From the start of job boards in the mid 1990s until now, the vast
majority of job and career sites have worked on a simple economic
model: job seekers don’t pay, employers do. In fact, the concept of
free access to a job site’s listings was so ingrained that TheLadders
actually garnered quite a bit of publicity by requiring job seekers to
pay when it launched in 2004. Although still uncommon, ‘pay’ sites have
gathered some…