Wow! We have come a long way. This week, TheLadders surpassed five million members. That’s five million people that we are helping with their job search. We work to help these members find their next calling in life however we can, whether it’s through our job matching expertise, our personalized products and services or our world class career advice.
We certainly have come a long way as a company and have a lot to be proud of. When I started at TheLadders in 2004, we had just reached 9,000 members. Since then, not only have we grown our member base to 5 million, we’ve expanded to all professional level jobs and have grown our jobs onsite by 3x just in the last 6 months alone. We’ve attracted over 17,000 new recruiters to our site to connect with job seekers and launched countless products and features for users to take advantage of during their job search.
I’m proud to be part of a company committed to finding the right person for the right job – and helping so many members move their careers forward. Great job, team!
Leslie Semegran is Vice President of Marketing and Engagement and has been with TheLadders since 2004, in various capacities across Marketing and Sales. When she’s not endlessly searching for ways to engage and help members, she’s at home running around after her nine-month-old daughter.
When we think about Valentine’s Day, romantic images of chocolates, flowers, and candlelit dinners may come to mind. However, being happy in the workplace may just be our greatest gift. In fact, only 12% of Americans have found the right corporate chemistry and are “really happy with this job,” according to a new study we’ve conducted. Of the 255,000 job seekers surveyed, an astonishing 88% confirmed varying degrees of dissatisfaction with their workplace.
In the poll — which is illustrated by our awesome new infographic — 61.3% of job seekers who were asked to describe the way they feel about their current job admitted they are ‘actively looking for a next job.’ Another 19.0% claimed their ‘job isn’t awful, but not great,’ and 3.9% ‘don’t know how much more of this gig can be tolerated.’ The most unhappy? Unfortunately, 4.1% ‘want out of this job now.’ Talk about a bad romance.
Whether in your love life or in your work life, finding the right match is all about chemistry, and feeling motivated and appreciated in the workplace is paramount for being successful in your career and life. That’s why we suggest workplace satisfaction be determined by the following factors: corporate culture, opportunity for growth, sense of challenge, work-life balance, and compensation package.
That’s why we come to work every day: to help professionals find the right job matches, so their story can have a happy ending.
Lisa Hagendorf is the Director of Public Relations for TheLadders where she is a huge ambassador of the brand in the office. At the gym. And on the street. She just can’t stop talking about TheLadders. Ever.
“Employ Humanity.” It’s not just a phrase we throw around. It’s painted and posted on the walls in TheLadders’ SoHo offices. It’s a philosophy that lives in our genetic makeup. It’s why we do what we do. And this weekend, more than a dozen volunteers lived that philosophy at our first ever Career Boot Camp event hosted by StreetWise Partners.
StreetWise Partners provides job-skills training and career mentoring for highly-motivated candidates facing multiple employment barriers. Seventy StreetWise mentors and trainees took part in a half-day event, which supported talent and economic growth in New York City. TheLadders best-in-class job matching service and content is a perfect fit for StreetWise and their mission! The day kicked off with a panel presentation comprised of TheLadders executives Alex Douzet and Ware Sykes, and StreetWise board members Orlando Ashford and Singleton Beato. After the panel, career advisors and resume writers from TheLadders conducted workshops for StreetWise participants on personal branding, effective networking and job applications.
We’re looking forward to more events with StreetWise and continuing this important and inspiring partnership. We’re also especially proud to support StreetWise and their ongoing mission. Together, we hope to one day “Employ Humanity.”
You can learn more about StreetWise Partners and TheLadders here.
Lou Ciniglia is the Enterprise Sales Manager at TheLadders.com. He has seven years of experience in recruitment services. His wife is a recruiter. His friends are recruiters. He talks to recruiters all day, every day. Lou loves recruitment.
The Ladders Signature is a six-month program that is proven to help professionals find the next step in their career. Selected participants who actively engage in all components of the Signature program are guaranteed a job offer or their money back.
“I have landed my dream job!!!! I am so grateful for your team and my resume writer! My resume and cover letter stood out among the crowd!"... "If you are out there virtually and have reached the glass ceiling at your company or you are out of work and looking for a job, make the investment in joining the Ladders.com and paying for the additional service to have their set of professional resume writers re-write your resume. You know you are amazing, so let their experts create a resume that showcases your expertise. Don't let your ho-hum resume cost you the opportunity to land your dream job.”
All the employees from TheLadders would like to wish everyone a Happy 2012. Please remember to visit us here at blog.theladders.com to discover the great stories from inside our company. And remember to visit recruitblog.theladders.com for unique content specifically geared for recruiters and HR professionals. We’re prepared to make our 2012 a big year for TheLadders, and we’re ready to help you make 2012 the year of your next great career move.
“You never know how ineffective your resume really is until you've put it in the hands of professional resume writer. When you returned the first draft, my mouth dropped. I was so impressed by the quality, the economy of words, even the formatting! The way you were able to boil down my entire 15-year career into a tight, 1 1/2 page gem, well, I could have cried. I thought, "How many opportunities did I miss because my resume was so poorly written?" And I'm a copywriter, for heaven's sake!"
“Bragging is not my strong suit.” As a Professional Resume Writer, it’s the most common refrain I hear from members within the first few days of working together. The second is “I’ve never worked with a resume writer before.”
And that’s OK.
Because we’re here to help! A Professional Resume Writer knows how to coax information out of the shyest of members and can sift through pages of work history to find the most valuable points to include for our more loquacious ones. The result is a document that presents members in a whole new light, and often creates a competitive mental edge in the job search as members’ self-perception aligns to match their new resume.
Watching members’ confidence blossom when they get their new resume is my favorite part of the job. Often the physical appearance of the document undergoes the most concrete transformation: slap-dash paragraphs, long lists of bullets, and haphazard spacing are streamlined and organized into visually inviting text with polished verbiage and clean, sophisticated formats. The mental shift it inspires is best described by our own members. A few recent reactions from the Inboxes of the resume team include:
“Very impressive – I wonder who that guy is? Seriously, that looks very good.” – Rick F.
“Wonderful! I just cannot get over how the presentation changes the image of me. Thank you.” – Mary J.
“It’s been refreshing to see how a proper resume and cover letter are composed – I was definitely not with the times.” – Jose D.
“I can’t wait to upload this for the recruiters to see. You really helped me to organize my career in a way that is relevant to my experience.” – Janet T.
“You did an outstanding job. Writing a resume is a unique talent.” – Anonymous
“Thank you for transforming my lackluster resume into a professional and first class document.” – Anonymous
Just like a good haircut can make anyone stand a little taller and smile a little wider, a good resume can give job seekers the confidence boost they need to apply to a job that’s a bit of a “reach” and walk into an interview knowing that they have already put their best foot forward. Through our weekly posts, the Resume Team looks forward to illuminating the resume writing process and sharing more of our members’ success stories.
Meredith Spencer is Academy Certified Resume Writer and Certified Professional Resume Writer who specializes in technology industry resumes.
Leslie Semegran is Vice President of Marketing and Engagement and has been with TheLadders since 2004, in various capacities across Marketing and Sales. When she’s not endlessly searching for ways to engage and help members, she’s at home running around after her nine-month-old daughter.
