While we’re all enjoying this day off, Readers, I thought you’d like to get a behind-the-scenes look at the “Labor” that goes into your TheLadders.com subscription.

In addition to having the largest database of $100K+ jobs, the largest database of $100K+ recruiters, and the largest database of $100K+ candidates like you, at the very heart of TheLadders.com is our Community Team here in New York. These are the people that protect you from bad jobs and recruiters, do the sorting and filtering for you, answer your questions and comments, and strategize ways to make your $100K+ job hunt shorter, faster, and more efficient.

For example, did you know that every job at TheLadders.com has to be approved by two people before we let it on to the website?

Did you know that we similarly have two people screen every recruiter before we let them have access to TheLadders.com system?

And in order to keep the quality high, so recruiters will return again and again to TheLadders.com, we also screen every single resume when submitted to ensure that all candidates are appropriate for $100K+ jobs.

We got out our camera and walked around our Manhattan offices (yes, we do it all right here in the good ol’ U.S. of A.) to take pictures to share with you, Readers, so let’s take a look at the people behind these stats...


Here’s the Community Team, hard at work on a typical Monday.


Our Michael Wagner works the phones to get more jobs from hiring companies and recruiters for you.


Lots and lots of PowerPoints! Each contains the rules, requirements, and restrictions for posting and participating in a particular Ladder.


What happens when you click that button on the site indicating a job might be filled? Well, it goes into a long queue here at Headquarters, and we review each one to see if the job has been filled, and if we should therefore take it off the site.


When you click to “Live Chat,” you get direct access to a member of our Community Team here in New York City.


Three screens? Yes, three screens! It helps make analyzing and filtering jobs much easier, so that we can get them published on the site for you even faster.


This is our very own Matt Karp reviewing our “Five Flags” report. When you write in with your comment or query, we categorize each one to find out: what are the biggest five problems for our subscribers this week? That very helpful and useful feedback goes to our Product and Technology teams for speedy fixing.


Our “Two Rules” at TheLadders.com. We take seriously our responsibility to help you through your job hunt...

OK, folks, hope that was an informative tour of our Manhattan offices, and I trust you enjoyed this “behind the curtain” look at what your subscription dollars go towards.

Thanks and have a great week!