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Here's a great testimonial from a job seeker who found his job on TheLadders.com recently.

Two key points:

1) This person applied to the exact same job on Monster.com.
2) When he asked the recruiter about this oddity, the recruiter told him "said that they have a low-level person who sifts through the Monster stuff while she gets the Ladders ones directly. She said that Ladders submissions are always worth reading because they are always from qualified people."

Here's the whole email:

I recently accepted one of the first positions I applied to (about a monthago) and couldn't be more excited. It is worth noting that I had alreadyapplied for the same position on Monster, but hadn't received a call back. I asked the recruiter about this and she said that they have a low-level person who sifts through the Monster stuff while she gets the Ladders ones directly. She said that Ladders submissions are always worth reading because they are always from qualified people.

The math is simple. Someone with a $100K base, some bonus and benefits makes around $200K per year all-in. That works out to $100/hour. Joining the Ladders focuses your job search and saves you countless hours. It pays for itself almost immediately.

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One of the odd side-effects (among many) of my study abroad program in Prague was my resulting love of a band called Dispatch. This was my junior year in college, back in the spring of 2001.

Dispatch came and went, finally breaking up in 2004 (a moment immortalized in this awesome DVD). They were, as I've written before, a band fueled by the New England college, prep, and private school scene. They never signed to a label and were never really on the radio.

Like all good breakups, though, this one has a happy ending (or something like that). Dispatch announced a series of reunion concerts (to benefit Zimbabwe) next weekend at Madison Square Garden. All 3 shows sold out in about ten minutes. No unsigned band had ever sold out Madison Square Garden even once. Their song "Here We Go" is now the background music on a new HBO promo spot. Heady stuff.

What's the point of this post? Not the Dispatch back story.

They are also playing a charity show tomorrow night at Webster Hall, and like any good groupie fan, I'll be there. There's a Facebook page for the event as well so I took at look at who said they were going. Looks like the crowd is full of college freshman and high schoolers.

Well, you know what they say about Dispatch fans..."I keep getting older, they just stay the same age."

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Back in May I linked to a cool example of recruitment advertising created by the CEO of Meetup.com. Basically, this CEO got sick of losing out on potential recruits to big bad Google and decided to do something about.

Turns out this type of stuff works. At the SHRM conference last week in Las Vegas, the Director of HR from Meetup was at our booth and I mentioned I really liked what their CEO had done with the working-at-meetup.com-vs-working-at-google web page. She said that someone who worked on the Google Docs team [the application used to create the advertisement, natch] had seen the page and was starting at Meetup.com that day!

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