Presentation Tonight: Career Growth in a Shrinking Economy

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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Geek Dinner Thursday 7-31 at Paradise Bakery

Looking for the Utah geeks, bloggers and coders? You’ll find them at the Utah Geek/Blogger Dinner. This month, we’re meeting at Paradise Bakery. If you have been feeling lonely for computer conversation in the Salt Lake Valley, you’ll find it all here!
THEY HAVE WI-FI, so you can bring your laptop if you want!
RSVP at Upcoming.org: [...]

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Utah Jobs Growing

Matthew Reinbold was kind enough to use a few of my comments in a recent piece on Utah Job Growth at UtahPulse.com.
Here’s some of the takeaways:
“Unemployment is still below the generally-accepted measure for ‘full-employment’ of 4-5%,” Robert Merrill, Technical Account Manager for SOS Engineering and Technology, said. “This means that people who would otherwise choose [...]

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4 Factors Creating Utah Workforce Funk

There’s no question something interesting is happening with Utah’s professional/technical workforce right now, and I think there are no less than four competing factors at play any business-owner should be paying very close attention to:

Real and Wage Inflation
Intense Competition for Talent
Corporate cost-cutting
High Energy/Commute Costs

The hardest part to pin-down is that the economic indicators show a [...]

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Utah Tries Four Day Work-Week

On August 4th, Utah will begin its move to a four-day work week, a move that should save up to about 20% of the state’s expenses by 2015.
The change will apply to about 17,000 employees, roughly 80% of the state workforce, [Utah State Governor] Huntsman says. Public universities, the state court system, prisons and other [...]

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Job Trends: Moonlight, Part-Time Desired by Candidates

It’s likely a result of the current economy, but we have noticed a very high percentage of people coming to us and looking for part-time or extra work on graveyards/evenings/weekends.
These are generally very talented individuals who like their current job/employer, but are looking for additional work to take on.
Likewise, these same people are usually willing [...]

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Calendar: May CTO Forum Friday (Tomorrow)

One of my favorite events each month is coming up tomorrow (Friday, 5/30). Phil Windley’s CTO Forum/Breakfast at the Novell Cafeteria in Provo (map).
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Anyone interested in how information technology is used to build products or run companies. Despite it’s name, you don’t have to be a CTO to attend—just interested in technology, where [...]

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CouchCast Interviewing Brad Baldwin of Rocky Mountain Voices

Today, on the couch, we have Brad Baldwin of Rocky Mountain Voices. He’s interviewed some very interesting companies lately, and he’s coming on the show today to talk to us about it.

Showtime is HIGH NOON (Mountain). Listen in at (347) 324-3797 (limited lines) or stream online with a chat-room at couchcast.org. Download the show as [...]

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Podcamp SLC is THIS Saturday 3-15-2008

Details from Laura Moncur:
Thom Allen and Brad Baldwin are sponsoring PodCampSLC in Salt Lake City THIS Saturday March 15, 2008 a10am - 4pm at the Neumont University.
10701 S. River Front Parkway, Suite 300
South Jordan, UT 84095
http://podcamp.pbwiki.com/PodCampSLC
It’s a BarCamp for new media: blogging, podcasting, vlogging, etc. If you are a blogger, this is the event that [...]

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APX ALARM of Provo, Utah is a Thief and a Liar.

October 2008: UPDATE: APX has solved this concern to my satisfaction. I don’t think I could recommend them to anybody, but I am personally OK with how things worked out. Thanks to all your comments and links to help bring this to a reasonable resolution.
I hope this blog post gets to the very top of [...]

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