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Capturing techies.
Crain's New York Business, October, 1999
Will the web take the middleman out of the hiring process? Job boards, such as HotJobs.com and Monster.com, are making strong pushes to appeal to techies. Monster, owned by TMP Worldwide Inc., recently partnered with Manpower Technical to access more listings. HotJobs.com, an offshoot of technical staffing firm Otec, launched a new area this month devoted exclusively to start-ups.
Jeffrey Hertzberg, founder of software consulting firm Xenotrope Inc., recently went through on-line job board HotJobs.com to find a programmer. His cost was a modest $2,000, which got him a four-month posting, as opposed to the $10,000 he would have paid a contingency firm, whose typical cut these days is 20% to 25% of first-year salary. For techies' eyeballs only are Web sites...
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