From Deseret News archives:
State recruitment drive working
'Come to Utah' ad sparks about 1,500 visits to Web site
Though still in its infancy, the Utah Recruitment Initiative by the Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED) featured a "come to Utah" ad in a Sunday newspaper insert Oct. 28 in several major cities, and Web-site hits and resume submissions are already going strong.
Clark Caras, the office's director of marketing, told the GOED Board on Friday that the Web site www.utahworksforyou.com had about 1,500 visits during the first day the ad ran, and 65 resumes were submitted during one recent week.
The ad in a 24-page Utah tourism insert features a skier heading down a Utah slope, with a headline hailing "Quality Jobs in Utah as Plentiful as the Powder." That caught the eyes of readers, Caras said.
"What we're finding and what the recruiters are finding is lifestyle is a key to people wanting to come to Utah, so as you can see, (the ad) is lifestyle-based," he told the board.
About 70 companies are participating, although that number is expected to rise to 100 soon. And those initial 70 are looking to hire more than 1,200 workers in the next few months, GOED officials said Friday.
Jason Perry, GOED's executive director, said the program had been geared to recruit engineers but has been expanded to include other sectors identified by the Utah Department of Workforce Services: composites/material science, construction, health care, energy, automotive, ski/hospitality and teaching among them.
The recruitment drive also will feature:
• Fliers at the state's welcome centers, hotels and motels and restaurants, letting incoming motorists know about the state's need for more workers.
• A reprise of last year's "Here for the Holidays" campaign, which used a newspaper ad to encourage Utah natives living outside the state to consider returning to Utah for good engineering jobs. "People that come to the state during the holidays are going to know that there are jobs here for them if they want to stay," Caras said.
• A job fair in April during the Society of Manufacturing Engineers' composites conference, a three-day event with about 800 attendees.
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