Jennifer Bewley - IR Michael P. Durney - CFO and SVP Finance, Treasurer Scott W. Melland - Chairman, President and CEO

Securities: Douglas Anmuth - Barclays Capital Timothy McHugh - William Blair and Company Imran Khan - JP Morgan Chase & Co. Collis Boyce - Morgan Stanley Youssef Squali - Jefferies & Company Mark May - Needham & Company

Good day ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Dice Holdings, Inc., third quarter 2008 earnings conference call. My name is Lacey and I will be your coordinator for today. (Operator instructions) As a reminder this conference is being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to turn the presentation over to your host for today's call, Miss Jennifer Bewley, Director of Investor Relations. Please proceed.

Thanks Lacey and good morning everyone. With me on the call today is Scott Melland, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Dice Holdings, along with Michael Durney, Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Please note, this morning we issued a press release describing the company's results for the third quarter of 2008. A copy of that release can be viewed on the company's website at diceholdingsinc.com. In fact, we routinely post all material information to our website and would encourage all investor's to visit the site for more information on the company. Before we begin, I'd like to note that today's call includes certain forward-looking statements, particularly statements regarding future financial and operating results of the company and its businesses. These statements are based on management's current expectations or beliefs and are subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances. Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied by the statements herein due to changes in economics, business, competitive, technological and/or regulatory factors. The principle risks that could cause our business to differ materially from our current expectations are detailed in the company's SEC filings, including our annual report on Form 10K in the sections entitled 'Risk Factors', 'Forward-Looking Statements', and 'Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations'. securities: Today's call also includes certain non-GAAP financial measures, including adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, and free cash flow. For details on these measures including why we use them and reconciliations to the most comparable GAAP measures, please refer to our earning's release and our Form 8-K which has been furnished to the SEC, both of which are available on our website. Now I'll turn the call over to Scott. Scott W. Melland: Thank you, Jennifer. First let me welcome all of you to the Dice Holdings third quarter 2008 conference call. I'll start today by briefly discussing our third quarter performance, including our perspective on current conditions here in the U.S. and elsewhere and how they are impacting our business. Then I'll hand it over to Mike Durney, our CFO, to take you through our financial performance in greater detail and our guidance. After Mike, I'll make a few closing remarks and then we'll open up the call for questions. Now let's briefly discuss the third quarter. Overall we turned in good financial performance, despite market conditions that softened considerably during the quarter. Worldwide revenues increased 3% year-over-year, driven mainly by eFinancialCareers international business, including robust growth in our newer markets, the Asia Pacific region and the Middle East. Profitability remains strong with adjusted EBITDA margins greater than 44%, and we generated more than $13 million in free cash flow for the quarter. In the U.S., DCS Online, which is our largest biggest segment comprised of Dice.com and ClearanceJobs, grew 2% year-over-year. In the Dice business we continue to see solid demand from the larger staffing, recruiting, and consulting companies; however, the recruitment package customer account declined as we lost some small recruiters and direct hiring companies. We continue to see little urgency from customers to sign new agreements, with some customers willing to delay purchase decisions until they have greater clarity in their own businesses, and some having literally no need for the service. Outside the U.S., eFinancialCareers had another solid quarter with revenues up 16% year-over-year. Despite the strong year-over-year performance, customer acquisition and renewals in the U.K. continue to weaken and we now see signs of weakness in continental Europe. The rapidly shifting financial landscape is causing customers to pause to digest what has happened and has prompted some customers to reassess their spending levels. During the quarter, billings in the eFC U.S. declined significantly. While the U.S. is not a larger part of our eFC business overall, the U.S. market which was impacted first by the credit crisis is likely to be an indicator of what we will see in the U.K. and continental Europe going forward. Our newer regions, Asia Pacific and the Middle East, are slowing from their robust growth rates of earlier this year, but we still expect these markets to offset some of the negative impacts from other regions of the world, in fact, these other regions where we are relatively under-penetrated and will continue to focus on expansion. During the quarter, job seeker activity increased significantly for both Dice.com and eFinancialCareers. At Dice we served roughly 1.8 to 2 million unique visitors during the quarter. New resumes posted grew 40% year-over-year and applications were up mid-teens year-over-year. At eFinancial Careers, we served about 1.6 to 1.8 million unique visitors on a worldwide basis. The resume database increased 41% year-over-year worldwide and local applications to local jobs were up 29% year-over-year. Overall, I think our third quarter performance once again demonstrates the strength of our business model. Now let me talk more broadly about what we are experiencing in our businesses. Over this past year, we have seen the market environment move from uncertain to challenging to now difficult in October, and our best guess is that it will continue to be a difficult environment well into 2009. With that said, recruitment activity hasn't stopped. Recruiting continues and will continue, but at a reduced level. In fact, even some high profile financial institutions, which have been at the center of the current turmoil continue to recruit. However, customers are now reassessing their recruiting needs on a case-by-case basis given the uncertainty that they see in their own business. They are taking more time to evaluate their buying decisions, sometimes reducing their service levels, sometimes delaying their purchases, and sometimes cancelling our service altogether. Obviously, this will impact our billings and revenue performance going forward. So what are we going to do about it? First, the center of our business has always been creating strong customer relationships. We are going to focus on maintaining those relationships. It's important that we continue to communicate, to innovate, and to deliver for our customers, even the ones who leave us because we fully expect to get many of those customers back as the market conditions improve. Second, we will continue to grow our current communities, fostering the expansion of our professional communities allows us to better serve and satisfy our customers. In fact, building those communities will largely be an outcome of our third initiative, which is product innovation. We will continue to focus on product development with the goal of better serving our communities and developing additional revenue opportunities. And, finally, we will manage our cost structure. This management team has been together a long time and we've seen much tougher conditions before. As we have done effectively this year, we will take appropriate steps to manage costs with the overriding goal of optimizing our company for the long term. So despite the economic backdrop, we turn in good financial performance in the third quarter, but more importantly, we are preparing our company for the difficult environment we expect to see in the coming months. So, with that, let me turn it over to Mike for more details on the third quarter. Michael P. Durney: Okay, thanks Scott, thanks to everyone for joining us today. I will briefly give you a review of the results for the third quarter and our capital structure and get an updated view of Q4 in light of the changes in the business climate that Scott referred to. In the quarter, total GAAP revenues increased 4% to $39.6 million, driven largely by eFinancialCareers operations outside of the U.S. and, to a lesser extent, the Dice business in the U.S. EFinancialCareers business increased 18% year-over-year measured in dollars. With that, we saw significant growth in EMEA and Asia Pac. Operating income increased 7% to $11 million. We continued to invest more this year in marketing in both Dice and eFinancialCareers, which was partially offset by lower amortization expenses in the quarter. Sales and marketing expense was 36% of revenue in this quarter, compared to 35% in the last year quarter. Adjusted EBITDA, as we reconciled in the press release, was $17.6 million in the third quarter with adjusted EBITDA margins of 44.5%. EBITDA margin is roughly in line with '07's performance. High profitability is one of the two fundamental elements of our financial model. The efficiency and discretionary nature of our cost structure will be a key advantage as we manage through the changing market environment. Moving on, income from continuing operations increased 41% to $6.4 million as our net interest expense declined by $1.1 million, or 36%, partially due to having pre-paid a portion of the outstanding debt balance at the time of the IPO in the third quarter of '07 and, to a lesser extent, as a result of a pre-payment in September of a portion of our term loan, which I'll address in more detail in a few minutes. We discussed in the past the accounting treatment of the interest rate swaps. During the quarter, we recognized $135,000 in pre-tax income as a result of a change in the value of those swaps. It's times like these that they provide significant value as LIBOR's benchmark rate has fluctuated wildly. Our effective tax rate for the quarter was 31% reflecting the favorable impact of a decrease in statutory rates outside the U.S. and adjustments in state tax legislation. Going forward now we expect the tax rate to be about 35%, down slightly from what we previously planned for. And for the quarter, diluted earnings per share increased 43% to $0.10 per share, up from $0.07 per share a year ago. The impact of the lower tax rate of the lower effective income tax rate was about $0.01 per share. Now as for the segments, please remember when we talk about the segments, we refer to their performance including the add-back of the deferred revenue written off for the eFinancialCareers acquisition. This had no impact on the current period, but had a minor impact in the 2007 period, but it does make the comparison more meaningful. This is all outlined in the last page of our press release and, thankfully, this is the last period where it affects the comparison. DCS Online, which represented 69% of our revenue grew 2%, which equates to just under 2% growth for Dice.com and 24% growth at ClearanceJobs. On September 30th, the recruitment package customer account at Dice was 8,800, down 150 from June 30th. We anticipate our recruitment package customer will decline in the fourth quarter, which is a mixture of seasonality and the more difficult business environment. Approximately 82% of our recruitment package customers were under annual contract on September 30th, and our renewal rate on annual contracts was 65%, slightly down from the second quarter rate of 67.5%, which is reflective of a softening environment. Average revenue per recruitment package customer per month was $849 in the quarter, down less than a half of a percent from the previous quarter, and the average length of the contract has been consistent at 10.5 months. Now moving on to the eFinancialCareers segment, revenues increased 16% on a dollar basis and 24% measured in pound sterling. The impact of the strengthening of the dollar versus the pound was nearly $700,000 as compared to the third quarter of last year. For the purpose of the discussion of the regions, to give a comparable assessment, I will give you the figures in pound sterling. In the U.K. revenues increased 3% year-over-year. In the U.K. recruitment activity hasn't stopped, but it certainly has slowed and we expect more of an impact from the financial crisis going forward. We've noted in October the pace of downgrades of service has increased as customer's reassess their future needs in this environment. In the U.K., as well as other markets, the impact of the financial crisis will be felt on the fourth quarter recruitment activity. As is far less likely today, the companies will bring on new people before year-end bonuses are allocated, as compared to prior years where there was less reluctance to take on the bonus obligation in better markets. In the quarter of continental Europe and the Middle East, grew 48% year-over-year with similar sentiment to the U.K., however there are some geographies where we still have customer penetration opportunity, including a few markets in Europe and the Middle East. Finally, Asia Pacific increased 87% in the quarter, which is another region of opportunity mixed with some reduction in recruitment needs. We served the Singapore and Hong Kong market for a little over two years and have had a physical presence in Singapore for about 18 months. While there clearly is some impact from the financial crisis on recruitment activity there, we think since we're in the early stages of developing the market that put the growth opportunities in the near term. One last point on eFinancialCareers, the third quarter of '08 included the revenue generated from our distribution of careers and financial markets to universities in our key markets, which totaled about £250,000 in revenue. In the '07 period, certain of the markets were distributed in the fourth quarter, so the revenue was split between the two quarters. Our other segment which represented 7% of revenues consist of eFinancialCareers business in the U.S. and Canada, JobsintheMoney, and targeted Job Fairs. Other revenues decreased 21% to $2.6 million. The primary driver of the decline was our Job Fair business, which has seen less demand for this type of recruiting and a decline of JobsintheMoney. In the Job Fair business we've had reductions generally in demand in '08 and the third quarter specifically was impacted by a major fair we did in August of '07, which we did not have near the success in the '08 event. So to sum it up, our two core services grew year-over-year in the quarter, Dice at roughly 2%, eFinancialCareers international operations at 24%. We think this performance continues to demonstrate our ability to win business even in a tough environment. In addition, profitability has consistently been strong with adjusted EBITDA margins of 44.5%. So now switching to the balance sheet and the cash flows, the third revenue of September 30th was $44.9 million, up slightly versus the September 30, '07 balance, but down $4.5 million from our June 30 balance. The balance in the U.S. is up slightly year-over-year, although we have fewer customers, while the eFinancialCareers business, while far smaller, was up slightly as well, although the impact to some extent was impacted by exchange rates. I mentioned strong profitability is one of our fundamental elements of solid financial model earlier. The second is cash generation. In the quarter we generated $13.1 million in cash and operations, up 22% versus last year. The CapEx is about $900,000, resulting in free cash flow of $12.3 million in the quarter, up 26% from the third quarter of '07. Year-to-date, we generated more than $50 million in cash and operations and $47 million in free cash flow on adjusted EBITDA of $51.2 million. Although this high level of conversion will not continue as we become a cash tax payer, which we did in the fourth quarter, it continues to demonstrate the cash generating ability of our business, even in a slower environment. securities: In September, we opted to pre-pay $21.4 million of our term loan. Additionally, in mid-October, we pre-paid an additional $18.5 million for a total reduction in the term loan of about $40 million over the last month. These are permanent reductions under the term loan facility. The pre-tax impact of interest reductions resulting in the two pre-payments is approximately $2.2 million on an annual basis. So to recap where we stand today, we have a remaining balance under the term loan of $81.5 million, which is all due in March 2012, other than quarterly amortization payments of $250,000, and we have the $75 million revolver, which is currently totally undrawn. Of the $81.5 million, $80 million is hedged at an average rate of 7.1%, and the remainder is on a floating rate, and we currently intend to pay that down according to the amortization schedule in the agreement. That, however, could change. In regards to acquisition opportunities and international expansion, two of our key growth initiatives and how this debt pre-payment impacts it, it doesn't. Obviously with our current facility in cash on hand, we continue to have the capacity to do acquisitions and do further investments to promote our long term growth strategy. Our facility has restrictions on acquisitions, including size, structure, geography, and terms. Given the credit conditions in the baskets in the facility, we continue to measure acquisition opportunities against what, in this market, should be considered attractive pricing, hedge of about 7.1%. So, for the time being, we have included the negative carry costs of that $40 million outweighed opportunities that would be of a size requiring us to maintain the cash level we had pre-acquisition and pre-payment. By way of comparison, as of today we have more cash than we did in January 1st of this year and $44 million less in debt. So we continue to look for strategic acquisitions and investment opportunities while taking steps to optimize our capital structure. So with that, let's take a look at our updated view of the fourth quarter. We currently expect to generate revenues in the range of $35.5 to $36.5 million, with a distribution of revenues among the segments of roughly 72% for Dice, 22% for eFinancialCareers, and 6% for other. We are providing a wider range than normal, as customer activity of both new and existing is much more uncertain at eFinancialCareers around the year-end holiday period. It generally is a much slower activity time; we expect this year to potentially result in a higher rate of short-term reductions or cancellations than normal prior to the period. A couple of things about the Q4 view, especially when comparing to Q3 results at eFinancialCareers, the third quarter included the results of Careers in Financial Markets, as I mentioned earlier, about £250,000 or $450,000. The movement in the exchange rate between the dollar and the pound sterling at this point is about $0.30 compared to the third quarter. So on a little less than £5 million of revenue; the impact on dollars is about 1.5 million. Better than sterling, Q3 at eFinancialCareers was about £5.2 million with £250,000 related to the Careers in Financial Markets and we expect Q4 to be in the range of £4.6 to £4.8 million, so lower than Q3 by about 5% to 10%. As for sales and marketing expense, we currently have just paid, spending $12.5 to $13 million in the quarter. We traditionally spend less as the percentage of revenue in the fourth quarter and we've made further reductions in this year's fourth quarter given the overall economic conditions. And with those components, with expect the adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of $15.7 to $16.7 million. So at a full year, we now expect revenues in the range of $155 to $156 million, sales and marketing of around $58 million, and we expect the adjusted EBITDA to be at the low end of the previous range, or $67 to $68 million. So to summarize, it's been a challenging market this year with solid financial performance. However, with more difficulty ahead, the financial discipline we've built in this company over the years, the discretionary nature of our marketing investments, and its overall financial model, will certainly continue to benefit with us in this marketplace. And with that, I'll turn it back to Scott. Scott W. Melland: Thanks, Mike. Let me conclude today our formal presentation with a few thoughts. The market environment has definitely weakened over the past months. We believe it will continue to be a difficult environment, well into 2009. When we spoke last quarter, I said that I expected us to execute well on the opportunities that we have. Despite these conditions, I think our third quarter performance lives up to that statement. Our products are performing very well today, we are quite profitable, and we generate a significant amount of cash. In fact, the investments we made in building our professional communities and improving our products over the past years have put us in a position where we can afford to spend less and still deliver a high quality service to our customers. We have always said that we have discretion in managing our cost structure. Going forward, we will use that discretion to manage our costs in this environment. Finally, we are confident in our long term market opportunity, our positioning in the market, and our ability to capitalize on that opportunity. I'd like to thank all of our employees for their ongoing hard work and dedication. Thank you all for listening and now let's open up the call for questions.

(Operator instructions) Our first question will come from the line of John Janedis with Wachovia. Please proceed. John Janedis - Wachovia: Hi, good morning. Can you guys talk a bit about more on the Dice business? Obviously it's changed a lot since the last employment downturn, but can you give us a sense of maybe what the renewals were back in the '01, '02, or '03 timeframe? Scott W. Melland: Yes, John. We used to track it slightly differently so I can't compare apples to apples, but I can tell you that in the '01 period, we saw customer account reductions in the many hundreds per month. So the customer retention rate was far lower than we've seen now because the customer distribution was far different back then. It was much more dominated by entities that don't exist anymore. I guess I would add to that that this environment is not even close to what we saw in '01 and '02 in terms of what happened with many technology companies essentially just dumping their people on the street. This is not that environment at all. John Janedis - Wachovia: Okay. And maybe somewhat related, you implied eFC growth estimates for 4Q shows pretty rapid deceleration there. I know the contract structures have been different from Dice, but how are the relative renewal rates looking from one to the other? Michael P. Durney: Yes, the contract, we don't talk about renewal rates at eFC. The contracts, they are different, they are adjustable or cancelable on notice despite the fact that they're annual agreements. Customers can typically adjust them. We have seen some, we have certainly seen more recently than we saw during the third quarter and earlier in the year, but I have to say we haven't seen a lot of them. John Janedis - Wachovia: Okay and maybe just one last quick one. Given the comments about increases in total resume volume, is there a way that you're working on to maybe try to monetize that increase there? Scott W. Melland: Well, one of the things that we are working on and, in fact, we launched a product during the quarter in sort of a test mode launch, we worked on a product called Dice Advantage, which is a service that is sold directly to the job seekers, which provides certain benefits to them, enable them to have highlighted listing of their resume in the resume database, gives them the opportunity to see who has viewed their resume. So it has some nice kind of premium services that are not available for the regular rank and file of user of our service. So we are looking at ways of monetizing, if you will, the job seeker traffic. We're also looking at expanding our advertising programs, but again, third party advertising, in other words, advertising that appears on the site that's not a job posting, has never been a big focus of our service and I don't think ever really will be a big focus of our service because we want to maintain a very strong relationship with the technology professionals and the financial services professionals. John Janedis - Wachovia: Alright, thank you very much.

And our next question will come from the line of Doug Anmuth with Barclays Capital. Please proceed. Douglas Anmuth - Barclays Capital: Thanks for taking my question. Just regarding your EBITDA margins, you really have been able to hold them pretty consistent with the last couple of years despite the slowdown. So what gives you comfort that you're going to be able to continue to do that going forward, even potentially in a more difficult operating environment, and where else do you look to take out potential costs, and I have a follow-up, as well. Thanks. Scott W. Melland: Well, I think one of the reasons we feel confident that we can manage the cost structure is that we have spent a considerable amount of money over the last three to four years, really building up, essentially doing two things. Building up the traffic and the activity on the site, if you look at the growth in our traffic and the activity level in terms of applications and resumes, it's huge compared to where we were two or three years ago. And the service performance is very strong today. If we believe that we're heading into an environment where there may be fewer recruiters using a service or there may be fewer jobs actually being searched for in the service, we feel t hat we've got the flexibility with the current level of traffic and the current community size to pull back if we need to on certain of our marketing programs. Outside of marketing, we always look at things like where are we spending in terms of technology, where are we spending in terms of other infrastructure. But that's more of an ongoing activity for us. Douglas Anmuth - Barclays Capital: And then can you also just comment on pricing in the current environment. You've said in the past that some of your competitors have been pretty aggressive in terms of discounting. I assume that's continuing in the current environment, is that fair? Scott W. Melland: Yes, I think that's a fair statement. Pricing, what we've seen over the last quarter, as it has been really the whole year, pricing has been more aggressive than what we saw last year versus this year. I think in the last quarter, it also got a little bit more aggressive with more promotion. A lot of that, I think, has to do with some of the market share wars that are going on between some of the larger players. Douglas Anmuth - Barclays Capital: Okay, great. Thank you.

And our next question will come from the line of Tim McHugh of William Blair and Company. Timothy McHugh - William Blair and Company: Yes, I was wondering, you mentioned the eFC trends that you've seen in the U.S. might be a precursor to what you expect to see internationally. I was wondering if you could therefore provide a little more color and what you did see in the U.S. during the last quarter or two? Scott W. Melland: In general what we saw in the U.S., and remember, I think to keep it in context the eFC business in the U.S. is very small. It's only been operating for a little over two years and it has been hit by this financial crisis, really for over the last year. o it's a very small part of the business. What we saw was given the upheaval that has really happened over the last I think you could call it probably six to eight weeks, many of the customers are basically sitting back and they're digesting what's going on. There's still a lot of recruiting that's happening. I mean, interestingly enough we've actually had calls from people saying, look, is there still recruiting going on? There is still recruiting going on in the U.S., but what we saw was that many of these larger banks, many of the recruiters that serve those banks have paused and are trying to absorb what's happened. And look, they're all looking at what their needs are going to be in the short term and then what their needs are going to be into 2009. So we did see billings decline in the quarter and I think as we see the same kind of reaction happening in the UK and in parts of continental Europe I think we could see the same kind of downturn in billing. Michael P. Durney: Yes Tim, this is Mike, sorry. Just to put some context, I think Scot was talking about the overall market, not necessarily the precursor of what our financial performance be Scot mentioned even (inaudible) in the U.S. is a tiny piece of our business grouped in with other and measured year-over-year, the decline in (inaudible) careers is about 5%. Tim McHugh - William Blair & Company: That's in the U.S.? Michael P. Durney: Yes. Tim McHugh - William Blair & Company: Okay. And then on the acquisition front, you mentioned that it's something you'd consider. Does the current environment make you more likely to do a transaction given pricing may finally be coming down or does it make you pause at all to move forward with something in this environment? Scott W. Melland: We still continue to look at acquisition opportunities and would love to be able to expand the business that way either into another industry or vertical area or into a position in an attractive country market somewhere in the world. We have yet to basically come to terms that we think we can do attractively for the company. So we continue to be out there but have yet to see real valuations adjust much. Michael P. Durney: I think, and we've said this all along and I think it's as true now as it's been all year and last year is that the properties that we really like and are attractive that the price of those doesn't change a whole lot. It might on the margin but it doesn't change a lot. And the ones that we don't particularly think are key, which we've seen come back to us perhaps a few times at lower prices. We continue to think our key strategically. The environment does make us balance the current business versus other vertical opportunities. Tim McHugh - William Blair & Company: Okay, then lastly can I ask about jobs and the money? You mentioned it was weak in the quarter. What's your plans at this point for that business going forward? Scott W. Melland: Well, what we did over the -- a little over a year ago is we relaunched the site. We gave it a new website, a new functionality. Basically brought it up to speed from where it had existed when we acquired the business along with eFinaical careers at the end of 2006. This past year we put marketing dollars into it, we built the traffic. I think where we are with that business is that we're going to continue to let that business be out there and be a product for our company, but it's not a major focus of the business going into next year. And I think that's really the right decision given the environment that we're looking at. Tim McHugh - William Blair & Company: Okay, thank you.

And our next question will come from the line of Imran Khan with JP Morgan. Please proceed. Imran Khan - JP Morgan: Yes, hi, thank you for taking my question. A couple of questions over the cost structure try to better understand that. Some of the newer business, that newer country business that you think will help the revenue growth rate, could you help us understand the cost structure of those businesses, whether how much margins drag those businesses could be. And secondly, looking at the sales and marketing, what percentage of sales and marketing is -- I look at it to advertising. And third, how much of your sales force compensation component is commission versus fixed salary? Thank you. Scott W. Melland: Okay. So I guess starting with the question about new countries, really many of these new areas like Asia, like the Middle East, some of the developing parts of Europe, we're still talking about very small amounts of marketing dollars put against them. You know, we're talking in the hundreds of thousands of dollars rather than the millions of dollars. So it's very sensible for us to continue to grow the marketing in those territories to increase the local applications for local jobs. So it's not a big expense; not a very big expense item for the company. On the sales and marketing front, roughly 75% of the marketing that we do is job seeker marketing or professional community marketing versus the customer side of it. That is the part of our marketing programs that are dedicated to building the communities. I think one thing to keep in perspective, and we've mentioned this from time to time, for many of our services, the majority of the traffic that we get is self-generated traffic. It comes over the trans now. The paid portion of our traffic is actually quite small. For example, for dice.com, the paid portion of the traffic is only about 20%. So even though we spend think a great deal of money today in job seeker or community marketing, it only produces a small amount of the overall traffic that we get. And that's part of the equation that we look at when we're looking at managing that cost line at them. I think your last question was about sales force compensation. Our sales teams wave direct sales teams. We have telemarketing groups and such. A great deal of their compensation, much more than 50% of their compensation is variable and based upon performance. It's actually closer to probably about two-thirds of their compensation. Imran Khan - JP Morgan: Got it. Thank you.

And our next question will come from the line of Collis Boyce with Morgan Stanley. Please proceed. Collis Boyce - Morgan Stanley: Thank you. One -- I guess this is a little bit of a longer-term question, but one of the things historically that you've talked about is IT in financial verticals benefiting potentially down the road from when the baby boom generation has to retire. Assuming that some of those people are going to have to work longer now, does that impact kind of your thought process on the business going out, say, the next five to ten years? Scott W. Melland: It's possible that you could see people working longer, but if you look at some of the forecasts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other organizations, the general forces that are going on out there that are good for our lines of business, our segments are really two-fold. One is that on the demand side, the demand for technical people, for knowledge workers and on the financial aside, the demand for knowledge workers in the finance area is expected increase really for the foreseeable future. On the financial side of things, I think there is going to be a digestion over the next couple of years as that whole industry shakes itself out. but we'll probably see good demand for those people, those skillets, because those areas, raising capital and distributing capital and managing assets aren't going away. So you've got demand side, a push on that or a pull on that. On the supply side, you still have a pretty substantial demographic shift that is coming and so I think as we think about our business we really don't see those two dynamics changing much. They might change slightly on the margin but we think it's still favorable for us in the long term.

And then, I guess, one quick follow-up. I understand that you guys don't necessarily want to charge the job seeker. I guess previously you guys had talked about premium posts. Are there any other kind of small kind of little incremental revenue streams that you guys might be able to try to offset some of the kind of lack of selling? Scott W. Melland: Yeah, we're always thinking about and looking at new revenue streams for the business. You mentioned premium post. We launched that; that's the premium service specifically for HR managers in direct hiring companies and has been a nice boost to us. I just mentioned a few moments ago Dice Advantage, which is a package of services for the job seeker. That literally has just launched, so we think that will be a nice, small revenue stream for us. We're looking at different types of value-added advertising. We think we have very attractive audiences that use our various services and we're looking at ways that we can create, add products that are value-add to the job seeker or the professional, as well as to the advertisers rather than being obstructing what the job-seeker and professional was trying to do. And we think we have a few ideas there and you may see us do some of that over the coming months. Collis Boyce - Morgan Stanley: Thank you very much.

And our next question will come from the line of Youssef Squali from Jefferies & Company. Please proceed. Youssef Squali - Jefferies & Company: Thank you very much. A couple questions. First, Scott, if I look at your Q4 guidance it basically implies that year-on-year decline for both Dice and eFC. And from where you sit today, can you realistically see a scenario for top line growth next year? And second, Mike, you talked earlier about managing cost structure. Your EBITDA margin is already running in the mid-40s. It's one of the highest of any companies we cover. As you tested your models for what next year or for how high can it go, how much more kind of room, head room do you think you have? Scott W. Melland: So on the fourth quarter and what it means for 2009, you're absolutely right. We are showing year-over-year declines with our guidance for the fourth quarter and that is really a product of what we've seen happen in the environment in the third quarter and so we think we're being prudent by setting that guidance. As we go into 2009 I think the implication is that from where we sit today we believe 2009 the environment will be as difficult as is today and potentially even more difficult. And so either a scenario where there could be growth. I guess you could think of one but I think the realistically we're probably looking -- we're not looking at growth in 2009. Michael P. Durney: Yes, just to follow-up on that and then I want to get a clarification on the second quarter. On Q4 guidance, you're right, there's a decline year-over-year just to break it down a little bit. DCS online business, Dice clearance jobs. You know, it's probably in the low single digits year-over-year to climb. eFC measured in dollars is probably 25 to 20% decline, measured in pounds it's roughly flat. So I just want to point out how we look at the business in terms of constant currency versus dollar measure terms. So I'm sure you know that but we'll just put that in some perspective. When you asked about stress testing the margins, you asked about I think, I just wanted to clarify, you asked about how high they can go. Is that what you asked? Youssef Squali - Jefferies & Company: Yes. Michael P. Durney: Yes, I think in short terms they can certainly go higher. I think if we're talking about the environment we're in and back to the question that Doug asked earlier is there are certainly, as we've said many times, there's a fair amount of flexibility in the cost structure to the extent that we're in a worsening market, we can make some adjustments to that cost structure and maintain the margins. The environment continues to get worse, which is what we think will happen in the near-term, will be pressure on the margins although we don't think it at this moment an awful lot, but there will be some. On the higher side we've always said we think 45 over a long period is the upper boundary. It certainly can be higher in short periods of time as it has been and it might be in the future, for very short periods of time because of the matching of where we spend our sales and marketing versus the revenue we recognize. So there certainly is an upper boundary. It's not much higher than where we are now. but over the long term we continue to think and this hasn't changed, that the upper boundary is around 45 or the mid 40s. did that answer your question? Youssef Squali - Jefferies & Company: Yeah, no that's helpful. Thanks a lot.

(Operator instructions) Our next question will come from the line of Mark May with Needham. Please proceed. Mark May - Needham: Oh, thanks. I think most of my questions have been answered, but I will ask, have you noticed any change over the last couple of months given the environment in terms of the M&A market? Do you think that the current market and environment will end up being a catalyst for consolidation in your industry, based not just on theory but specifically on the kinds of discussions and things that you have been seeing in the last few months? Scott W. Melland: I think in general you will probably call this theory but in general I think these types of markets do foster M&A discussions. But there's nothing that I can point to.

And at this time we have no questions in queue. I would now like to turn the call back over to Jennifer Bewley for a closing remark.

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