A few months ago, we began searching for a new, customer-service-focused member of the LetMeGo team. We chose our new team member, Treeny Sanchez, from among 415 applicants, after 19 interviews. She began helping lodging staff members to add their listings to our database two weeks ago.She is a native of Australia, has vast experience in the travel industry, and is already giving us ideas that will help to improve our service. Welcome to the team, Treeny!
How did we find Treeny, then? We posted the job opening on several sites. Some were free, and some charged a fee. I also sent it to a few mailing lists. Here are the results:
| Site/Service | Cost: | Applications that warranted an interview: |
| Monster | USD95 | 5 |
| Craigslist | USD25 | 11 |
| USD195 | 0 | |
| Indeed.com | Free | 1 |
| NextNY Mailing List | Free | 0 |
| NYTech Meetup Mailing List | Free | 0 |
Clearly, our best investment was Craigslist. Not only was it the least expensive of the paid placements, but it generated the largest number of qualified applicants, including that of our eventual hire, Treeny.
It’s worth noting that Monster sent us the largest number of applications, by far. However, most of these applications were incomplete–apparently, Monster makes it too easy for people to apply without first reading through the details of the position in question. Eventually, Monster’s flood of incomplete or unqualified applicants became a nuisance, rather than a benefit. Monster, it looks like somebody needs to improve their marketplace’s matching algorithm…
Alexander Torrenegra
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It is good to know. Also, it seems like a biz opportunity to talk with Monster people… maybe.. LetMeWork?
Not to mention Likedn complete worthlessness.
Congrats on Treeny. She has been a joy to work with!
Thanks for posting your findings. I’ve been leaning away from Craigslist due to the many “Nigerian scams” which abound. I’ll need to rethink my position as it clearly provided you with the best bang for your buck as well as ultimately, your new hire.
Thank you! I will Treeny know
– I think that Craigslist, as any other large marketplace, works well for some things and not so well for others.
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nice James Cameron movie. But how do we know how to interact. Its all gestures. Also, looks like all projected interfaces from some mysterious hidden projector. May be all future materials can change color if given some current. Like E-ink. Also if the data needs to flow seamlessly from one device medium to another, we need to buy all microsoft product only including the coffee cup shown. How does iPhone fit into this ecosystem.
Craigslist doesn’t charge for listing jobs in all cities. I am from Baltimore and post jobs for clients to Craigslist for free with great success. I post jobs to several free job boards like jobvertise, ebay classifieds, twitter, facebook, linkedin etc and use my free tool called jobbered I coded to track all applicants in one place. To think some of my clients would pay $300 for an ad in the local newspaper! crazy. You can get high quality applicant leads with free tools and free websites.