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I am excited I get to blog about this!

I’ve been given approval to announce that we are rolling out an awesome new incentive plan to reward people for referring excellent people to us. This is further proof the marketplace for talent is getting hotter, and we’ve decided to allow anybody to pitch in and help us continue to connect talent with opportunity! While you’re looking for work, you might as well help others find great positions and get paid on the side!

Here’s the details:

1. Find and refer someone to us for a specific job-posting we have. (How to find out jobs, get alerts and more) You must personally know the individual… they have to agree to being referred by you.

2. They get hired or placed on that job and work there for 30 calendar days.

3. We’ll pay you $250.00 cash! Sweet Deal!

This is available to anybody, already employed with us on another position or not. Just be sure you personally recommend the person and be sure they know you are referring them to us!

Good luck!

Seth Godin writes an interesting note about our emerging economies, relating it to an old one which was very modern at the time:

“We’re in the middle of the biggest shift(s) of the last century—whole industries are disappearing, worldviews are changing and the rules are being rewritten.”

What are you doing to be ready?

Here’s a photo of our Orem, Utah Technical Office. We are on the West side of the same building our Orem SOS Staffing office is in, south of Sizzler, and West of University mall in Orem. Drop in and say hello!

SOS Technical – Orem
1256 South State St. Ste. 101
Orem, UT 84097
Phone: 801.426.6120
Fax: 801.426.6121
Email: dept056@sostechnical.com
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Yes, that is my bike in the shot. It’s been some sweet riding lately!

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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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.

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.

“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]

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?"