-- EarthWeb's Dice.com's Custom Search Network Now Totals Nineteen Tech-Related Sites -- EarthWeb's Dice.com Selected By Avery, Ingram-Micro, Reebok And Uunet
NEW YORK, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- EarthWeb (NASDAQ:EWBX)
announced today that dice.com ( www.dice.com ), a leading nationwide job site for Information Technology (IT) professionals, has completed exclusive agreements with five IT-related sites to provide dice.com job listings on their Web sites. Additionally, the Company announced that Avery Dennison (NYSE:AVY)
, Ingram Micro (NYSE:IM)
, Reebok International (NYSE:RBK)
and Uunet/Worldcom, a subsidiary of MCI Worldcom (NASDAQ:WCOM)
, are each posting their IT job positions on dice.com.
Through the exclusive agreements, these newly added sites will be a part of dice.com's Custom Search Network, a targeted group of sites that uses the dice.com job search engine to power their job areas, and will display only dice.com job listings on their job boards.
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"We chose EarthWeb's dice.com because the site's incredible popularity, success, and remarkable growth rate are leading the industry," said Sean Kerr, founder and Webmaster of Gelicon.com. "Dice.com's expansive database of jobs perfectly complements our drive to encourage the learning of the art of Web design and the programming that makes it possible."
"The Custom Search Network allows dice.com to offer additional IT audiences to our recruiters and employers who post jobs with us while continuing to attract only the top qualified candidates," said Kent Kelderman, Group Vice President of EarthWeb Career Solutions. "Each new IT site that is included has been screened for the appropriate target audience of potential jobseekers."
"The recruitment of IT professionals continues to accelerate across all industries as companies attempt to fulfill their need for high-tech jobs," said Bill Gollan, Senior Vice President at EarthWeb. "With current demand levels far outweighing the number of available IT professionals, EarthWeb's Career Solutions will continue to play an increasingly important role."
EarthWeb's dice.com currently lists more than 175,000 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's Custom Search Network, which is a targeted group of sites that use the dice.com job search engine to power their job areas, now totals nineteen Web sites such as RedHat.com, Dilbert.com, Go2Net.com, GirlGeeks.com and UserFriendly.org.
About EarthWeb Career Solutions, Inc.
EarthWeb Career Solutions is part of the EarthWeb network of business-to-business online services for the IT industry. Their flagship service, dice.com, has over 175,000 high-tech jobs online and offers many value-added services including JobSeeker, which notifies candidates by email when jobs are posted that match their customized profiles; Announce Availability, which posts job seeker profiles online; and links to additional career search resources on the Internet. In 1999, dice.com was ranked as the leading IT job board by Media Metrix and Alexa. Dice.com was also ranked number one in San Francisco, New York, Boston and Austin for the number of IT jobs by Dynamic Logic, an online research company, in a study commissioned by EarthWeb in August, 1999.
About EarthWeb
EarthWeb Inc. (NASDAQ:EWBX)
( www.earthweb.com ), the leading business portal to the global IT industry, provides a comprehensive set of solutions to a broad range of IT professionals: CTOs, IT managers, corporate IT purchasers, programmers, network managers, system administrators and recruiters/HR managers. As a trusted third-party platform, EarthWeb enables IT professionals to access technical information, buy and sell products and services, manage careers and recruit personnel through a network of flagship services that includes earthweb.com, dice.com and ITKnowledge.com. In 1999, EarthWeb was ranked the third fastest growing company within Business Week's Info Tech 100.
This press release may be deemed to contain forward-looking information. Any forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements, including statements as to industry trends, future economic performance, anticipated profitability, anticipated revenues and expenses, and products or service line growth, may be significantly and materially impacted by certain risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, failure to meet operating objectives or to execute the operating plan, competition, and other economic factors. Additional risks and uncertainties are described in the Company's public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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CONTACT: Constance Melrose, Vice President, Investor Relations, e-mail, ir@earthweb.com, or Harold Miltsch, Vice President, Corporate Communications, e-mail, pr@earthweb.com, 212-725-6550, both of EarthWeb Inc., Susan Simcox of Dice.com, 515-280-1144, e-mail, susans@dice.com, general info., Doug DeLieto, analysts, Jean Young, or media, Jerry Miller of The Financial Relations Board, 212-661-8030, Willow Christie of Thomas C. Porter & Associates, 515-221-4900, e-mail, christie@tcpa.com.
Source: EarthWeb Inc.
Contact: Constance Melrose, Vice President, Investor Relations, e-mail,
ir@earthweb.com, or Harold Miltsch, Vice President, Corporate Communications,
e-mail, pr@earthweb.com, 212-725-6550, both of EarthWeb Inc., Susan Simcox of
Dice.com, 515-280-1144, e-mail, susans@dice.com, general info., Doug DeLieto,
analysts, Jean Young, or media, Jerry Miller of The Financial Relations Board,
212-661-8030, Willow Christie of Thomas C. Porter & Associates, 515-221-4900,
e-mail, christie@tcpa.com
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