scenes” to meet those people. So I got together with my colleague Gennady, who is an excellent photographer, and took a few pictures around TheLadders.com building to share with you who it is that cares so very much about your success. This is the first view that many people get of TheLadders — Ana Nicole, Angela, and Marina work in recruiting and help us hire the excellent team here at TheLadders.com. The front door of TheLadders building in Manhattan… …leads you to the lobby. Peter is on the [...]

  Apr 23

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• How do you sound on the phone?

  The phone is a critical tool in the job hunt — do you know how you sound on it? Sure, it’s pretty straightforward — you pick it up, punch some numbers in and talk on it. You’ve been doing it your whole life, so there’s nothing special about using it in the job search. Right? Well, that’s not actually the case. Because how you communicate on the phone — what you say and especially how you say it — becomes the basis for whether or not you make it to the next stage in the interview process. How you use your time on the phone with the HR person, the recruiter or the hiring manager is actually pretty critical. If you talk on the phone for a living — if you’re in sales or corporate communications — a lot of this advice comes as part of your job. But if [...]

  Apr 18

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• Are you ‘Employed but looking?’

  Balancing work, family and friends is tough enough without throwing a job hunt on top of it. Your schedule is already packed and now you’re supposed to add researching and following up on job opportunities into the mix? That’s a pretty tall order. So here’s what we’ve done at TheLadders to make your search for a high-end job easier when it comes to research, tools, resume, and understanding the hunt. Research — cutting out the busy work Yes, with an infinite amount of time, you could use the internet to find the names of all the companies who might have jobs for somebody like you, surf their websites, follow up on the phone, and keep an active eye on what’s new. But who has an infinite amount of time? We thought that was too much work to ask of busy professionals. So what we do at TheLadders is call recruiters [...]

  Apr 11

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• Who Got Hired?

  *** From my weekly newsletter to TheLadders.com subscribers *** Readers, the employment market is climbing back and your fellow subscribers are landing more and more jobs each month. While I can’t include all of the positions accepted last month here at TheLadders, here’s a selection of 50 of the job titles and salaries of people who found their jobs through TheLadders in the month of March: Title Salary 1. Account Director $150K 2. Account Executive $105K 3. Assistant to the President $135K 4. CEO $410K 5. CFO $175K 6. Commercial Development Manager $115K 7. Controller $125K 8. COO $110K 9. Data Manager $105K 10. Digital Sales Manager $120K 11. Director of Business Development $150K 12. Director of Customer Care $110K 13. Director of Engineering $120K 14. Director of Engineering $130K 15. Director of Finance $135K 16. Director of HR and Mission Integration $110K 17. Director of IT $145K 18. Director [...]

  Apr 2

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