Back at the height of the boom, Mark Herle-man spent many a heady day advising corporate j clients on which tech-nologies best suited their needs. But last February, Herleman's employer, FreeMarkets Inc., a Pittsburgh company that creates online corporate exchanges, gave him the pink slip. His job prospects got so bleak that Herleman took a gig digging ditches at a cemetery. It wasn't until April that the 25-year-old left his shovel behind. He landed a job at consulting giant Accen-ture Ltd.'s supply-chain practice, where he'll help companies buy more goods online. "I went from high tech to low tech to high tech again," Herleman says. "It was such a relief." For the first time in three years, the tech job market is showing signs of life. After losing some 900,000 jobs since April, 2001, the industry created 2,600 jobs in February and added 11,600 more in March, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And with the tech recovery gaining steam, that appears to be just the beginning.
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