Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce Business Journal Q3 2015 | Page 49

MLet Wyoming
help you find

Grown

top talent!

By: Hayley McKee, Department of Workforce Services Public
Information Officer/Policy Administrator

On May 11, 2015, Governor Mead and the Department of
Workforce Services launched a new recruiting initiative called
Wyoming Grown. Wyoming Grown invites people in Wyoming to
refer their loved ones, friends and colleagues who have since left
the State to consider continuing their career in Wyoming. If the
referred individual is interested in exploring Wyoming’s career
options, the program connects individuals with in-demand job
opportunities with the State’s top employers.
The program aims to place individuals in critical areas to help
employers address workforce shortages and skill gaps. Wyoming
Grown will primarily utilize existing resources -- the agency’s
state-wide network of employment specialists -- to work hand-inhand with participants and connect them with job opportunities
with businesses in our State.
Personal recruiters, found throughout the state, are also a direct
point of contact for businesses in the community. As a point
person for community employers, personal recruiters assist
employers in posting jobs easily and conveniently to the State’s
largest job-matching database, Wyoming@Work.
How can I participate in Wyoming Grown?
The program’s website, wyominggrown.org is the conduit to
enrolling participants.

Individuals are able to enroll in Wyoming Grown in two ways:
1. Referral: As mentioned above, the program allows family
and friends living in Wyoming to refer their loved ones who
have since left Wyoming to Wyoming Grown. The referral
generates a letter from Governor Mead to their out-of-state loved
ones, urging them to return home to their Wyoming roots. The
letter will direct the individual to self-enroll on the
www.wyominggrown.org website.
2. Self-enrollment: Qualified individuals interested in a job
can simply visit the www.wyominggrown.org website and click
on the “upload résumé” button. These individuals also receive a
letter from Governor Mead.
Following the submission of a résumé, Wyoming Grown contacts
the individual via telephone to determine the candidate’s
specialty and what community they are interested in relocating to.
Wyoming Grown then connects the candidate with one of
the agency’s personal recruiters in the community of the
candidate’s choosing.
How can Wyoming businesses connect with
Wyoming Grown participants?
Here’s how to get started: post your high demand / high growth
jobs with Wyoming Grown by contacting the agency’s Deputy
Administrator of Business Operations Carmalee Rose, or by
calling your local workforce center. The Department of Workforce
Services will help you quickly and conveniently post your top jobs
on Wyoming’s biggest job matching site, Wyoming@Work.

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