Bloggers blogging quickly
Joel Cheesman over at Cheesman's Online Recruitment Blog has a post on "Job boards behaving badly" that's a little off-base.
Now, I think Joel is just great, and one sharp cookie when it comes to SEO. So I wish he had done a little more research before posting negative stuff about us.
For the record, in order for an employer to use our service, they agree to the following:
"In accepting this Agreement, You also grant TheLadders.com and its affiliates the license to use, reproduce and communicate to the public and display the name and trademark of your organization and your status as a contributor of content to TheLadders.com."
In addition, I've checked with our marketing group and we are not now running any Google ads of the nature he suggests -- in fact, I'd asked about a week ago that we look into it because we're not.
So, legally speaking, Joel's assertions are not true.
But legalism is one thing. How are we doing at TheLadders.com as good neighbors and partners to our hiring companies?
Well, as it's always free to fill your $100K+ jobs at TheLadders.com, I think the price is right :) And we provide hiring firms and recruiters with the highest quality candidates because of the unique messaging, function-specific, and screened quality of our 560,000 subscribers.
So I think we're being a pretty good neighbor, too.
So both legally, and on a "good guy" basis, we're doing our absolute best here at TheLadders.com to help companies fill thier jobs, and I don't think Joel's post treats us fairly.
I'm all in favor of all sorts of different people helping companies fill their positions, but I don't think it's fair to try to build up your own business by (incorrectly) tearing down someone elses. That's just not nice.
So with all that, and knowing that Joel is generally a pretty fair and reasonable guy, I'm hoping he'll correct this misunderstanding on his blog quickly.
