I’m speaking tonight at the Salt Lake ColdFusion User Group at 4:30 on “Career Growth in a Shrinking Economy”

Career Growth in Shrinking Economy
In the last SLCFUG meeting for the year Robert Merrill from Utah Tech Jobs will join us. He will be speaking on how to grow one’s career in difficult times.
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Watch here for the slide deck after the presentation.

Here’s the latest list (below), from the February 4, 2008 edition.  Find the full Fortune 100 list online.

It’s worth noting that eBay is the only company listed on the Fortune 100 that is in Utah.

Notes:
N.A.: Not available. U.S. employees includes part-timers as of time of survey. Job growth, new jobs, and voluntary turnover are full-time only. Revenues are for 2006 or latest fiscal year. All data based on U.S. employees.
* Average annual pay: yearly pay rate plus additional cash compensation for the largest classification of full-time salaried and hourly employees.

Network success

For business professionals looking for a better job or trying to advance in a current ne, “LinkedIn is the [social networking presence] you absolutely have to have,” says Jason Alba, the CEO and founder of JibberJobber.com, a Herriman-based company that provides Web resources for job seekers.

“If you are a professional who wants real value, [LinkedIn] allows you to, one, find people, and two, be found by people. If you don’t do anything else, you must have a profile,” says Alba, who wrote a book on the subject: I’m on LinkedIn–Now What???

“I get e-mails every day from people who use their [LinkedIn] connections to improve their situation,” he says.

It worked for Robert Merrill, a computer programmer [technical recruiter] who has been on LinkedIn for about six years. His connections have helped him land jobs and helped him find the resources to create his weekly Internet podcast, “Couchcast.”

Social networking “is a very lightweight way to stay in touch and stay relevant,” Merrill says. “I connect with people I have had meaningful interactions with, [and] that gives me the chance to connect with literally millions of other people.”

• SheGeeks’ Twitter 101 post gives pretty good clarification on following other people. In short, give people a reason to follow you before following them. The difference between a friend and a stalker is that you know who your friends are
  “When you first start Twitter, you should build up your stream first. Send out about 20 messages that actually mean something. Talk about your interest, something cool that you like, or something you found out about today. This way, people can get a better feel for how beneficial you’d be to them if they followed you in return.”
• Sarah Hurd points to Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang). as a great example of twittering “right”:
  “He uses a great mixture of providing helpful and relevant content, championing others, networking, asking questions to generate conversations, providing rundowns of events he’s attending, and laughing about life.”
• Charlotte-Ann Lucas, a journalist, says it this way:

  “Twitter is community.It can be like sitting with your friends on a coast-to-coast couch, eavesdropping on a national conversation.”

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