This story appeared in a Wired News Report on April 27, 1999
‘What Am I Bid for These Geeks?’
EBay
calls itself “your personal trading community.” Now it can rename itself “your
PERSON trading community.”
On
Monday, a seller listed a complete team of 16 Internet service provider
engineers, opening the bidding at a whopping US$3.14 million.
The
description for the auction says that the team works for a major ISP and is
willing to leave as a group. Buyers are limited to companies in Silicon Valley.
The
$3.14 million figure includes the salary of one director, three managers, seven
senior engineers, and five administrators, along with a $320,000 signing bonus.
Open an ebay
account and try it.
You can sell
your skills under a couple of catagories like “business”, “industrial” or any titile that is specific
to the industry you’re interested in.
Place yourself under every sub category where an
employer browsing the site is likely to look and which is relevant to your
background. For example a dental hygienist would want to be in: “Healthcare Lab”and “Life Sciences” under medical equipment, equipment, and medical instruments.
Put in a
price that is your median salary request, -- for example
$35,000 -- because most people set their search options to
sort their results by price.
Try an
auction too.
Send links to your ad to your friends and ask them to forward the link to your ad throughout their network.
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