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Submitted by charlie.collins on Tue, 12/14/1999 - 11:47
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Direct from ZDNet . . . ZDNet and techies.com Career Center Open for Business techies.coms Local Market Focus Provides ZDNet Visitors with Richest Technology Career Resource New York and Minneapolis, October 20, 1999 - ZDNet (NYSE: ZDZ) and techies.com Inc., a full service career resource for technology professionals throughout the United States, today launched the Career Center on ZDNet, the Webs leading source for technology content, community and commerce. This new co-developed ZDNet Career Center site (techies.zdnet.com) integrates techies.coms comprehensive information into ZDNet, including the latest career-related news and information and techies.coms in-depth, highly personalized information about local career opportunities, unique access to top companies and admission to online job fairs with corporate employers. "Putting our techies.com content on ZDNets site gives employers access to the most savvy technology professionals out there, and gives tech pros a full, detailed view of the top technology employers on a market-by-market basis," said Dan Frawley, CEO of techies.com. "techies.com prides itself on its local market focus because nobody cares about the killer job in Austin if Austin is 1,500 miles away from home." The ZDNet Career Center gives employers the opportunity to showcase their businesses to the greatest number of technically savvy professionals anywhere. The combination of ZDNets technologically-interested membership base and techies.coms local career opportunities and career-related content provides employers with an unprecedented resource for technology recruiting. Technology professionals get the benefit of being able to gather detailed information about the companies seeking employers. In addition, techies.com employs a "no headhunters" policy so that all the job opportunities that appear on the site are REAL jobs by REAL companies. This policy also ensures that headhunters will not harass registered techies.com members. techies.com works with corporations to develop unique seven-page company profiles to appear on the techies.com site and the ZDNet Career Center, and to develop detailed descriptions of specific job searches. Technology professionals register to become members of techies.com - 100 percent confidential - by completing recruitment profiles that detail technology and service areas of expertise as well as job preferences (i.e. geography, compensation, etc.). techies.com then uses its Intelligent Agent technology to send e-mail messages directly to its members whose profiles match the corporations requirements for job applicants. Members receiving this e-mail can then review a specific companys background information on its unique web site and then respond directly to the corporation if interested in the job. "ZDNet is an incredible resource for everything technology-related," stated Dan Rosensweig, president and CEO of ZDNet. "techies.coms local market focus is crucial for todays technology professionals. Visitors rely on ZDNet to deliver the most timely and useful information and techies.com can provide the best in career information and opportunities. The ZDNet Career Center will be an invaluable resource for ZDNets over 8.5 million monthly unique visitors."About techies.comtechies.com is a full service career source for technology professionals in local markets throughout the United States. techies.com employs more than 450 people, including 300 field sales professionals. The site has more than 150,000 members and 1,000 participating companies. As the ultimate online resource for technology professionals, techies.com offers a range of career planning information, job opportunities and an in depth background on top local companies that are looking to hire technology professionals. The company currently offers localized online technology career communities in 38 markets including Boston, New York City, San Francisco-Bay Area and Chicago. techies.com can be found online at www.techies.com. techies.com is also a co-founder of Techies Day, the first-ever national celebration designed to focus public attention on technology professionals and their contributions to our "wired" world, and to encourage students to study science, math and technology. For more information about Techies Day, go to www.techiesday.org. About ZDNetBased in San Francisco, ZDNet operates the leading Web destination (www.zdnet.com) for people who want to buy, use and learn about technology. ZDNet offers an enormous depth and breadth of original, fresh content that it serves to a growing audience ranging from IT professionals, to families, to gamers. Winner of the Computer Press Awards Best Overall Online Site, ZDNet Sites consistently ranks among the Top 20 Web properties according to Media Metrixs at home-at work study and ZDNet.com has been ranked as the number-one news, information and entertainment site for ten out of the last 13 months.ZDNets content is available worldwide through its four wholly owned and 16 licensed international sites. This release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Although Ziff-Davis Inc. believes that the expectations reflected in its forward-looking statements are reasonable, actual results could differ materially from those expectations. Important cautionary statements and risk factors that would affect actual results are discussed in materials filed by Ziff-Davis Inc. with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including under the caption "Risk Factors" in the Registration Statement on Form S-1, which became effective March 30, 1999, and the Form S-3, which became effective August 11, 1999. Holders of ZD Group Stock and ZDNet Stock are common stockholders of Ziff-Davis Inc. and are subject to the risks associated with an investment in Ziff-Davis Inc. and all of its businesses, assets and liabilities.