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COPYRIGHT 2001 The Dallas Morning News
Byline: James Pecht
Mar. 25--When Giselle Drouillard lost her job at Nortel Networks in January, she could have adopted an attitude of hopelessness -- that she wouldn't find a new tech job in this slowing economy.
Instead, she took action.
"I figure if I'm not supposed to be here, then there's somewhere else I'm supposed to be," she said. "And I've got to go find out where that is."
Ms. Drouillard, former marketing manager for the Wireless Internet group in Richardson, was one of 10,000 Nortel workers worldwide whose jobs were cut. She heard about a group of newly unemployed Nortel workers at the company's headquarters in Ottawa who had created a Web site, hiretoptalent.com, as a kind of job board featuring the resumes of hundreds of displaced...
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