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EnticeLabs Receives $2 Million from First Advantage and Omniture Founders

September 28th, 2009

Welcome news to the ears of the great team at EnticeLabs, First Advantage and Omniture’s founders Josh James and John Pestana have chipped in $2 Million in funding to add to the $1.3 Million the Provo, Utah startup has already received in the past. Techcrunch broke the news earlier today.

Over the past few years, the company has been developing the TalentSeekr recruiting engine, which proactively helps companies place targeted recruitment advertising in front of specific candidates that fit a reasonable set of criteria, determined within milliseconds by the EnticeLabs servers.

In May, Ryan Probasco and Grant Gordon appeared on the Couchcast show I host to talk about the technology.

Way to go, team!

Transparency: I am loosely affiliated with EnticeLabs.

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Salt Lake City, Utah Ranks 5th Best US Market for Job Seekers

September 2nd, 2009

Data released today by job aggregation service SimplyHired shows that Salt Lake City ranks fifth of the top five markets for job seekers when comparing the number of job-seekers for each unique job.

The rankings were “determined by the ratio of job seekers to unique open positions (duplicates removed) in metro areas around the country.” Utah’s capital, Salt Lake City (Jobsearch), and presumably surrounding metro areas such as Ogden and Provo/Orem fared well in the overall list, opposed to nearby Las Vegas, which has 26 candidates for every unique job opening.

SimplyHired revealed their findings only on the top and bottom 15 markets. Regional areas such as Denver, Colorado Springs, Albequerque, Phoenix, Boise, Reno and others were not included in either of these lists.

Salt Lake City, Utah Ranks 5th overall in best cities to find a job, according to data released today by SimplyHired.com

These are interesting statistics, for sure. There are a few caveats I see that you should consider as well:

These data do not seem to specify if the candidats for each job are qualified for it or not. This can either mean the actual number of candidates for a given position is actually less, or it may mean that companies are hiring for positions that our population does not support (which requires relocation).
These data are statistically approximated, but we do not know if or how these data include information such as:
- Passive candidates who are not looking for work (and therefore do not search for jobs) but still change jobs thanks to personal referrals or other reasons.
- “Tip-toers”… people who are well-employed, but “google” around for jobs, but don’t jump at anything because the opportunity they currently have is sufficient than the opportunities they see.
- Hidden jobs that are never posted openly because candidates are hired from within and/or hired through personal networks.

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Presentation Tonight: Career Growth in a Shrinking Economy

November 12th, 2008

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.

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What Are The Best Companies to Work For in America?

November 10th, 2008

Annually, Fortune Magazine highlights the 100 best companies to work for in the US. Thanks to the economic downturn, many people are looking to recession-proof their jobs, and part of that includes changing jobs.

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.


.	Rank	Company	Job growth	U.S. employees
.	1	Google	60%	8134
.	2	Quicken Loans	68%	4920
.	3	Wegmans Food Markets	4%	35302
.	4	Edward Jones	5%	31451
.	5	Genentech	9%	10842
.	6	Cisco Systems	17%	32160
.	7	Starbucks	15%	134013
.	8	Qualcomm	15%	10095
.	9	Goldman Sachs	10%	13764
.	10	Methodist Hospital System	11%	10481
.	11	Boston Consulting Group	8%	1543
.	12	Nugget Markets	20%	1322
.	13	Umpqua Bank	25%	1788
.	14	Network Appliance	25%	4481
.	15	W. L. Gore & Associates	6%	5211
.	16	Whole Foods Market	11%	41385
.	17	David Weekley Homes	-11%	1450
.	18	OhioHealth	4%	11254
.	19	Arnold & Porter	-3%	1272


.	20	Container Store	5%	3019
.	21	Principal Financial Group	3%	13438
.	22	American Century Investments	-5%	1694
.	23	JM Family Enterprises	4%	4609
.	24	American Fidelity Assurance	1%	1376
.	25	Shared Technologies	28%	1401
.	26	Stew Leonard’s	13%	2282
.	27	S.C. Johnson & Son	0%	3419
.	28	QuikTrip	-5%	9630
.	29	SAS Institute	-1%	5153
.	30	Aflac	5%	4475
.	31	Alston & Bird	0%	1762
.	32	Rackspace Managed Hosting	38%	1443
.	33	Station Casinos	6%	14920
.	34	Recreational Equipment (REI)	19%	9137
.	35	TDIndustries	19%	1595
.	36	Nordstrom	0%	49769
.	37	Johnson Financial Group	12%	1259
.	38	Kimley-Horn & Associates	9%	2368
.	39	Robert W. Baird	0%	2093


.	40	Adobe Systems	8%	3900
.	41	Bingham McCutchen	0%	1652
.	42	MITRE	5%	6037
.	43	Intuit	11%	7635
.	44	Plante & Moran	0%	1522
.	45	Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta	3%	5427
.	46	CarMax	13%	14223
.	47	J. M. Smucker	7%	3042
.	48	Devon Energy	15%	3368
.	49	Griffin Hospital	4%	1133
.	50	Camden Property Trust	-5%	1894
.	51	Paychex	7%	11622
.	52	FactSet Research Systems	21%	1102
.	53	Vision Service Plan	6%	2052
.	54	CH2M HILL	-2%	15674
.	55	Perkins Coie	6%	1629
.	56	Scripps Health	6%	11223
.	57	Ernst & Young	4%	25947
.	58	Scottrade	13%	1584
.	59	Mayo Clinic	4%	41004


.	60	Alcon Laboratories	6%	6848
.	61	Chesapeake Energy	15%	5752
.	62	American Express	4%	30162
.	63	King’s Daughters Medical Center	13%	2934
.	64	EOG Resources	17%	1388
.	65	Russell Investments	5%	1267
.	66	Nixon Peabody	9%	1728
.	67	Valero Energy	-8%	17488
.	68	eBay	13%	7769
.	69	General Mills	-2%	17090
.	70	Mattel	2%	5000
.	71	KPMG	8%	22857
.	72	Marriott International	-2%	123203
.	73	David Evans & Associates	9%	1085
.	74	Granite Construction	6%	4650
.	75	Southern Ohio Medical Center	7%	2032
.	76	Arkansas Children’s Hospital	8%	3283
.	77	PCL Construction Enterprises	18%	3558
.	78	Navy Federal Credit Union	15%	6069
.	79	National Instruments	3%	2353


.	80	Healthways	42%	3730
.	81	Booz Allen Hamilton	7%	17650
.	82	Nike	4%	14570
.	83	AstraZeneca	5%	12810
.	84	Stanley	7%	2756
.	85	Lehigh Valley Hospital & Health Network	9%	8420
.	86	Microsoft	8%	47645
.	87	Yahoo	16%	7915
.	88	Four Seasons Hotels	21%	12851
.	89	Bright Horizons Family Solutions	7%	14660
.	90	PricewaterhouseCoopers	5%	29818
.	91	Publix Super Markets	5%	142084
.	92	Milliken	-8%	8800
.	93	Erickson Retirement Communities	14%	10248
.	94	Baptist Health South Fla.	4%	9838
.	95	Deloitte & Touche USA	7%	36517
.	96	Herman Miller	14%	6063
.	97	FedEx	8%	228211
.	98	Sherwin-Williams	1%	29554
.	99	SRA International	6%	5200


.	100	Texas Instruments	-1%	15051

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.

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Social Networks Keep You In Touch & Relevant: Utah CEO Magazine

November 7th, 2008

I was quoted, along with my friend Jason Alba, in Utah CEO Magazine’s november issue, an article called “Making Connections” by Kevin Canterra. Here’s a snippet:

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.”

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All A Twitter

September 22nd, 2008

Yeah, twitter is addictive. It’s fun. It’s compelling. Here’s a few tips to help newbies to twitter get the feel of it a little faster:

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.”