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I've used it, did not pay for it, found it useless all I got for my trouble was a mailbox full of spam trying to get me to give them money. Any job board or service asking the job-seeker for money is useless. Think about it. If you are looking for an employee and posing a job ad would you want it to be on a board where only people who pay money can see it? You instantly miss out on 99.9% of the talent out there.
Not really, unless you're looking for a job in a market that you have zero connections in. Otherwise, LinkedIn has almost all of the same contacts/job available.
Remember, Ladders is a board for $100K+ jobs. Most of those are in Executive or Sales Professional roles, and are generally filled through networking anyway.
I agree with the other posters, it's not worth it. I paid for it for one month when I was laid off and dropped it. I did not see any job postings on The Ladders that weren't also on LinkedIn, Indeed or Dice. All the ladders did was try to get me to pay $400 for a resume service. My resume worked fine as it was.
I had it for free a while ago. I can't remember seeing any jobs I was interested in that I didn't find from another source.
This. If your field is fairly specialized, it's not difficult to use searches on free job sites to identify the employers associated with the job opportunities that the free version of The Ladders sends your way.
This. If your field is fairly specialized, it's not difficult to use searches on free job sites to identify the employers associated with the job opportunities that the free version of The Ladders sends your way.
Just to clarify, this wasn't a "free" version of the ladders. It was the full version, I just got it for free.
I used the pay version and found it valuable. The first thing you have to see is if your field is a match for the site. As others have mentioned it is primarily for $100K and up, executive level jobs. These jobs are in IT, HR, Ops and sales primarily. They aren't entry level and they aren't really tech oriented. I found lots of good operations positions and ultimately a position. While there were occasionally duplicate positions, much of what I found there were unique. I also got a lot of connections to recruiters through there. A similar place is NetShares, but I think its $40/month. If I was back in the job market, I'd restart LinkedIn and The Ladders on the first day of my search.
I think LinkedIn is much better. Once a job is available, usually, several recruiters will get it and they will start looking (LinkedIn is usually the first place they will look to source candidates).
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