OperationIT.com Provides IT Job Search Channel for Deja.com

Alliance Offers Customized Links to Deja.com’s Technology Savvy Users

New York, NY (August 10, 2000) – OperationIT.com, a leading IT sourcing Web site dedicated to serving IT professionals and client companies, announced today that it has joined with Deja.com to provide its members with a customized IT job search channel.  Starting today, Deja.com users will have direct access to OperationIT.com’s Career Center tools to post their resume, create a job search agent, or search client job postings to enhance their IT career.  The custom channel is accessible from Deja.com’s Usenet discussion group homepage (www.deja.com/usenet) or by visiting http://www.operationit.com/dejacobrand.asp. 

“We’re very pleased to team with Deja.com to create this highly visible custom channel.  Now their members will have the same easy to use and functionally superior tools and technology that our members have used to advance their own IT careers,” said Jim Ivon, CEO for OperationIT.com. “We look forward to serving the employment needs of Deja.com’s technically savvy audience.”

“By joining forces with OperationIT.com, we introduce our coveted global community of technology professionals to a valuable service with immediate benefits,” said Richard Gorelick, chief strategy officer of Deja.com. “We’re thrilled with the OperationIT.com Career Center because it simplifies the job search process for our users.”

In addition to the IT job search channel, the alliance will place OperationIT.com site links throughout Deja.com’s popular technology discussion group pages.  These discussion group categories include high interest areas such as AS/400, C++, Java, Oracle, SAP, Unix, and Visual Basic.

About OperationIT.com  

OperationIT.com is the premier Web site for IT sourcing on the Internet. The OperationIT.com Career Center is the most sophisticated, yet easy to use IT employment center on the Internet. It allows employers to manage their global IT job openings with an automated, proactive approach to recruiting. For job applicants, it is a powerful tool to help find the perfect IT career.  The OperationIT.com Business Center brings together clients’ IT project needs with other IT specialty firms, independent contractors or corp. to corp. professionals who are searching for their next IT project. The Business Center is designed to "Bridge the Gap Between Project and Professional".

More information on the features and benefits of OperationIT.com is available online at www.OperationIT.com .

About Deja.com  

Deja.com, Inc., provides two powerful Web-based services — the first Precision Buying ServiceSM and the leading Usenet Discussion ServiceSM. Deja.com is widely known for its franchise in consumer-generated content and its role as a trusted intermediary, brokering reliable, unbiased information on products available for purchase on the Web. Deja.com's Precision Buying Service (www.deja.com) is the company's primary offering. It is a full-featured buyer's portal that provides consumers with a complete set of tools and resources for determining what products to buy and where to buy them. The company's Usenet Discussion Service (www.deja.com/usenet/) provides easy and fast access to approximately 35,000 Usenet discussion forums. The company also operates Deja Business SolutionsSM, a licensing unit for its content and proprietary technologies. Founded in 1995, the company is headquartered in New York City and Austin, Texas.

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Contact:

Tom Morrissey  
OperationIT.com 
212.338.9595 
TMorrissey@OperationIT.com