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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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Though I am a recruiter, I come from a background in business and technology.  I am fascinated by system improvements and changing the status-quo.  Doing it the “way its been done” just doesn’t cut it anymore.

With that in mind, I am pleased to announce that Merrill|Recruiting is offering services specially designed for small/medium and startup businesses that need recruiting assistance, but do not need full-time recruiting staff.  Your company gets years of recruiting experience for less cost than hiring a high-school student.

This form of on-demand recruiting will enable companies to get a local, dedicated recruiter who actually gets to know your company’s needs, culture and unique environment.  Your recruiter will provide regular on-site support (at least 4 hours a week) and will leverage our entire company’s resources to help improve your company’s recruiting process from end-to-end, at no additional charge.

We have solutions for marketing jobs, gathering candidates, electronically managing candidate flow, and we will screen candidates and help your company hire the right people… the first time.

This is ideally suited for small/medium companies which anticipate hiring between 1-10 people per month at salary ranges less than $50k/yr.

Custom services are also available such as external recruiting vendor management, applicant tracking system installation and maintenance, building your own search-engine friendly jobs and career site, and assisting companies with recruiting in various real-world scenarios (like job fairs) and virtual situations like facebook. Occasional high-end ($50k+) recruiting tasks can be done as well, at rates far below what large agencies demand.

When you’re ready to hire better people and improve your bottom-line, let’s talk — 801-228-0529 or robert @ merrillrecruiting.com