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Monday December 20, 2:32 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: EarthWeb
Amazon.com, Excite.com, MCI, Nasdaq, PeopleSoft, Staples & Yahoo Select EarthWeb's dice.com to Recruit IT Professionals
Leading IT Job Board Adds New Fortune 500 Clients
DES MOINES, Iowa, Dec. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- EarthWeb's (Nasdaq: EWBX - news) dice.com ( www.dice.com ), a leading nationwide job site for Information Technology (IT) professionals, announced today that Amazon.com Holdings (Nasdaq: AMZN - news), Excite@home (Nasdaq: ATHM - news), MCI Worldcom (Nasdaq: WCOM - news), The Nasdaq Stock Market®, PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT - news); Staples (Nasdaq: SPLS - news); and Yahoo (NYSE: YHOO - news) have each signed agreements to post their IT job positions on dice.com. Dice.com was ranked number one in San Francisco, New York, Boston and Austin for IT job postings by Dynamic Logic, an online research company.
''These new dice.com clients join a number of other Fortune 500 companies such as Apple, Bank of America, Bear Stearns, Cisco, The Gap, HP, IBM, Intel, Lucent and Sprint that are now posting their jobs on dice.com,'' said Lloyd Linn, co-founder and president of dice.com, part of EarthWeb's network of services. ''A wide range of companies are finding our job board an effective recruitment tool because dice.com's powerful combination of advanced search tools and the fact that we currently have over 130,000 high-tech jobs makes us an attractive source for IT professionals.''
''Focus -- knowing and serving your specific market well -- is an enormous asset in the Internet economy,'' said Jerry Michalski, president of Sociate and former managing editor of the newsletter Release 1.0. ''By crafting its offer around IT professionals, dice.com is attracting some of the industry's largest and most noteworthy employers.''
''We believe our clients are making the recruitment of IT professionals a top business priority because IT professionals conduct mission critical tasks for their companies,'' said Bill Gollan, senior vice president at EarthWeb. ''As a result, the demand for IT professionals should continue at an accelerated growth rate into the future which we expect will drive more activity to dice.com.''
Dice.com lists high-tech permanent, contract and consulting jobs nationwide for a wide variety of positions from programmers, software engineers and system administrators to software development engineers, CIOs and other IT professionals. Dice.com currently lists over 130,000 high tech jobs online and offers many value-added services for career and recruitment management.
About dice.com
Dice.com ( www.dice.com ), part of the EarthWeb network of business-to-business online services for the IT industry, provides online career management and recruiting services. The site lists more than 130,000 high tech jobs online and offers many value-added services including JobSeeker, which notifies candidates by email when jobs are posted which match their customized profiles; Announce Availability, which posts job seeker profiles online; and links to additional career search resources on the Internet. EarthWeb's Dice.com was ranked number one in San Francisco, New York, Boston and Austin for information technology jobs by Dynamic Logic, an online research company, in an August 1999 study commissioned by EarthWeb.
About EarthWeb
EarthWeb Inc. ( www.earthweb.com ) (Nasdaq: EWBX - news) is the leading provider of business-to-business online services to the global information technology industry. Through its flagship services, earthweb.com, developer.com, datamation.com, dice.com, Supportsource.com and ITKnowledge.com, and its other integrated business-to-business online services, EarthWeb connects buyers to sellers, employers to employees, vendors to customers, and technical professionals to a wealth of expert knowledge. EarthWeb was ranked the third fastest growing company within Business Week's Info Tech 100. The Info Tech 100, which includes such industry leaders as Dell Computer and Cisco Systems, is Business Week's list of ''the builders of the new economy.'' |
