Subscription Job Sites - Any experience? Any Good?

[richt5a]

I've come across a number of Job sites/boards where you need to pay a subscription of some sort to see the roles, for e.g.

Top-contract . . .
http://subscribers.top-contractconsultant.com/

The Ladders
https://www.theladders.co.uk/

Experteer
https://eu.experteer.com/

Anyone got any real experience of them to say if they are any good?

I tried topcontractconsultant a few times but never saw anything appropriate for an IT Programme/Project Manager and while I need a job I'd rather not throw my dwindling funds at on-line pimps if they can't really help.

[DeeElvis]

LOL ... paying to get paid....

[Bunk]

I wouldn't use them, mainly because I'm 99.9% sure that the same tulip that shows up on Jobserve will be on those listings too. And there's no way I'm paying for the privilege of having more pimps call up to fish.

[thunderlizard]

I wouldn't expect them to be much good. Even if they are free to the advertiser, the candidate pool will be so artificially small that they wouldn't be worth using. Out of Top-Contract's 144 current adverts, I bet none are unique, still-live and relevant to me.

[Muttley08]

Came across the ladders one - looked awful site to me...wouldn't pay on principle...I'm sure they'll never take off coz we're all to tight and highly strung to pay for it.

[Paddy]

I've come across a number of Job sites/boards where you need to pay a subscription of some sort to see the roles, for e.g.

Top-contract . . .
http://subscribers.top-contractconsultant.com/

The Ladders
https://www.theladders.co.uk/

Experteer
https://eu.experteer.com/

Anyone got any real experience of them to say if they are any good?

I tried topcontractconsultant a few times but never saw anything appropriate for an IT Programme/Project Manager and while I need a job I'd rather not throw my dwindling funds at on-line pimps if they can't really help.

Read the small print. They are a publications company and charging you for an online publication. Not worth the hard disk it’s stored on.

[saptastic]

i was looking into this - however came to the conclusion I am sure there will be no unique roles on these websites - especially contract roles.

I am sure that of advertised contract roles your base is pretty well covered on all the main contract sites - cw, jobserve, technojobs, jobsite. Why would an agency just put a contract on the ladders?

[xchaotic]

The Ladders
https://www.theladders.co.uk/

Anyone got any real experience of them to say if they are any good?

I managed to get the premium one for free somehow, for a limited time, as otherwise I would never have paid for such a thing - the middlemen are getting more than enough already...

Anyway it was rubbish back then and I don't think it had a single post that couldn't have been found on the public ones.
On the other hand it didn't have nearly as much ads as say jobsite so what's the point?

[MPwannadecentincome]

The Ladders
https://www.theladders.co.uk/

You do not have to pay to see or apply for anything on Ladders, of course their web pages do not make this obvious. When you click on an ad to see its details, the next page invites you to subscribe, in very small writing you will see a 'no thanks' option, click on that and the job is there to see and apply for.

Good Luck!