Dice.com

Dice.com
Industry Career Website
Headquarters Urbandale, IA
Key people Scot W. Melland, Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Dice Holdings, Inc.
Thomas M. Silver, Senior Vice President, North America, Dice Holdings, Inc.
Website http://www.dice.com

Dice.com is a career website based in Urbandale, Iowa. It serves information technology and engineering professionals.[1] Dice.com is owned by Dice Holdings, Inc (NYSE: DHX).[2][3] On any given day, Dice.com has approximately 60,000 tech job listings. The website claims to have 3 million registered technology professionals and approximately 2 million unique visitors each month.[4][5] Of those registered users, 75% have a bachelor's degree or higher and 65% have 10 or more years of experience in their field.[4]

Dice.com was rated as the best job site for technology fields by ConsumerSearch and by PC Magazine as one of the top ten sites to find a job in information technology.[6][7] It was ranked the #1 technology job site by Dynamic Logic and the #1 source for quality technology candidates by Harris Interactive.[4]

In June 2009, Dice.com advertised 48,000 jobs.[8]

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History

Founded in 1990 by Lloyd Linn and Diane Rickert, two former contractors, Dice.com had 175 employees by April 2001.[9][10] Today, Dice Holdings, Inc. has 265 employees worldwide.

Chris Benner, in his 2002 book Work in the new economy: flexible labor markets in Silicon Valley, called Dice.com "[t]he most prominent site in the Silicon Valley high-tech recruiting industry".[10] Dice is an acronym for "Data-processing Independent Consultant's Exchange". In the book, Benner says "the dice imagery actually captures fairly well the type of high-rolling lifestyle that high-end contractors aspire to."[10]

Dice was originally a bulletin board service where recruiters would list open jobs.[10] Dice began operations in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1990. In 1994, the founders moved Dice's headquarters to Des Moines, Iowa. They then launched the URL www.dice.com in 1996. In 1999, Dice opened the career website to direct hiring companies while continuing to serve the recruiting and staffing industry. In February of the same year, it was acquired by EarthWeb.[10]

In 2001, the parent company, Earthweb, changed its name to Dice Inc.[11] In October that same year, Dice.com moved operations to Urbandale, Iowa. Then, in 2003, Dice Inc. completed a financial restructuring and went private. In 2005, Dice Inc. was acquired by Dice Holdings, Inc. which is owned equally by private equity firms General Atlantic LLC and Quadrangle Group LLC.

Since 2004, Dice Holdings has acquired career websites ClearanceJobs.com, eFinancialCareers.com and AllHealthcareJobs.com, as well as job fair service Targeted Job Fairs.

Dice Holdings completed an initial public offering in 2007 and its stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol DHX.[2]

Awards

In February 2009, Dice won a Stevie Award for excellence in Customer Service.[12]

References

  1. ^ Levinson, Meredith (2008-11-25). "Current IT Job Losses Won't Mirror 2001 Nightmare". PC World. Archived from the original on 2010-03-04. http://www.webcitation.org/5nyN3uzY7. Retrieved 2010-03-04. 
  2. ^ a b "Dice Holdings quarterly profit falls; gives Q3, Q4 view". Reuters. 2007-08-15. Archived from the original on 2010-03-04. http://www.webcitation.org/5nyN60MRy. Retrieved 2010-03-04. 
  3. ^ "Dice Holdings 4Q Tops Estimates; Shares Jump". Associated Press. 2010-02-02. Archived from the original on 2010-03-04. http://www.webcitation.org/5nyN8Wjfd. Retrieved 2010-03-04. 
  4. ^ a b c "Why Use Dice". Dice.com. 2010. http://employer.dice.com/external/content/employer/why_use_dice/marketing_page.html. Retrieved 2010-03-21. 
  5. ^ Gardyasz, Joe (2008-07-19). "From jobs board to professional community". BusinessRecord. http://businessrecord.com/main.asp?FromHome=1&TypeID=1&ArticleID=6575&SectionID=5&SubSectionID=10. Retrieved 2010-03-21. 
  6. ^ "Job Sites: Reviews". ConsumerSearch. 2009. http://www.consumersearch.com/job-sites. Retrieved 2010-03-21. 
  7. ^ "10 Sites to Help You Land a Tech Job". PC Magazine. Archived from the original on 2010-03-04. http://www.webcitation.org/5nyNB8fNR. Retrieved 2010-03-04. 
  8. ^ Thibodeau, Patrick (2009-06-08). "White House plan to create 600K jobs in 100 days won't help tech". Computerworld. http://www.itworld.com/government/68966/white-house-plan-create-600k-jobs-100-days-wont-help-tech. Retrieved 2010-03-21. 
  9. ^ Crane, Joyce Pellino (2004-03-25). "Local recruiter sees bright spots in high-tech job market: Dice.com works around the globe". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 2010-03-04. http://www.webcitation.org/5nyNDKQEp. Retrieved 2010-03-04. 
  10. ^ a b c d e Benner, Chris (2002). Work in the new economy: flexible labor markets in Silicon Valley. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 120–121. ISBN 0631232508. http://books.google.com/books?id=WWrasHunT20C&pg=RA1-PA20&dq=%22Dice.com%22. Retrieved 2010-03-04. 
  11. ^ Silverstein, Barry (2002). Business to business Internet marketing: seven proven strategies for increasing profits through Internet direct marketing. Gulf Breeze, FL: Maximum Press. p. 233. ISBN 1885068727. http://books.google.com/books?id=SWKmeRUzufkC&pg=PA233&dq=%22Dice.com%22. Retrieved 2010-03-04. 
  12. ^ "Results of the 3rd annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Services". Stevie Awards. 2009-02-09. Archived from the original on 2010-10-23. http://www.webcitation.org/5thz10cpD. Retrieved 2010-03-21. 

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