A monster deal? The company behind Monster.com was to create a state-of-the-art online job search and recruitment system for the Indiana Department of Workforce Development but the contract was nixed.

Indiana Business Magazine › Vol. 50 Nbr. 4, April 2006

Author: McKimmie, Kathy

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A monster deal? The company behind Monster.com was to create a state-of-the-art online job search and recruitment system for the Indiana Department of Workforce Development but the contract was nixed.

ON FEBRUARY 1 THE Indiana Department of Workforce Development announced it "awarded a contract" worth $2.8 million to Monster Government Solutions, a subsidiary of Monster Worldwide, to provide Indiana with "a new, state-of-the-art, online job search and recruitment system." Five weeks later, commissioner Ron Stiver said the deal was "null and void" and a second RFP of broader scope would be issued to replace the state's decrepit and little-used job matching syst...

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