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For the past eight years, it has been my passion to educate professionals on the job search process. It may sound cliché, but I truly enjoy teaching people the “tricks of the trade” to land them the job they want.

I’ve done everything from one-on-one career coaching, to hosting networking mixers with job seekers and recruiters, to giving presentations and speaking on panels to groups of professionals looking to make a career change.

So, when CBS New York asked to me to provide job-seeking advice for the “lazy days of summer,” I was absolutely thrilled about the opportunity to share my insights with such a large audience!

During the interview I explained how to execute a successful job search in today’s market, and ways to differentiate yourself from the competition during the “lazy days of summer.”

For all of those in the New York area, tune in to CBS New York (channel 2) today at 5 p.m. to learn how you can gain a competitive edge. For everyone else, please visit The Career Chronicles on Monday to watch the segment online.

Amanda Augustine is the Job Search Expert at TheLadders. Always on the go at work and away, Amanda trains and competes in races and triathlons in her spare time.

We live in a mobile world where business never stops. Most of us read emails, send texts, and engage with coworkers, friends and family on our mobile devices. It’s easy. It’s fast. It’s makes us more productive wherever we are.

So why are recruiters still reduced to staring at their monitors as they try to find the perfect candidate?

We asked our product and development teams that same question. During a “hackathon,” a few of them answered it: Recruiters can go mobile, too. With a lot of hard work, a mobile app was born.

Today, TheLadders is proud to launch our first mobile app for recruiters: “Recruitable™.”

TheLadders Recruitable mobile app will instantly connect recruiters to fresh “recruitable” candidates that match their job posts, so recruiters can contact great candidates instantly, wherever they are.

This is great for TheLadders recruiters and job seekers alike. It means more frequent—and faster—connections.

(For now, Recruitable is only for recruiters on TheLadders who have a full RecruiterLicense, and only available for the iPhone. Download Recruitable from the app store now.)

So what does Recruitable bring to the table for recruiters?

Instant notification of great candidates.
We spend a great deal of time away from our desk: waiting for the next train, buying special order lattes, or jumping between meetings. Recruitable aims to make these moments more useful.

Recruitable compares every new candidate who joins TheLadders to a recruiter’s existing job posts, and immediately sends the recruiter a push notification when there’s a match. Recruiters don’t need to keep checking email or even run a search. Recruitable simply hands them great candidates.

Key candidate info.
Recruitable provides the candidate’s name, location, title, company, and dates of current and previous roles. According to our recent eye-tracking study, that’s what recruiters need to make a decision on whether or not to connect with a candidate.

Recruiters quickly see new matches for their open positions, and job seekers are given a jump start on a job. Win, win.

Instant communication.
First impressions are important, but being first is more important. Recruitable gives recruiters the chance to send a personalized message to matching candidates at the moment they join TheLadders. That means both the job seeker and recruiter have a competitive edge.

We’re excited about Recruitable. We can’t wait to help both recruiters and job seekers find the right match, at any time.

Download Recruitable from the app store now or read the press release.

Dan Logan is a Product Marketing Manager at TheLadders. As a frequent host of company meetings, he’s used to answering questions and keeping up with industry trends. He also lives in Brooklyn… and loves it.

On Wednesday, I was proud to take part in a very special roundtable at the NYSE Euronext office called 2012 Plan for Growth. This marked the first time NYSE sought insights from private companies and brought together a handful of CEOs from multiple industries and regions to share their ideas and strategies for growth.

My peers revealed how they are gearing up for 2012 and beyond and overcoming economic setbacks while maneuvering the political and regulatory obstacles.

Take a look at the full report highlighting some key insights and information here: Click here

The roundtable attendees included:

Duncan Niederauer – CEO, NYSE Euronext

Justin Brownhill – Co-Founder and CEO, The Receivables Exchange LLC

Joseph Ficalora – President and CEO, New York Community Bancorp

Nicholas T. Pinchuk – Chairman, President and CEO, Snap-On Inc.

Carley Roney – Co-Founder and Editor in Chief, XO Group Inc.

NV “Tiger” Tyagarajan – President and CEO, Genpact Ltd.

You will be able to read about our views and plan in the February issue for the NYSE magazine and, for the lucky ones who will be attending Davos 2012, you will get to watch our video there.

In the meantime, you can watch the video of Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway and me as we discuss job creation, entrepreneurship and next-generation CEOs.

Best of luck to you in your own plans for growth in 2012.

Alex Douzet is Co-Founder and President of TheLadders.com. In this role, Alex is responsible for global business operations, product development, and helping to lead the company’s ongoing global expansion.

As PR Manager here at TheLadders, I deal with a lot of questions each day. “What is TheLadders?” “How many employees do you have?” “What exactly do you do all day?” But the most significant question I get, the one that ties back for our entire raison d’etre, is, “How many job seekers do you really help?”

Searching for a job is an emotional process – it’s not like buying a pair of shoes. The transaction isn’t finite. While many people (especially me) are passionate about their shoes, if you get the wrong pair, it’s probably not going to alter the course of your future. Our customers are making a decision that affects whether or not they can pay the mortgage next month or if they need to pack up and move their family across the country.

I work with 400 talented people, but some of those I admire most are the members of our Job Search Support Center – they are in the trenches each day loving our customers and helping them deal with significant, life-changing experiences. Our members tell us every day about the value we add to their job search. To quantify just how many people we’ve touched we turned to an external authority and one of the world’s leading market-research firms, Harris Interactive. New research released today by Harris Interactive and TheLadders.com shows that over half a million $100K+ job seekers used TheLadders.com to find a new position in 2010.

You can read the entire press release here, but don’t just take it from us. Take a look below to hear Carolina, a satisfied customer of TheLadders, tell you her success story in her own words.

Check back here and on our Facebook page each week for great new stories about how we are helping to match the right person with the right job.

Dara Cothran is PR Manager at TheLadders.com. She’s a self-proclaimed media junkie and probably the last person in the office who needs another cup of coffee – but she’ll drink one anyway.

Last week was a busy one for us here at TheLadders: We launched our brand-new “Mobile Inbox.” We know it’s not easy to hunt for a job while you’re on the job, so with our new “Mobile Inbox” job seekers can connect with recruiters and hiring managers through their mobile phone. Check out the full announcement below:

TheLadders.com Launches ‘Mobile Inbox’ Allowing Job Seekers to Connect with Recruiters and Hiring Managers While On-The-Go

A new tool for executives intent on finding a new job

NEW YORK – (May 3, 2011) – TheLadders.com, the leading recruitment solution for professional talent ($100K+), provides job seekers a seamless way to connect with recruiters and hiring managers through their mobile phone with “Mobile Inbox.”

“Searching for a job is a full-time commitment, but many job seekers have to put their efforts on hold while they are at work or away from their home computer,” says Marc Cenedella, Founder and CEO of TheLadders.com. “Mobile Inbox provides members with instant and continuous connectivity wherever they are.”

Mobile Inbox is the latest in a series of product releases geared towards enabling better and more productive connections between recruiters, hiring managers and job seekers, and minimizing the black hole that plagues and frustrates many job seekers during their search. Within the last year, the launch of My Pipeline, Follow Recruiter and 1-click communications have made great strides in improving job search efficiency.

Follow Recruiter enables job seekers to “follow” recruiters, who in turn can deliver personalized messages and job related information via My Pipeline to a warm pool of prescreened job seekers they know are engaged and interested in their content. The services have been well received – around 575 thousand hiring alert emails are sent from recruiters to job seekers each week and the open rate for hiring alerts or news issued via My Pipeline is 43 percent, almost double the industry average for marketing communications.[1] Recruiters who use My Pipeline to issue hiring alerts find that they receive 30 percent more applications for a position.

In addition to this year’s new product launches, TheLadders revamped on-site communication to allow recruiters and job seekers to make 1-click connections. This abbreviated process more accurately reflects how 2-way communication has evolved. Short and to-the-point communications similar to text messages and Tweets are preferred over longer form email with subject line. Feedback on TheLadders indicates that job seekers, recruiters and hiring managers prefer the faster, more efficient 1-click communications process.

“As the online job market changes, and it becomes easier for job seekers to find and apply to job listings, recruiters are seeing an influx of applications creating what is commonly referred to as the ‘black hole,’” says Eric Burd, Vice President of Product at TheLadders.com. “Our focus is on improving the connection between job seekers and recruiters, making for a more productive hiring process.”

Dara Cothran is PR Manager at TheLadders.com.