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Vietladders is a web-based career community where companies pay candidates to interview. It is designed for a selected group of senior level professionals and memberships are by application or invitation only.

This model was created by a couple of experienced HR professionals who have witnessed firsthand the difficulties that many corporations are facing in recruiting top managers to maintain growth. To compete in “the war for talent”, companies are spending huge amount of cash on recruitment services, online and offline job postings. The big question naturally came up: why don’t companies spend some of this money on the candidates, or their preferred charity (Saigon Times Foundation), as incentives for them to explore new opportunities and listen to job pitches? Thus, Vietladders was founded.

In building this site, we had 3 objectives in mind:

• Create compelling and meaningful reasons for management level professionals to join and post their information (e.g. getting paid or donating money to Saigon Times Foundation)
• Maintain a strict standard of high quality among our members (e.g. users must be invited or approved by our HR experts)
• Protect candidates’ privacy, especially from companies where they are currently working (e.g. hiding name and contact information on profiles and the ability to block specific companies from viewing profile)