I was working for a IT recruiting company, managing a team that essentially was pulling down and parsing every resume from the job sites at that time - Monster.

I was working for a IT recruiting company, managing a team that essentially was pulling down and parsing every resume from the job sites at that time - Monster.com, Dice.com, HotJobs, etc. Recruiters were on the phone every day to try and find guys who knew all the 'hot' tech at the time - Vignette was a really big ticket item, for example, with six-figure salaries and a high percent for recruiters. It wasn't a 'boiler room' mentality--far from it--and we had plans to really grow, after creating our own database of resumes. Of course, that ran out of steam when the bust came and there was only really one company which had the resume database market covered, and that was Monster. By that time, I had moved on to another company called ArsDigita. Hmm, out of the frying pan...