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TheLadders.com Hits One Million Member Milestone


Membership Skyrockets as Professionals Log On to Leading Online Service

NEW YORK (November 27, 2006) - Today, TheLadders.com surpassed one million members. TheLadders.com, the world's leading online service for $100,000+ jobs, is a thriving online community where senior-level professionals go to find jobs and connect with top recruiters. TheLadders.com provides high-level job seekers with the most comprehensive listing of $100k+ jobs on the web, as well as a database of over 25,000 recruiters, from Fortune 500 companies and small businesses alike.

Since the company's start in 2003, the website has experienced explosive growth. Job seekers visit the site often for fast, easy access to the 35,000 new positions posted on TheLadders.com each month. Because TheLadders.com lists only top-tier positions geared to the $100,000+ job market, members save significant time in the job search process and are able to quickly locate jobs that interest them. The exponential growth of activity on the site proves that TheLadders.com provides credible value to those who are both seeking their next $100k+ job and those who are looking to find their next $100k+ hire.

"The meteoric growth in our membership - to one million! - shows that we're doing something right. We're providing more and more executives with the critical job information and resources they need to make major life and career transitions," said Marc Cenedella, president and CEO of TheLadders.com. "It's so fulfilling to create a community where one million professionals can come and find their next great role in life."

TheLadders.com has created innovative tools to help job seekers make their searches more efficient and effective. TheLadders.com's Professional Network enables both job seekers and recruiters to create profiles, search the network's database and communicate with each other safely and securely online, a first in online recruiting.

My Jobs, the latest tool TheLadders.com has developed for professionals, gives them total control over their job search. My Jobs makes the online search process faster, easier, and more targeted than ever before. Candidates now have the ability to save jobs, apply, follow up, and track their entire job search process from start to finish, all from one central location.


About TheLadders.com
Headquartered in New York, TheLadders.com, Inc. is a privately held company offering online job search services to recruiters and job seekers in the $100k+ employment market. Ex-HotJobs.com executive Marc Cenedella founded TheLadders.com in 2003 to address the unique job seeking and recruiting requirements in this market sector. Investors include leading venture capital firm Matrix Partners and prominent private investors such as Kevin Ryan, CEO, DoubleClick, Tom Matlack, Megunticook Management, and Robert Chefitz, NJTC Venture Fund.

In addition to its primary member-based site, the Company operates vertical job search Web sites for sales, marketing, finance, human resources, law, technology, and operations. All sites feature daily job updates as well as industry-specific weekly e-newsletters. For corporate and executive recruiters, TheLadders.com delivers the same highly personalized experience. TheLadders for Recruiters (www.recruitladder.com) enables them to easily post $100k+ job openings at no charge. The Company further differentiates itself from other online job boards that fall prey to fraudulent job postings by implementing human mediated search, ensuring all job postings are fully qualified before being published to members.

More information about TheLadders.com can be accessed at www.theladders.com.

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Media Contacts
Maria Schiller
TheLadders.com
646-453-1913
maria.schiller@theladders.com