Go Denver - Employ & Assist

Big Job Hunt Week In Denver Area!

craigr244 — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:48:23 +0000

This week in Denver multiple job hiring and networking events are scheduled starting off on Wednesday with the Denver Career Fair at the Doubletree, the Society of Hispanic Human Resources Professionals networking event with U.S. Bank, and the Broomfield Workforce Center annual Youth Job Fair.

Then on Thursday February 16th, take your choice from several events including a “Start-Up” Job Fair, a City of Denver Career Fair, a Colorado Springs Alorica hiring event, and a Production Workers job fair in Golden sponsored by the Jefferson County Workforce Center. Visit our Denver & Colorado Job News Page for links for all these events – and much more.

Support “Kare for Kenya” Food Event

craigr244 — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:21:51 +0000

Kare for Kenya food packing program for the hungry

The “Kids Around the World” food program is holding their “Kare for Kenya” food packing event in Colorado. Get behind this extremely critical program which will take place in Gunbarrel, Colorado. Thousand’s of children in Kenya have perished and your effforts can change the outlook of the grim picture.

A $63 donation will feed 25 children for 10 days! – A $625 donation will feed an entire village for 25 days! You can join in the packing event or make a secure on-line donation at the “Kare for Kenya” fund raising page. The site includes a volunteer registration page.

Gunbarrel is located just south of Niwot, Colorado and east of the Diagonal.

Denver Area Workfoce Centers: Part 2

craigr244 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:54:56 +0000

Broomfield Workforce Center

Broomfield Colorado Workforce Center

This is our second Post visiting the Denver area Workforce Centers, this time visiting the Broomfield Workforce Center.

Serving: The city of Broomfield
Location: 6650 West 120th Ave Suite Unit A1 – Broomfield
Web Site: www.broomfield.org/hhs/workforce_center/
Phone: 303-464-5855

Primary Job Seeker Resources:
Business Services
Job Seeker Services -including: Computer Resources - Classes & Work Shops - staff assistance and more at no cost to you
Services for Disabled
Veteran Employment Assistance
Training & Education Resources

The Broomfield Workforce Center is also very active promoting youth employment assistance and resources. Read our own write up describing this excellent Workforce Center.

The Broomfield WFC participates in the “Connecting Colorado” employment search program promoting registration and participation via it’s web site and on location.

New Local Job Search Tool!

craigr244 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:41:53 +0000

Student Project “MyJobApps” Assists Local
Denver & Colorado Job Search

MyJobApps from Oakland University in Michigan

This is a new and exciting job search site with some very resourceful features including automatic local search organized by company and industry, classification and a complete collection of on-line applications (PDF) from each represented company.

Here is a statement from one of the students responsible for the new site:

“We’re from the suburbs of Oakland, MI and attended Oakland University (it’s a smaller university). We started this project because we had found in our little college study that more people get called back with paper applications being handed in person rather than applying online. Since many college and high school students apply for jobs in the retail and restaurant industry, we thought it would be cool to have a paper application download for those to fill out at home. On top of that, we also offer a feed for your local area, showing you what jobs are available so that you’re not wasting your time applying for jobs that aren’t hiring. Since we are still in our growing stages, we wanted to get the word out to as many career related sites as possible.”

Spring Denver & Colorado Area Job Fairs Posted

craigr244 — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:38:23 +0000

Go Denver! Employ and Assist web site has posted the up-to-date mid Winter and Spring 2012 job fair and hiring event schedule. The Job News Page includes 20-Plus event listings all along the front Colorado community range. This is the most comprehensive job fair listing available! Visit the Denver Job News Page to view the complete listing.

Local Employer Hiring Spotlight Debuts

Our Denver Job News page also contains a new feature made possible by a college student on-line project “MyJobApps”. We will be featuring on an on-going basis – Denver area job postings through this exciting new on-line job resource.

Denver Front Range Workforce Centers – Part 1

craigr244 — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:59:31 +0000

Spotlight on: Jefferson County Workforce Center

Jefferson County Workforce Center Golden Colorado

If you have not explored the resources available to you for employment search or career enhancement at the local Colorado front range Workforce Centers – you are shorting yourself! The centers offer an amazing array of tools, classes, workshops, data, computer labs and much more – not to even mention their professional employment staffs. We will take a look at some specific offerings from each of the front range centers beginning with the Jefferson County Workforce Center in Golden.

Serving: Gilpin, Clear Creek & Jefferson Counties
Location: 3500 Illinois Street – Laramie Building – Golden
Web Site: http://www.jeffcoworkforce.org/
Phone: 303-271-4700

Primary Job Seeker Resources:
Workshops (View Calendar)
Events & Job Fair Postings
Weekly Job Postings (View Current Listing)
Career & Skill Assessments (Learn more here)
Veteran Employment Assistance
Job Resource Booklet (Download Here)

In addition the center features a large and modern computer laboratory equipped with many machines as well as office equipment and supplies. Brochures are available for patrons along with a large collection of job-search instructional/informational hard copy articles. Read our on-line in-depth review of the Jefferson County Workforce Center.

Professional staff is on hand to counsel and guide employment seekers through the entire job-search process.

The Jeffco WFC participates in the “Connecting Colorado” employment search program promoting registration and participation via it’s web site and on location.

Denver Job News Web Page Refreshed!

craigr244 — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:01:46 +0000

We are now once again listing all Denver job and hiring event news on our Go Denver! Employ & Assist! Job News Page

Job Events Slow Right Now – But Watch January!

craigr244 — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:14:21 +0000

Of course this is the slowest time of the year for Job Fairs and Hiring Events around Denver and the Colorado Front Range – but the action will pick up soon entering into 2012! Watch our Hiring Event Page at this site and then by mid January 2012 our Go Denver! Employ and Assist web site job news page will be back in full swing!

During January – Follow Denver & Colorado Job Postings Here!

craigr244 — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:28:21 +0000

During the last week of December 2011 – and for most of the month of January 2012 – we will be posting all of our Go Denver! Employ & Assist Job postings – events – job fairs and more on our Blog site – Visit our Job Fairs & Local Hiring Events Page!

The Key to Keywords: Optimize Product & Service Pages First!

craigr244 — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:00:29 +0000

Wonderful World of Keywords

Realistic Keywords for Local SEO Success

If you are a small business owner residing in the Denver or Colorado marketplace, have an active website, or are planning a new web site, you probably have been bombarded with information about identifying and implementing keywords into your pages.

Keyword Overload

Two things I run into constantly with people when they are addressing the subject of keyword selection/implementation, is trying to do too much – win too many battles – attempt to claim search supremacy for any and every potential keyword.

Consider a realistic approach when establishing your keywords. Say you have a basic five or six page site. Chances are your site features a product page or a service page – or both. A typical small business web structure would include either or both of these plus a home page, perhaps an “about us” page and a contact page. Of these five pages, first consider designating your product page and service page as your two “optimized” pages.

What About My Home Page?

Many site owners feel that their home page should be their showcase and top landing page, and that very well could be the case for certain types of businesses. Perhaps you are a local consultant or specialist offering your expertise. You could easily construct a sound, well-optimized home page that attracts and retains visitors.

But if you offer products and services or either as a standalone offering, zero in on these two pages for optimization purposes. Perform this task well, even to the point of - while not entirely ignoring – the Home page. Place your focus and efforts on the product/service pages and the Home page will come along for the ride. Your business offering is what pays the bills. What you are putting up for sale – if a viable product or service – is where the searching public wants to land. An attractive website and an impressive Home page will serve their purpose when the time is right. But first you must win the local search game.

Let’s assume you have two targeted landing pages in mind: a product page – and a service page. Your first objective will be to brainstorm, test, and select two – and possibly three – keyword phrases for each page. I personally feel that two very well-chosen keyword phrases per targeted landing page is a realistic and effective local search optimization strategy. With two phrases per page firmly in place as your focus, you can always implement additional “long tail” KW phrases for your pages.