The Ladders

On the advice of a colleague, I decided to try doing some recruiting through The Ladders. They market themselves as a niche job board for $100k+ annual total comp jobs only.

Currently, they employ a reverse fee structure model: Charging candidates for premium access to the site, with hiring entities and recruiters getting free access. With great (and free) power comes great responsibility, though, and the moderators of the site individually validate any job posting that you submit in order to ensure that it's a real, detailed job description, and that it's $100k+.

I placed an ad yesterday in the afternoon, and received 10 targeted candidate responses overnight. Three of the resumes are close enough to the strike zone that I've scheduled interviews with them.

Not bad for free. Not bad at all.