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Utah’s 55,000 Unemployed to Receive Help Through Free Job Postings at UtahTechJobs.com

September 25th, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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PROVO, Utah (September 25, 2009) – Attempting to help the 55,000 newly unemployed professionals in Utah this year, the website www.UtahTechJobs.com has announced free job postings for any company seeking to hire Utah-based technical professionals, effective immediately.

“55,000 people lost their jobs in Utah in the last twelve months. That is staggering,” says Robert Merrill, who runs the career-focused website, UtahTechJobs.com. “There are excellent, talented people in our state who are out of work right now simply because they don’t know about the hidden job market.”  Merrill, who is also founder of Utah-based recruiting consulting company Merrill|Recruiting, believes the free job postings will help companies list more positions than they otherwise would, which cold put more people back to work.

He hopes this free service will help Utah-based companies, especially small-to-medium sized businesses and startups with tight recruiting budgets to advertise more positions to his website’s audience, which is primarilly entry-mid career, college-educated technical professionals in Computer Science, Information Technology and Engineering disciplines.

“Career experts agree that finding a niche or local job board is critical,” says Jason Alba, CEO of Utah-based JibberJobber.com and creator of LinkedIn for Job Seekers. “If you are in a search for a technical position you should obviously be on Dice.com, which is a large board, but to find UtahTechJobs.com is a gem because it is local and specific to tech jobs – two key factors in narrowing down what job boards you should spend time on.”

Hiring managers or recruiters may visit www.UtahTechJobs.com and click “Submit A Job Posting” in the banner to begin the simple, one-step process. Free registration on the website allows quick and easy posting in the future with certain information pre-filled for convenience. Other services such as automatic collection and dissemination of jobs from a company’s website and post-by-email services are also expected to be announced soon.

About Merrill|Recruiting

Robert Merrill has assisted or consulted some of Utah’s most-respected technology companies and organizations with their recruiting including FamilyLink, Omniture, Novell, Mozy, EnticeLabs, IMFlash, L-3 Communications and more. His firm specializes in helping small-to-medium businesses and startups with on-site, on-demand or virtual recruiting solutions. Their base, flat-fee service model provides dedicated, local recruiting services for less than the cost of hiring a high-school student.  Additional, custom recruiting services are available as well. More information can be found at www.merrillrecruiting.com.

Contact:
Robert Merrill
801-228-0529
robert@merrillrecruiting.com

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Writing An Effective Online Job Posting

September 14th, 2009

job_postingIf you’re going to post a job online, you should take the time to do it right, or you’re opening yourself up to a flood of unqualified resumes (and people you have to follow up with that never should have applied in the first-place).

Most job postings do a reasonable job of bragging about a company, but the best ones focus on what is in it for the candidate.  Here’s a good outline of how your job description could be formed:

  • Job Title – Company name – Location
  • Description of the opportunities available for the right person.
  • List the KSAs required for the job, the knowledge, skills and abilities a person will need to succeed in the role.  This listing should include degrees or education that are needed, and you should designate if certain things are optional, as opposed to required.
  • Finally, describe your company’s culture, available benefits, and other items about your culture, the job location or other things pertaining to the lifestyle people would have working with you.

Overall, when writing your job posting, remember to put yourself in the candidate’s shoes.  Job seekers today want to know what’s in it for them, and will go far and wide to find it (or leave when you don’t provide it). Millennials (Gen Y) are the most-aggressive in this category.

There are some good suggestions online you can follow, such as this post at CollegeRecruiter, and this post about writing a job advertisement not a description.  You may want to consider your overall website as well, following tips from this post about how to use your company’s website better for job-postings.

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