The Detroit-based Quicken Loans family of companies launched an effort Monday to try to recruit laid-off workers from Web company Yahoo Inc.
The Quicken Loans family of companies — including online mortgage giant Quicken Loans, Fathead and technology venture capital firm Detroit Venture Partners — said in a statement that it has started a website, www.ValleytoDetroit.com, for 2,000 former Yahoo technology and marketing professionals to submit resumes. Yahoo said Wednesday it would lay off about 14 percent of its work force this year.
"We know that there is a great deal of talent inside of Yahoo — especially in marketing and Web development — and we're encouraging those who have been impacted by job cuts to consider Detroit as the next stop in their career," Detroit Venture Partners CEO and managing partner Josh Linkner said in a statement.
The firms affiliated with Quicken Loans said they would immediately start interviews and fly final candidates to Detroit. The move follows the announcement last week that Dan Gilbert and his companies lured San Francisco-based microblogging site Twitter to open a small Detroit office in its M@dison Building in downtown. Gilbert has been trying to create a technology corridor along Woodward Avenue.
Online giant Quicken Loans has been hiring consistently since moving its headquarters downtown in August 2010, a company official said, though its announcement in March that it was hiring 800 employees in addition to 600 interns was among its larger hiring efforts. The company has had to look outside of the state to find qualified candidates for technology jobs.
"I think technology has always been a difficult area to fill," Michelle Salvatore, Quicken Loans director of recruiting, told The Detroit News last month.
The website struck a more optimistic tone on Monday. It said, "If you've got the entrepreneurial spirit, there's no better place to be than Detroit!"
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