No Cost Ways to Fill Job Openings

Budget cuts have impacted the amount spent on marketing for most area businesses. Even organizations that are hiring have the financial challenge of creating an advertising campaign that is both effective and affordable. Here at RochesterWorks! we provide no cost solutions to help you assess, recruit and when funds are available train your employees. In the Business Services Team, we consider ourselves an extension of your HR department. If you have worked with us, you have seen how responsive we are to assisting you with your recruitment needs.

Here are some no cost services that we can assist you with when it comes to hiring staff:

We will submit your job opening to Rochester’s Job Bank, posting your position with the Department of Labor’s database. All you need to do is email the Job Title, Description and your organization Tax I D number to HotJobs@rochesterworks.org and we will do the rest.

Once your job posting has been submitted to the Job Ban, we will then post it on our website, within the section entitled “Hot Jobs”. This list is updated every week. Our Career Center is visited by 200-300 job seekers per day. They inform customers of these posting as well as have them displayed within the Resource center.

Your job posting will be assigned a number to be used to identify the job as well as match to potential candidates that have an electronic resume within the Department of Labor database. This pilot program is known as SMART 2010, we are using it at RochesterWorks with a high success rating. The Career Services Advisors are inputting information from the 200-300 job seekers per day into the database and if there is a match an email is generated.

You might want your position to be confidential, in which case you will request it to be suppressed. This means that the job seeker only sees the identification number not organization. They will have to come into the Career Center to request contact information, which will only be given based on the appropriateness of the referral.

Lastly, if you would like to meet a large number of candidates to fill a number of openings, contact us to participate in our signature mini career fair entitled “Recruiting Round Rochester”. It is held every Monday from 10:00 AM-1:00 PM within the Career Center. Only 4 to 5 employers are invited at a time. The Career Center staff promotes the companies and job postings to our customers and we place an announcement on our website under “Hot Jobs”. This combination generates a large number of job seekers to come in to meet with potential employers. If you would like to be considered to be scheduled for this no cost event, contact Laura Seelman at lseelman@rochesterworks.org

RochesterWorks is one of the best kept secrets in town, hopefully you too will become one of our raving fans!