Wheres your Easter egg

Wheres your Easter eggWheres your Easter eggI welches at the Ritz-Carlton in Manhattan when it hit me.I was with my Ladybug at Rise Bar - that gorgeous 14th floor hideaway in the Battery Park Ritz overlooking the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and New York Harbor. The centerpiece at the hotel for Easter weekend was an enormous six-foot-high tower of chocolates. The tower was like one of those gushing fountains, with candies, chocolate rabbits, and Easter eggs overflowing the brim. And as I got closer it turned out that the tower itself was pure chocolateNow six feet of chocolate is a wondrous thing. The cascading circles of chocolate coins, that heavy fulsome aroma of cocoa, and the beautiful deep dark brown of the chocolate tower itself, made for a sight that your $100K+ job-loving correspondent wont soon forget.And thats when it struck me, looking at all those chocolate eggs?The $100K+ job search is an Easter Egg hunt. We all believe that our special surprise is out there, somew here, tucked away in the bushes. And we spend our time, too much time really, running around in circles trying to find it.And you might think that the typical 47-year-old executive would be a whole heck of a lot better at finding his or her next great role in life than a 5-year-old running around the backyard.But somehow, the job hunt has become much more difficult than retrieving a hard-boiled egg from under Fidos dog dish.And, gosh, that just doesnt make a lot of sense to me.There are perhaps 100,000 recruiters at companies and executive search firms who hire or place a $100K+ professional in the course of each year. And by our count, there are 4 million hires, transfers, and promotions at this level in the U.S. every 12 months. So why is it so difficult for us to find our next great role in life?Your next job is out there. Its on the computer desktop or in the file folders of a recruiter right now. But like the Easter eggs, its hidden.And the saddest part of it all is that the re cruiters want to hire you, thats how they get their bonuses, and kudos, and recognition at their firm. They didnt really intend to create a system where jobs were hidden away from the job-binnenseekers they wanted to reach, but the internet (and the way its given the whole world easy access to information) has forced our recruiter friends to hide their great $100K+ jobs away.You see, when you post a $100K+ job on my old employer, HotJobs.com, or on one of the new-fangled phenomena like Craigslist.org, everybody on the internet, all over the world, can see it.And what do you think happens when you post a really great job where everybody can see it?Thats right, that job posting gets more interest than Leonardo DiCaprio at an all girls academy (Ive never really understood that fellas attraction, by the way, but Im off to see The Aviator tonight so perhaps the clouds will part and Ill be enlightened).So recruiters, in order to keep their lives reasonable, their schedules sane, and their inboxes free of muck, have had to hide their best job postings from the great unwashed masses on the internet.And thats where your buddies at Ladders.com come in. Each week, we search through thousands of company career sites, we email thousands of recruiters, and we call hundreds of them directly on the phone to say Got any $100K+ jobs for our 307,674 subscribers this week? Its really targeted - we only accept subscribers whove made more than $75K recently on average our readers send only 18 highly qualified resumes per job and because were a member-supported organization, we cant and wont accept your money.Well, you can imagine their glee at this proposition, to the tune of 18,893 new $100K+ jobs in the past 30 days alone.And by collecting all these Easter eggs, er? $100K+ jobs, in one place, were making your job search so much easier than looking under every couch, checking the cookie jar, and climbing the old apple tree in the backyard.Happy hunting, ReadersNEW FEATURES ON THE WAYNow a lot of you have written in with great suggestions about how we can make the hunt even easier keyword search, sorting jobs by distance from your zipcode, letting you know which jobs youve clicked on recently, etc.Well Im pleased to let you know that Sapphire, our next generation product, will be coming out in early May. It has all of these great features and more. Were putting the finishing touches on the code and then well be testing, testing, testing it for the month of April, so please stay tuned.Ladders.COM IN THE PRESSAnd Readers, let me tell you, word about our vision for a faster, simpler $100K+ job hunt is spreadingClick here to see my interview with Lester Holt on MSNBC on age discrimination.JOBS ACCEPTED BY SALESLADDER SUBSCRIBERS THIS WEEK Just as reported, typos and allTitleCompensationAccount Director$100,000Account Executive Advertising saleSalary plus commissionAssociate Publisher$140,000B2B Salesall comish, $150K+ potentialBranch General Manager$112,000gesch ftliches miteinander Development Manager140000.00Channel Manager$140K OTEClient Team Leader120000Consultant160KCustom Network Solutions Sales ManagerDir. Business Development200KDirector, Business Development120,000.00director130,000Director$120,000director200k +Director160000Director of Advertising137,500Director of Membership Sales and MarketingDirector of Sales250Director of Salesover $100KDirector of SalesEnterprise Account Manager$150K OTEExecutive Director$115,000.General Manager100,000Global Sales and Marketing Manager125kGroup Publisher$140,000Midwest Sales Manager100,000.00 +National Account Manager$118,700National Account Manager100,000Partner Development ManagerTotal Comp. =$160KPresidentconfidentiallokal Sales Manager$115 Base, $250 Total packageRegional Sales Manager185kRegional Sales Manager100,000.00 plusRegional Sales Manager$100,000Regional Sales Manager225,000Sales$100,000.00 plus commissionsSales Manager125,000Sales Manager140,000Sales Rep100K+Sales Representative 100KSenior Director170KSenior Director250,000Sr. Account Executive$162KStorage Sales Specialist165KVice President165000.00Vice President120,000Vice President Sales$125,000Vice President, Installation Services100+VP of Sales120KVP Sales$300KVP Sales300kVP Sales Marketing120K + Bonus