By David Mezzapelle

As I mentioned in Part 1, I decided to purchase the Barron’s Book of Colleges, create a job posting for a Campus Intern and fax it to every college listed. We had a 100% response rate. Every school applicable agreed to post our internship. Goliath Technology was well on its way to becoming an industry “Goliath.”

The next few months were exhausting. Thousands of resumes poured in from students looking for jobs and internships. Even alumni were sending in resumes. My first step was to recruit interns from local schools that could review resumes and help me find the optimum students at schools throughout the country. Traveling was cost prohibitive so I had to create a protocol that included minimum eligibility requirements, phone interviews and live interviews (if the school was within a reasonable distance). Since the schools were so receptive, I had their administrators helping us as well. Our internship program benefited them so they were more than happy to work with us.

Within 6 months we had representation in all major cities and towns. We had all the regions of the US and Canada covered. After weeding through students that did not perform, we had a solid 300 person workforce that brought Goliath Technology into companies, schools and data centers throughout North America. Very exciting.

 Winter 1991.  David Mezzapelle and John Hooks exhibiting at Goliath’s first Career Fair (project “CompuCampus”).   

At the end of our first year I moved out of the house and into an office in downtown Stamford Connecticut. Purchase orders were coming in daily over phone, fax and email. Business was great and we were growing. By our 3rd year we opened 2 more offices in Florida and California. Students started graduating. Some stayed and others moved on to other jobs with the confidence and experience they gained at Goliath. As I mentioned, interns learn your business and your culture quickly. If you are lucky and can retain them as full-time employees, your business will most likely continue to grow. We were a perfect example.

During these years (1990 - 2007) I always knew that we tapped into a market that was full of opportunity. Goliath Technology was a small part of something much bigger.

Part 3 of this story is available at http://blog.goliathjobs.com/2007/08/06/my-david-goliath-story-part-3-goliathjobs-is-born/.

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