Maricopa Workforce Connections

Maricopa County sponsors a website called Maricopa Workforce Connections. It contains various job search resources offered by the County.

Search for Openings at the State of Arizona

There are many openings posted by the State of Arizona for various job fields. You can browse and search them here.

Jobs at GoDaddy.com

GoDaddy.com, a local web hosting company, has several openings (over 50) available in the software engineering/IT fields as well as customer reps, technical writing, QA, Human Resources, Accounting, Marketing and others. If you can get past the corporate image, which seems a bit obnoxious and offensive at times, based on their commercials, then there may be some opportunities there.

Glassdoor.com Adds New Feature

 I have previoulsy posted comments about information asymmetry in negotiations - that having enough of the right information is crucial to successful negotiation. Glassdoor.com is an intriguing website that can help equalize the playing field and help you get an edge when it comes down to negotiating the salary for a new position. It's full of anonymous user shared salary ranges and employee  reviews of managing executives of a growing list of notable corporations. 

Recently, Glassdoor.com added a new feature where users who have interviewed at these companies share their interview experiences and questions they were asked. This information can be extremely helpful, so give Glassdoor.com a look if yo haven't done so already. Glassdoor is a fairly new site, so not every company you're interested in will have information about it posted, in fact it's not really helpful for finding out specific internal info on a smaller business, but it will help you research industry standard salary ranges and give you an idea what you should expect to be paid for your experience and skillset.

Dice.com - Career Resources for Tech and Engineering Professionals

The following is from the Dice.com "About Us" information page. You can access Dice.com here.

Dice.com, a Dice Holdings company, is the leading career website for technology and engineering professionals, and the companies that seek to employ them, in the United States. Our mission is to help our customers source and hire the most qualified technology and engineering professionals and to provide those professionals with the best job opportunities in their respective fields. With an 18-year track record in meeting the ever-changing needs of companies and recruiters, our specialty focus and exposure to highly-skilled technology and engineering professionals enable employers to reach hard-to-find, experienced candidates. 

Dice.com is designed for the specific needs of technology professionals, enabling them to perform highly targeted job searches based on specific criteria, including location, type of employment, skillset and keyword. Dice.com also provides job search tools such as search agents, resume posting and career-related content. The job postings available in the Dice.com database, from both technology and non technology companies across many industries, include a wide variety of technology positions for software engineers, systems administrators, database specialists and project managers, and a variety of other technology and engineering professionals. 

Dice.com provides specific tools and resources to help recruiters and human resources managers improve the effectiveness of their recruitment processes. Our resume database search capabilities allow customers to quickly and efficiently find candidates with specialized skill sets that match desired criteria. Due to our exclusive focus on the technology industry, our customers can find results faster and easier than on other, less targeted services.

Please visit Dice Holdings, Inc. corporate website at www.diceholdingsinc.com.

Job Fair Update

This is just a reminder that there has been an update to the Job Fair listings on the Blog. See them on the Red Mountain Ward Employment Blog's main page here.

-Boyd

Spherion Hiring Recruitment Agents (Temp)

Spherion is currently hiring for Recruitment Agents for a national non-profit organization.

 

Hours: Mon-Fri; 9:30am-3:30pm w/ an hour lunch

Pay: $12/hour

Dress code: business casual

Type: temporary (through end of October)

Location: 51st Street & Elliot Rd

Start date: Interview & Train on Monday, 5/11/09, must pass interview & training to continue; training is paid; MUST meet quotas to remain on assignment

 

Duties: make outbound phone calls to business owners & corporate executives to invite/ask for their participation in the unique, exciting fundraiser for MDA & ask for referrals.  Recruitment Agents find this job rewarding because they get a paycheck at the same time as they are helping others in a significant way.  Recruitment Agents are pleasant, expressive people who enjoy talking to others and encouraging them to rally round a great community cause.  They are NOT Telemarketers!  They are NOT selling a product or service.  They are giving people an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of local families with neuromuscular disease.

 

Goals are: 30 calls/hour, 150 calls/day, 6 acceptances/day.  MUST meet quotas to remain on assignment.  MUST be goal oriented.

 

Requirements:  HS diploma or GED, good phone etiquette, positive, personable, outgoing, ability to "think on feet", "cheerleader" for MDA organization, comfortable receiving rejection/not get easily discouraged, ability to self-motivate, have reliable transportation, ability to pass a 10-year background check, need to be able to commit to assignment for at least 6 weeks.

 

Please apply online at www.spherioncareers.com.  Order code: 1001244819.

 

Any questions, please contact Christi or Denise.

 

Thank you,

 

Christi Garner

Direct Hire Recruiter

Spherion Staffing Services

Recruiting and Staffing Excellence

4041 S. McClintock Dr, #301

Tempe, AZ  85282

TEL 480-831-0064 

FAX 480-752-3945

christigarner@spherion.com

www.spherion.com

Jist Job Search Videos on Youtube

Jist Publishing, the creators of the Jist Job Search and Career Blog, have a YouTube channel with several helpful jobsearch and career development tips. These YouTube segments are samples of job search and self help videos they sell on DVD. Check them out here. 

LinkedIn Tips

Everyone I talk to about job-seeking strategies hears about LinkedIn, a popular professional networking tool available on the internet. It is by far the best online tool I have seen for managing you professional contacts and utilizing them for expanding you most important resource for finding employment opportunities. Today I ran across a website which focuses on how LinkedIn users are using the LinkedIn networking tool. It is called Linked Intelligence. Of note is the page on 100+  ways to use LinkedIn. Also of note is the "Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn" by Guy Kawasaki. These are good places to get ideas on how to use LinkedIn in ways you may not have explored. 

Also, remember that any kind of online networking site is only a tool that assists with networking, and shouldn't be confused with networking itself. Networking is the art of building and maintaining alliances, or relationships. Online tools can be effective contact management and search tools. But they are limited tools for building relationships, which is best done face to face. You want people in your network to know you and what you can do. So, use LinkedIn and the other online tools to help you:

• Find new people to meet, so they can get to know you 
• Stay in contact with people you already know and help them to get to know you better 
  

Good luck and call or email me with any questions.