Nearly N.

I am from Asia. I signed up a week or so ago, and have been very satisfied with what this site has to offer. When I googled for some reviews, and this site came up, I was surprised the reviews are so negative.

You will notice my comments to other reviewers. One of them had no response, except suggest that I am with Ivy. (Well, if they pay well, I can be with Ivy too :))

The negative opinion centers around two things:

1. All these jobs are available for free everywhere on the internet. Why does Ivy charge.
2. They are flakes who switch and bait (charge the credit card after offering first month free).

Neither of these is really a compelling negative. I am not wedded to Ivy and will move in a blink to another site that offers me what they offer.

This is my view:

1. Having used The Ladders, Monster, eFinanceCareers, LinkedIn, classifieds sites from major newspapers, etc etc, I can say one thing -- Ivy Exec's filtered list of jobs is definitely of relevance to me. Sure, Indeed etc are all free. But they contain a truckload of drivel. I have to wade through idiotic jobs to find a handful of meaningful executive roles that I am looking for. No thanks. Ivy, at least so far, has allowed me to feel for the first time that even with my filters, there are always 10-15 jobs that are from bluechip companies, not from Podunk East China Engineering Ltd. This filtered aggregation is useful enough for me to pay $30. Is it relevant enough for others? Not my business.

As for "oh but the company sites already have these jobs". Yeah, and? The suggestion is that I bookmark the top 200 companies I find desirable, and check their websites every day, manually? Sorry mate. This is a valuable service and I don't mind paying for it. I'd have loved to pay $5 instead of $30 a month, but it is what it is.

2. As for the auto-renewal. This really makes NO SENSE. If there indeed are jobseeking morons who actually PAY (or specify their payment information) to sign up to IvyExec, and do NOT thereafter have the common sense to at least visit the "My Account" page even once, where it's a very clean and simple UI to turn off auto-renewal (which I did in the first 5 minutes of signing in), then these guys don't deserve anything but the most noise-filled freebie sites. This is not Ivy's mistake, this is a deficit of common sense.

A job board, whether it's a free one, or something with a bit of shininess like Ivy, is ultimately just a listing of jobs. Hopefully they have been filtered to your requirements, and hopefully they are from meaningful companies. I find Ivy to be satisfactory in this regard. Hardly anything to gush over, but it is so far the best jobs I have found *for me*.

I am in strategy, in Asia, with good name schools and decent name companies in my background. Just FYI.