UtahTech Jobs

How are salaries shaping up? Take a look at PayScale’s annual infographic on the matter: Related Posts:Wanted: Real, CREATIVE ways to cut commute costs. NOW.Size Matters? How Big is your Ideal Company?Still Sending Out Resumes? You’re Doing it WrongSeeking Advice on Salary NegotiationsLayoffs and Restructure at Google

MTV (which, according to some sources used to play actual music videos) is asking the twitterverse and its audience to help them find the first ever TJ – Tweet Jockey, a social-media maven they will pay $100k to twitterfy the universe with MTV-rich goodness 24/7/365 Turn your tweets into a $100k job at MTV! MTV [...]

A colleague of mine is doing a presentation on Salary, or Offer Negotiations and I thought it might be interesting to experiment with a little crowd-sourcing. Please comment or blog about this topic and link back here so I can see your thoughts on the matter.  The commenting tool below should allow you to easily [...]

A friend asked me last night for some advice in his job situation.  He’s been there only a short time, and interested in long-term salary increases and other promotions, etc. He was, in effect, asking me how and when to negotiate your next moves within a company. How to do this? LISTEN TO YOUR COACH [...]

Salt Lake Tribune: Average weekly wages in Utah increased faster in the first quarter of 2006 than elsewhere in the nation, underscoring the state’s economic health and shedding light on its unique population structure. Related Posts:Happiness Can Make You Rich?Bozofication Alive and Well: Utah Companies Will Pay for StupidityCompare Salaries By LocationSalary Comparison ToolWanted: Real, [...]

I am still jiving over Indeed’s new tool for Salary Search. I was just mashing up some results when I realized the tool nicely allows comparison of salary among localities, or globally (as far as Indeed’s system is concerned, anyway). I started comparing my local market (Utah) to the Indeed global market, not suprized to [...]

Ever since I heard about Indeed, I have been a fan. Aggregated jobs search results in one place–alerts by email or RSS/XML. Back in April, I bumped into their Job Trends tool and I analyzed six hot job categories to see their frequency in the indeed job-posting world: Engineer Customer Service Sales Receptionist part time [...]

Of course, I like to promote the jobs I am hiring for, but in the spirit of Web2.0, mashable content, and trying to exhibitlovecat-like tendencies (and because I think it’s cool that I can do this), I had created a long time ago a search tool to help job-seekers get in touch with any and [...]

From Extreme Tech, via Digg Hourly wages for tech professionals hit a record high during the fourth quarter of 2005, according to a report released Monday. According to the Yoh Index of Technology Wages, hourly pay increased by 3.1 percent to an average of $30.27 per hour between October 10, 2005 and November 6, 2005. [...]