Have you ever been sitting on the couch watching your favorite sports team as they push down the field, drive the lane, or rally from behind? You know the scene. You have chips and dip on the coffee table and popcorn in your hands. You turn the TV volume up loud and ignore any phone calls. Then as your team scores the winning points, you throw up your hands and say, We won! But you werent out there on the field or on the court. You were in your living room watching the game on TV. And yet somehow, when they won you won. This type of experience is called identification. You have shirts and hats with the team logo on it. You identify with your favorite team. You see yourself in them.

As the only locally owned and run job advertiser for our clients, we view our relationship with you in the same way. When our clients win, we win. Conversely, when they lose, we lose. After two tumultuous years in the Oregon employment markets (2001 2003), its nice to be back on the winning team!

The number of new people signing up for jobless benefits dropped last week to the lowest level in more than three years, an encouraging sign for a labor market experiencing a bumpy recovery. What a breath of fresh air!

When our clients win, we win. A few of the many ways we believe we help our clients win is our local commitment and market reach. No one knows how hard you work behind the scenes, the same is true with our team. There is no other team that is as committed and works as hard as the Jobdango outdoor marketing team. They are up at all hours of the night making sure that were reaching as many people as possible with your job postings. There have been many 18 hour days! And its worth it, due to the thousands of individuals that have been gainfully employed through our clients.

" In the last six months Jobdango has grown from 150 local clients to well over 425 local clients.
" Jobdango has gone from 20,000 visitors in our first month to well over 125,000 visitors a month.
" Our network, the only one of its kind here in our state is consistently growing, plus we have the best partners and clients in the area! One of the newest is Portland.com.

Jobdango is the only local dedicated jobsite and network that does any outdoor advertising, indoor advertising, TV News advertising and top internet search engine positioning for our local region. There is no other! And we enjoy investing in our community and believe that our investment as well as yours is making a huge difference!

Have a wonderful summer and thanks for allowing Jobdango the honor of serving you!

Ralph King
Its a great day to be alive

The Interview: The Most Important Step in a Successful Staffing Strategy
The Job Interview. It is the culmination of the search process for both candidate and employer alike. And it can make or break your ability to fill a vacant position, depending upon your perception of the candidate during the interview and their perception of you and your organization.

A certain amount of discomfort in meeting and speaking with strangers is part of our social fabric. So goes the technical job interview, which can range from a pleasant conversation where the parties involved "click," to what resembles the worst blind date you've ever had. Most IT candidates and employers experience some combination of both in their search for the right job or the best-suited candidate.

One good way to optimize your organization's hiring process in this competitive climate is to ensure that you have in place, and follow, a solid interviewing process. To hone this process and make it as productive as possible for your organization and the candidates you interview, we've taken our "best of" interviewing information and provided it here as a resource. Use the table to your right to navigate this in depth section.

• Interviewing Tips:
• First Steps
• Conducting
• Assessment
• Follow Up
• It's a Match
• Additional Help

Hello,

Welcome to the only local career site developed for you/by you the local employer!

We hope you enjoy utilizing Jobdango. After all, we built this site just for you, and it's designed to be the most comprehensive local career site on the World Wide Web. We hope you agree, and if you have any suggestions or requests to make this site even better, please be sure to send us your input through our Customer Support Form. We're committed to meeting your needs!

We're also committed to fanatical job advertising from an inescapable outdoor presence, to expanding and maintaining the only career network for the Northwest, to the continual research and development of new ideas, to filling the needs of all employers, at all levels. Jobdango owns and develops the Jobdango software. And that means no other job advertiser can come close to meeting your advertising needs like Jobdango. In short, Jobdango is #1, so you can be #1.

What's more, you don't have to be a top-ranked expert to enjoy the advantages of advertising with Jobdango. We're committed to meeting the needs of all advertisers, whether youre a small local company, or a franchisee, or a national company looking for the best local presence. And it's this kind of commitment that has won the trust of companies such as Oregon Telco Credit Union, Columbia Distributing, Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. and many more.

Once again, thank you for choosing Jobdango.com. We hope you enjoy our site, and look forward to another year of phenomenal service.

Tim Barron
Vice President - Jobdango, Inc.

The technical arena of Jobdango has been busy as usual and we're excited to let you all know the new and upcoming features for Jobdango.com. Weve rolled out new tools and improved on the current tools in order to improve your hiring experience. Below is a listing of recent modifications as well as some exciting new features we have in the works.

NEW AT JOBDANGO

My Toolbar
The My Toolbar has been created to streamline your hiring tools into a central location. The toolbar allows you to set up your own personal links for Payroll, HR Help, Screening, Temp Agencies, Recruiters and My Links. We also offer preferred providers in each of the toolbar sections, allowing you to connect with some of the top companies in the area. Management of the My Toolbar feature is available in the Administration section under the button link: My Toolbar.

Duplicate Job Posting
After hearing your pleas to implement this feature you now have the option of duplicating any job posting as a new job (must have an available job to post). The duplicate posting feature is available on the view job posting page (after the edit job posting page).

Auto Email Responder Attachments
We have updated the Auto Email Responder to allow you to attach a document. You now have the ability to attach a .PDF, .RTF, or .DOC file to your Auto Email Responder. When an applicant applies to a position they will receive your Auto Email Responder email along with the uploaded attachment. Many thanks to Karol over at VTech for the great idea!

Resume Search Agent Boolean and Wildcard Searching
The Resume Search Agent has been updated with Boolean and Wildcard search capabilities. Boolean searching uses the AND, OR, NOT and NEAR keywords to extract more relevant search results. Wildcard searching can be used to pull partial keywords using the * sign. (example: Bookkeep* will return any records with keywords starting with Bookkeep) For further examples on Boolean searching, browse to the Resume Search Agent section of Jobdango.

Improved Resume Inbox Management
The Resume Inbox has been improved to include resume management features. You now have the option to change the status of a resume to any of the following: New, Contacted, Interview 1, Interview 2, Interview 3, Email, Phone, Job Offer, Hired, Unqualified, or Other. Resumes are color coded based on their status for ease of use. Applicant Notes can be added to any resume for later viewing.

New E-Commerce System
A new E-Commerce system has been implemented with several improvements over the previous version. You now have the ability to purchase multiple instances of job postings, applicant questions, and featured jobs. Purchasing options are also streamlined into a single page for ease of use.

Print Invoice
You are now able to print an invoice for any order history entry directly from the Order History page. This feature is thanks to several employers that wanted a way to view receipts from previous orders. In order to use this feature go into the Administration section and from there you can click on the button labeled 'Order History' to find your Order History and print an invoice.

Sale Rep Information on every page
Your Jobdango sales rep information is now available for viewing on every employer page (once logged in). The sales rep information includes a photo of the sales rep, name, phone and email.

COMING SOON AT JOBDANGO

Auto Renew Options
Auto Renew will be available for any posting on Jobdango, renewing the posting automatically after it expires.

Confidential Job Posting Option
You will be able to mark any job posting as confidential. Confidential job postings will hide all company information and the company name will be labeled as Confidential Company.

Hourly Salary Ranges
You will be able to specify yearly or hourly for salary ranges when posting a job.

The Team
I have been so proud of the Jobdango sales team. They have had one heck of a first half of the year. In planning the goals for this year we set a very high standard but they have not only willingly accepted the challenge but are meeting the aggressive goals that we have had for this year. Each member of our all-star team are leaders and they drive each other on to higher and higher levels of achievement.

The Philosophy
We have two philosophies that drive us and are the key to our success. The first is meeting the needs of our clients. We believe that if we succeed beyond expectation to find and meet our clients needs we will each individually succeed beyond expectation. The second philosophy that drives us is that the system sells itself. It is a truly great honor to be able to provide such an innovative and industry-leading product to our local community. Our constant focus is to simply, effectively, and with integrity demonstrate how Jobdango will be able to save time, effort and on top of that money for our local employers.

Testimonies from our clients
There are probably two things in my role at Jobdango that are the greatest reward for the work that I have the privilege of doing. The first is meeting and speaking with job seekers that have either now found work or now have a new, modernized venue for finding local jobs. The second is hearing the testimonies of our clients that have now have a new modernized venue for finding local employees. I thought you would enjoy hearing from just four of our clients whose local job advertising needs we have had the pleasure of meeting:

"We are very happy customers! We are getting a higher number of quality resumes per dollar spent than either the Oregonian or Monster.com. More resumes less money = happy customer"

"After using Jobdango for only 30 days, I am now comfortable I can find a quality candidate in a respectable time frame. It's nice to know that I no longer have to sort through several hundred highly distributed and poor quality resumes from Monster, Hotjobs, and others. You've got me for my future job openings in OR."

"Thank-you for turning us onto Jobdango - It was very successful for us! "

"Wow! I would like to take this opportunity to tell you how overwhelmed I have been with the response to our postings on Jobdango.com. Thank you for your persistence in bringing your site to my attention. In this time of staff reductions it is wonderful to find something that is so user friendly and actually saves time! I look forward to using jobdango for future postings."

Looking forward to a fantastic 2nd half of the year
I am very excited for the second half of 2004! I am expecting great things here in Oregon for all of our fellow local companies as we continue to see our economy turn dramatically around. Here at Jobdango our sales staff is excited to continue to serve more and more of our clients local hiring needs and to meet many new folks as we continue to grow in this blessed and beautiful Northwest!

David Kaylor
Vice President Sales - Jobdango, Inc.