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We’re excited to announce that we’re testing a concept of podcasting—saving digital audio recordings here to our weblog so you can download and listen to them or simply stream them from our website.

We will be announcing new jobs, interviewing consultants we work with, and also talking with business leaders, executives and hiring managers as well.

As the Utah Economy heats up this summer, keep track through our new JobsCast! Subscribe to any of our feeds to be alerted when new items are available. If you’re new to "podcasting", you can always simply listen to our items right online. For more details, we recommend the podcast entry at Wikipedia. We also recommend Newsgator’s new, free tool, Feedstation that can help download and manage your feeds.

Happy Listening!


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3 week contract position, direct hire position for the right candidate working in a process design firm that specializes in piping and process flow for the food and beverage industry.

Job Duties: Convert hand-drawn process-flow diagrams into line-drawings using AutoCAD 2000i.

Compensation: $11.00 to $16.00 per hour, commensurate with experience.

Qualified Contractor must have a few years of AutoCAD experience, plus an understanding of piping and process-engineering.

How to Apply:

• At our website: www.sostechnical.com
• By Email
• Online at Career Builder

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Our client has an immediate opening for a qualified Program Manager who plans, organizes, and manages an assigned product line from conceptual stages through product life cycles to optimize profit while meeting marketing, financial, and corporate growth objectives. This is a direct-hire position. Full benefits are available and relocation would be considered for the right candidate.

Job Duties: Leads product teams and collaborates with sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, and operations to develop and provide product definitions. Developing marketing and financial plans to obtain the objectives of the firm. Performs competitive analysis with key competitors and identifies partnering opportunities. Establishes dealer networks and creates and manages alliances with manufacturers. Maintains communications and contacts to collect and analyze technical, financial, schedule, and sales information for product line. Provides customer point of contact at all times within the organization, and work when required with sales and staff teams in preparing and giving presentations. Assures responsibility for quality, on time delivery and cost objectives. Actively participates in the attainment of these goals, providing direction to team-members where required to ensure success of programs within the confines and constraints of the overall organization.

Not local? No problem. Some or all of your relocation fees may be reimbursed for the right candidate.

Compensation: $60,000 to $70,000 per year, commensurate with experience. Full benefits are available and relocation would be considered for the right candidate.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: APICS Certified, Good use of MRP (Materials Resource Planning), and know Vantage Manufacturing software and the following Vantage Modules: Sales, Quote and Order Management. Four to ten years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents. Able to quote work packages based on blue prints. Ability to understand and interpret contractual requirements, ensure compliance to and flow down of data requirements. Good negotiation skills are required. Ability to apply mathematical concepts in the resolution of cost, quality and test evaluations as well as understand and determine the applicability of variance analysis, correlation techniques and sampling theory as it applies to the program. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables. Spreadsheets, E-mail, Inventory Management, Manufacturing software, Database software, Contact Management. Display a strong commitment to business ethics. Adhere to all company policies and procedures to ensure efficient operation of the program/project.


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Our client is hiring a good Buyer/Planner to join their team full-time. As the Planner/Buyer you will coordinate the procurement and distribution of materials, parts, equipment, and supplies for the organization. You will report to the Materials Manager, and work on a cross-functional team.

Job Duties: Coordinate all activities related to procurement of a commodity beginning with intent to purchase through delivery. Analyze the requirements of the commodity, including preliminary specifications, preferred supplier, and date commodity is needed. Solicit and evaluate proposals for the requested commodity. Investigate and/or interview potential suppliers to determine if they meet the specified requirements. Advise team members or management on the appropriate supplier to be used. Negotiate the lowest possible cost for the commodity balanced against the optimum quality and schedule needs. Implement purchase contracts that comply with company and government regulations. Assure that the commodity is delivered on schedule, at the negotiated price, and meets the quality standards of the company. Maintain timely control of orders, amendments, shipping notices, and other documents to assure accurate retention of records.
Coordinate appropriate methods needed to distribute commodity in a cost effective manner.

Not local? No problem. Some or all of your relocation fees may be reimbursed for the right candidate.

Compensation: $40,000 to $50,000 per year, commensurate with experience. Full benefits are available and relocation would be considered for the right candidate.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: APICS Certified, Good use of MRP (Materials Resource Planning), and know Vantage Manufacturing software. Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public. Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry. Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. Word processing, Spreadsheets, E-mail, Order processing, Inventory, Manufacturing software, Database software.


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An immediate position is now open for three Java Engineers at either junior or senior engineering levels. To land this great opportunity with a growing company, show that you are a problem-solver, that you can really think critically, and that you?ll be an energetic and enthusiastic member of our team. Show us what you?ve got!

We are an exciting company that converts information into knowledge for technical service professionals and delivers that knowledge on a mobile platform. The successful candidate will be a member of the data conversion team designing and developing Java applications that convert structured and free-text data from a variety of formats for use in various products.

Compensation: $50,000 to $100,000 per year, commensurate with experience. Benefit package includes paid personal leave, paid holidays, and group insurance (medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug).

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Intelligent problem solver with strong analytic skills. Strong attention to detail, ability to think clearly, creatively, and independently. Must be proactive, willing to tackle new and challenging problems, able to work independently, learn very quickly and be self-motivated. Bachelor?s degree in Computer Science or equivalent. Superior knowledge of good programming practices and object-oriented design. Experience developing products using Java, HTML/XML/SGML, and SQL. Experience with information retrieval, machine learning, and/or natural language processing algorithms preferred. Demonstrated record of team work and responsibility. Excellent command of the English language and interpersonal skills for both written and verbal communication.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Familiarity with agile development methodologies preferred.


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Come and work in one of the most advanced machine shops in the USA! Our client is immediately seeking 4-5 skilled CNC machinists from across America to work in their state-of-the-art Spanish Fork, Utah facility. This is a direct-hire position with full benefits, training, and overtime. Relocation is available for the right candidate(s).

Compensation: $15.00 to $22.00 per hour, commensurate with experience as well as full benefits, training, and overtime. Relocation is available for the right candidates.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: 3+ years of experience, 4-axis setup, machining and programming

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: 5-axis experience is preferred, but not required.

SOS Technical is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Base Pay: $15.00 – $22.00/Hour
Employee Type: Full-Time Employee
Industry: Manufacturing, Industrial
Job Type: Manufacturing, Design, Skilled Labor – Trades
Req’d Education: High School
Req’d Experience: At Least 3 Years
Req’d Travel: None
Relocation Covered: Yes, for the right candidate

How to Apply:

• Online at www.sostechnical.com
• By Email. Attach your resume and include this job title in the subject line
• Use your resume from Career Builder

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A good, entry-level CNC Machinist is needed to work with our client in Spanish Fork, Utah. This is a direct-hire position with benefits. You will run both axis 4 and 5 mills, and you will work in one of the most advanced machine shops in the USA, and you will be taught what you need to advance in responsibility and pay rapidly.

Not local? No problem. Some or all of your relocation fees may be reimbursed for the right candidate.

Compensation: $13.00 to $16.00 per hour, commensurate with experience.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: 1-2 years’ experience is required and a strong desire to learn more skills and work with a good company.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Setup or Programming helpful, but not required.
Location: US-UT-Salt Lake City
Base Pay: $13.00 – $16.00/Hour
Employee Type: Full-Time Employee
Industry: Manufacturing, Industrial
Job Type: Manufacturing, Skilled Labor – Trades, Design
Req’d Education: High School

How To Apply:

• Online at www.sostechnical.com under JobSeekers


• By email. Attach your resume and mention this job in the subject line)


• Use yoru resume on Career Builder

In the online job-hunting space, nobody rivals the Monster Board. Period. But there is speculation that other services like Career Builder, HotJobs and even eBay are wanting to purchase the company. In light of that, Monster CEO Andrew McKelvey says they’re not selling.

“We intend to keep our independence,” McKelvey said recently to Barron’s…

“McKelvey said he sees considerable growth potential because Web sites account for just 20 percent of the $6 billion U.S. help-wanted advertising market.”

I found a good site for designers and people trying to find designers: http://www.coroflot.com/

As I meet with clients, I am always keeping my ear to the ground for new opportunities and trends. I have a particular advantage in that I speak with several people each week who are otherwise isolated from eachother. When I begin hearing almost the exact same things from three or four of my clients at the same time, I pay very close attention.

There’s something happening here, and I believe it is very, very good.

With that, I am going on a limb to describe what I am seeing and predict some coming events:

• Businesses are very active right now in Utah County.
  From Lehi to American Fork, Orem, Provo and even down to Spanish Fork and Payson, it seems that everybody is growing. Everyone I talk with is getting ready for some big stuff they’re working on.
• BUT, it’s all in development right now, so there is a very select market of people that is being hired right now.
  You know this if you are a designer. There is already a hiring crunch for good designers and drafters in this area.
  


• BUT, that means it will all be into production soon.
  If you are an engineer, programmer, machinist, technician, installer or any other kind of developer, in the next 90-180 days, you will be very, very busy!


• Then, everything must be managed.
  At this point, all of this new business must be packaged, marketed, sold, serviced, warehoused, repaired, upgraded, accounted for, and otherwise managed. In fact, I can’t think of any other job-type that won’t be affected when the trees of commerce in the area really begin to be heavy with the fruit of their own labor! It may not be for 6-12 months for this final phase of growth to begin, but it will be worth it.

My greatest single piece of advice to a job-seeker right now is: “Are you ready?” Are you meeting the people you need to meet with? Are you honing your skills? Are you keeping/getting in shape? Are you networking? Are you volounteering? Don’t ever, ever wait for someone else to tell you it is okay to make a difference in the lives of people around you!

These things will prepare you, and you need to be ready because, with all of this growth, there will still be some who do not find their dream job. At the same time, I don’t believe this is a game of “survival of the fittest”, but I do think it is “survial of the prepared“.

Change is coming, and the economy grows stronger daily. But, employers (and employees) are not taking things lightly this time. Companies are still smarting from the economic misery of the last few years. Worse yet, many of them still have the bitter aftertaste of their relatively foolish mistakes and dizzy-decision making from the late 90s. As embarassing and financially problematic those decisions were, you can bet companies are keeping their cards very close to the vest right now, and unwilling to take very many leaps of faith.

For the job-seeker, this means longer interview cycles, being turned down for a position for the smallest-of-reasons, or not ever getting a response to your application—ever!

“Opportunity”, it has been said, “is the distance between where you are, and where you want to be.” My opinion is that you should run to where you want to be, don’t stoop down and try and measure the distance.

Are you ready?

I like having some music at-the-ready when my day needs some spice. But I get distracted by the commercials and the deejay. When my MP3 collection begins to feel tired, I go for either MusicMatch Jukebox (download and play new music/manage your mobile device) or Real Rhapsody (Commercial-free music, 1 Million songs to choose from!)

For fun, see an old writeup I did of Music Match: That’s the way, uh-huh, uh-huh, I like it…

There’s a lot of things you can do to make life easier when you’re at work, or job-hunting. As we’ve scoured the web looking for Great People, we’ve come up with a few “gotta-haves” that are simply tools or things we think everyone should know about.

So, I’ve just added a new category: Cool Tools & Apps

Check out our bookmarks, and be sure to tell us about your favorites as well!

The Monster Blog recently posted an article titled: Working Harder Is Not Always Smarter which discusses different work-ethics in the workplace. They even give a list of ways to identify your own workaholic addiction.

When I read item two, “Listen to how people describe your strengths”, I disagreed at first until I read the whole paragraph.

It is true that great leaders have rarely been known simply as “hard workers”. At the same time, exceptional leaders are the ones right their with the people they’re leading—and working very hard for the success of the whole group.

I like to call this “muddy-boots leadership”. And, it is the kind that rallys people, companies, communities and even nations to greatness in the face of trials.

Yes, vision, boldness and communications are absolutely crucial for top-level business success, as long as your whole team is familiar with seeing your sleeves rolled up just as much as theirs.

Wednesday night, I helped to panel some mock interviews for students at a local career college. The experience was both fun and interesting for me. The only thing I wish I could have done is spoken to their entire group afterward and provided a more general feedback session.

Writing about it here feels like the next-best thing.

My first overall comment to anybody in school—even night school or a community college—and looking for their next opportunity is “congratulations”. You really have made a large step forward already. Many people stand and look at the mediocrity around them and believe that “this is my life” and don’t take the extended effort and time it takes to change it.

The next thing is to never give up on your dreams. I know this may sound like line from a self-help book, but if you have no idea where you want to go with your life, and you just go “where the wind takes you”, that usually ends up pretty dull and pretty miserable. Just look around you—unfulfilled and unsatisfied people are everywhere. They may be hard-working; many are very well-paid. But without direction, they will never, ever be satisfied!

With that, I recommend, even when you find a job, that you stay thirsty for your goals. You must keep looking and searching for the “right” opportunity for you.

Personally, I was challenged once with the question:

“Have you found the opportunity that will take care of you and your family for the rest of your life?”

That changed my life because I had no response. None. I had a great resume, spectacular references, and I could interview with the best of them, but I could not, seriously answer this question.

Several years later, I believe I have found it, and I am able to call upon more passion, focus, energy and direction in accomplishing this work than I have been able to muster at the highest-paying-but-unfulfilling jobs. Never, ever, ever, ever give up!

My last suggestion? Remember that every job-opening represents a problem of some kind that the employer wants to solve. If you will focus every response, every comment, your resume, your dress, your demeanor, even your smile around the idea that you are a problem solver—you don’t complain about it, you don’t get stuck on it, you just work hard, ask smart questions when you need to, and push through the problems that come up until you can solve them right—the first time!

Good luck! If you never give up on your goals, and become the kind of person known as a problem-solver, you’ll have no shortage of opportunity, and you’ll have a life that can bring you joy and incredible pleasure!

Go for it!

Today, I visited several customer locations here in Utah county. Each of them are well-known, two of them are international. Each of them told me that their efforts to find quality people are tightening up.

“We’re not back to the dot-com craziness yet, but its defintely getting there again.” I was told.

Good news? I think so. I think this news is very, very healthy for all of us. It means growth, innovation and more security ahead for both employers and employees.

Link: You Already Know This Stuff: The Tipping Point.

I’m very curious about that point at which people realize they have the personal POWER (Purpose, Open-Mindedness, Wisdom, Energy, Responsibility – that POWER) to do something about their own lives.

Seth Godin writes an interesting post about marketing yourself:

“Think of the people you know—in every endeavor, in every line of work. What business discipline would they most benefit from? Would it be the ability to do a spreadsheet or manage inventory? Perhaps they’d do better in their careers or with their passions if they were better at conforming to human resource regulations… I don’t think so. It all comes down to spreading ideas. If you can get your art or your political cause or your restaurant’s ideas to spread, you win.”

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There are many ways you can keep up with our job-postings.  Lately, we’ve had no less than 10 or more a week. New companies are signing on with us constantly, so we want to provide you with as many ways to keep in touch with us as you can.

Though our jobs are the same, here are several ways to track us down and sniff out a great opportunity for yourself. Choose the method(s) you like the most and you’ll be thanking us about your great new job before you know it!

• Our website: www.sostechnical.com
  Hey, this is our home.  We put every job we have on here.
  
• Subscribe to our JOBFEED . 
  Click a link below to add our feed (You need a newsreader or one of these services for this)
  
  
• Get our jobs by email
  (delivered by indeed.com)
• The Job Boards (of course):
  Hey, you’re going to find us everywhere, but some of the best places to look are the following (especially if you already have an account there):
  
  
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    Indeed.com is just cool. They take all our jobs from all the job boards and combine them into one.  See?  Oh, you want it even better?  Get our jobs by email or by RSS newsfeed, too. Hey, I am all for easy… and indeed it is! (pun intended)
    P.S. They are getting quite The buzz on the web…
    
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    Career builder is still my personal favorite for job-seekers because it is so simple to apply for positions.  You can easilly find our company’s positions.
    
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    Hot Jobs has done some really nice things lately. If you have a Yahoo account, it’s very simple to add jobs to your MyYahoo page (see our feed, above, to do this, too)
    
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    Monster has also been enhancing things. No doubt their resume-agents and tools are some of the very best.
    
  • Craig’s List
    If simple is your gig, then Craig’s list is your Ritz Carlton. Bookmark our jobs, or get them sent to you by RSS newsfeed. Your call. Easy.

If anything else, we’re always at the other end of your telephone or email account.  Please contact us at any of our offices, at any time.

“I had a most painful conversation with a candidate yesterday upon making a job offer on behalf of a client. While I admired his fortitude and effort, I had to cut him off finally..I just couldn’t listen anymore…

This doesn’t happen often…I advise you make your best offer first…

that’s it…it doesn’t need to get complicated. Yes, from time to time we all have to negotiate a few things..but if you do your work throughout the process – set and measure expectations..the offer is well rather anti-climatic. It’s anticipated and becomes more of an itinerary (or should)...like when do we move, first day of work..logistics..itinerary/schedule for first day and/or week.

If you find you are negotiating offers more than you’d like, review and revise!”

[Via Lucia Apollo-Shaw]

It’s always interesting to find out what is happening inside company walls. Here’s an interesting look though inside a local entrepreneur’s mind on what he feels myFamily.com might have been:

Now, after years of neglect, I hear there is some renewed interest in growing MyFamily.com. But during the heads down years, look what has happened in areas where MyFamily.com could have played a role… (more)

First the good news, then the bad news about women in leadership positions, from a joint study by Caliper and Aurora. Link: BostonWorks – The Job Blog.

Link: Job hunting? New service may link you.

a new approach to the tiresome task of job hunting, LinkedIn.com, will soon up its job listings into the millions. The San Francisco-based company offers a Web approach to networking and brings millions of people, including more than 8,500 locals who are LinkedIn members, a chance to mine contacts or trusted people for information like job openings. That tally of users is up by 75 percent since January, when the local total was 4,800. LinkedIn differs dramatically from cyber-job giants such as Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com, which is partially owned by Enquirer parent company Gannett Co. Inc., because it is a referral-powered job board. LinkedIn members can see their connections to executives and others because it shows the contacts of other contacts – that is, a member knows another member, who also knows another member. Those contacts show up as degrees of separation, which are mined by the new job search section. The result is that jobs offered by contacts or people in users’ LinkedIn contacts list show up at the top of any search list created by job hunters. "Those are the jobs you are mostly likely to get, even if your resume does not perfectly match the job description, because of the personal connection," said Konstantin Guericke, vice president of marketing and co-founder of LinkedIn, which has 2.7 million users

Link: The Occupational Adventure (sm): Learn how to bounce back.

Face it. There will inevitably be times in your journey when things feel like they’ve imploded. You’ve fallen on your face. Things have gone completely wrong. What do you do? Here’s an article that suggests that the ability to bounce back can be learned. A nutshell version of the tips:

Some of you know that I am a big-fan of LinkedIn (do you know me? Request to be linked to me!).

It helps with many things, the least of which being a way to keep in touch with people. In fact, this week I reconnected with several colleagues who worked at the Incredible Genuity Experiment back in Boston during Heyday-dot-com. (Good to know you’re all doing excellent—wild ride, wasn’t it??)

Now, as highlighted recently in the Boston Job Blog, Social Networking is helping reduce barriers between the employer and the employable:

The web, as we all know, has had a huge impact on job searching. But now it’s going beyond job boards. A new class of sites is attempting to change the professional networking process by putting it online:

Dave Taylor answers a great question: "Why would I bother with networking sites like LinkedIn?"

Link: Blue Sky Resumes Blog: Student Resumes.

As many students approach graduation and other start to look for internships, many are faced with the issue of writing their own resume – sometimes for the first time. No one likes to write a resume, but I think students worry more about this than more experienced job seekers. If that’s you, don’t worry – it doesn’t have to be intimidating if you understand the goal of your r鳵m頭 to generate interest and interviews. It doesn’t have to get you a job and it doesn’t need to cover your life history. It simply has to pique the interest of the reader and answer the only question he cares about: will this candidate add value to my company?