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daVinci Makes Top Job-Site List Again
Career finder gains distinction for 4th straight year
By Casey J. Dickinson, CNY
Business Journal Staff, January 25, 2002
SYRACUSE - The recruiting Web site for the daVinci
Project of Upstate New York has returned to the CareerXRoads
annual list of best job-search sites. The site, www.davincitimes.org,
has made the list for the fourth straight year, says Thomas Mushow,
executive director of the daVinci Project.
"There's only 30 of the 50 left from last year,
so we're very proud," he says.
New Jersey-based MMC Group, Inc. publishes the annual
CareerXRoads list of thousands of online employment sites.
The site has undergone a $100,000 redesign in conjunction
with a wider recruiting mission. Some members of the project have
presented their experiences to audiences outside Central New York.
January 8, Jud Gostin, president and CEO of Sensis Corp., gave members
of the New York State Assembly an overview of the project and how
his company used the recruiting tool.
Last fall, the daVinci
Project of Upstate New York opened its formerly members-only
Web site to the community for use as a one-stop recruiting site.
Created as a recruiting tool to bring engineers and other highly
skilled technical workers to the Syracuse area, the davincitimes.org
site is now serving to match displaced workers with open jobs. The
50-member consortium of area tech companies decided to open the
site to other employers in order to help a local economy hit by
layoffs.
The decision to open the site gave area companies
the free use of a resource that once cost thousands of dollars.
The daVinci Project's membership levels included initial fees of
up to $10,000 and annual dues ranging from $2,000 to $5,000, says
Mushow.
Designed by Purplewire
LLC, the daVinci recruiting site went online in 1997. Since
its launch, nearly 500 new employees have joined member companies.
Employers can view résumés using a password-protected
system designed to ensure confidentiality.
The site's redesign has made it easier to use and
made operation more consistent with the function of larger job sites,
says Jay Mortensen, chief technology officer at Purplewire.
"We've had a lot of positive feedback on the
site's usability," he says.
Contact Dickinson at cdickinson@cnybj.com
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