TheLadders and Marketing and Finance Jobs at Microsoft

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nate — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:24:34 GMT

you might look back in 30 years and $100K will look small

re: TheLadders and Marketing and Finance Jobs at Microsoft

HeatherLeigh — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 20:54:36 GMT

If any of these jobs are still posted then, I am in big trouble ; )

Seriously, it's not a matter of large or small. For TheLadders, it's about segmenting and screening (I'm sure they could say it better). My concern with putting the number out there is just about expectation setting.

re: TheLadders and Marketing and Finance Jobs at Microsoft

H. — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:50:50 GMT

It is really a lie about The Ladders. They advertise $100K jobs, but they do not screen the _recruiters_ who post these jobs. Some of these recruiters are only looking for people they can make a high commission off of, by referring them to companies that pay headhunting fees to recruiters.

I signed up to FinanceLadder and applied to over 60 jobs, but only 3 resumes actually went through to the companies that were advertising jobs! The recruiters never responded, even to acknowledge my application - I only got confirmations from The Ladders web site itself.

While I think The Ladders is a good idea, I believe the owners need to set up the web site so that resumes always go through directly to the company that is hiring, not a "middleman" who is "headhunting" for a profit for themselves. These middle people have no interest in actually getting jobs for people, only in collecting resumes so that they have someone on file six months later when they see an opportunity to make money for themselves. I will be taking my profile down this month and cancelling my membership on The Ladders, because it has been 7 months and there are only three occasions where I can even confirm whether there WAS an open job, at all.

re: TheLadders and Marketing and Finance Jobs at Microsoft

HeatherLeigh — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:01:05 GMT

Hmm, there must be some way fo ryou to give them this feedback. Is there a "contact us" link on their site?

re: TheLadders and Marketing and Finance Jobs at Microsoft

Charles — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:03:41 GMT

This is the first confirmation I have ever seen that recruiters post anything on The Ladders. About 99% of the time, the site merely reposts postings from other sites. It,s a web crawling engine. It makes more sense for H to use Google (sorry HeatherLeigh) to find the original posting. That eliminates the middleman.

re: TheLadders and Marketing and Finance Jobs at Microsoft

HeatherLeigh — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:18:17 GMT

I don't really agree with your characterization, especially since I have visited their HQ and have seen what they do. Candidates can think of them as a job aggregator if they like. Who wants to do an individual search for each company that interests them (and then have to search by job once they get there)? In my mind, it's about efficiency for the candidate.

Having said that, I encourage recruiters not to post their jobs there. More hires for us (and we make plenty of hires from TheLadders) :)