The concept for ComputerJobs.com was created as an extension to Mike Gilfillan's successful book about contracting, Atlanta's Project Based Computer Jobs, published in 1995. While writing the book and working as a computer programmer in Atlanta, Mike realized that it was not obvious to many computer professionals that good job hunting skills had become as important to their careers as keeping up with the latest technologies. He also realized that looking for a job in the Sunday newspaper was about as inefficient as using a punch card and nearly as frustrating, for both the job seeker and the job advertiser. At the same time, Mike began to hear fellow programmers talk of a hot new technology called the Internet.

Mike and Nancy Gilfillan saw that computer professionals would be quick to embrace the Internet and that people generally search for a job in the city in which they live. With this in mind, the couple created a Web page, or site, called the Atlanta ComputerJobs Store and put it on the Internet in May of 1995. Contracting firms were eager to attract some of the thousands of computer professionals already using this new computer network and faxed over their open requirements to be listed on the site. The word spread quickly among Atlanta programmers that there was a cool new way to find a job - free on the Internet at www.ComputerJobs.com. By the end of 1995, the Atlanta ComputerJobs Store listed several hundred jobs from 27 contracting firms, had hundreds of visitors and was generating revenue from the start, no small feat for a startup Internet company.