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Utah Valley is the southern half of Silicon Slopes, the birthplace of a direct-sales industry that staffs itself every summer, and the home of employers most of the country has never heard of. Honest profiles of the companies and the industries behind them.

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Getting a Business License in Provo: The Four Agencies, the Two Home-Occupation Tiers, and the Short-Term Rental Trap

A Provo business license is one of four separate registrations most new businesses need, and the city runs two different home-occupation permits with...

12 min read · Abigail Giordano
Local Business

Food Handler Cards & Health Permits in Utah County: What Every Food Job Requires First

Nearly every food job in Utah starts with a food handler card, and it has to come from an...

12 min · JoAnn Giordano
Jobs & Economy

Getting Your First Provo Job: Applications That Actually Work Here

Provo's hiring market runs on a calendar most newcomers do not know about and a referral...

13 min · Abigail Giordano
Jobs & Economy

Gig Work in Provo: The Honest Math on Delivery, Rideshare and Side Apps

Provo has more people willing to drive for apps than almost any city its size, and that fact...

13 min · JoAnn Giordano
Jobs & Economy

Job Fairs & Hiring Events in Utah Valley: Who Runs Them and When

Utah Valley runs four separate job fair circuits — the annual Provo community fair, BYU's...

13 min · JoAnn Giordano
Local History

Qualtrics: The Provo Basement That Built a $12 Billion Company

A BYU marketing professor, his two sons and a family friend started a survey company in a...

12 min · JoAnn Giordano
Local History

Startup Candy: The Provo Family That Claims America's First Filled Candy Bar

A widow kept a candy business alive after her husband was killed by a cooling slab, her sons...

12 min · JoAnn Giordano
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Government Jobs in Utah County: How Civil-Service Hiring Actually Works Here

Public-sector work in Utah County pays differently, hires differently, and takes longer than...

14 min · JoAnn Giordano
Jobs & Economy

Job Help in Utah Valley That Costs Nothing: The Register

Where to get free job search help in Utah County — the Workforce Services offices and what...

14 min · JoAnn Giordano
Jobs & Economy

Jobs in Provo With No Degree or Experience: The Honest Map

Entry-level work in Provo that does not require a degree — which employers genuinely hire...

14 min · JoAnn Giordano
Jobs & Economy

Part-Time Jobs in Provo: Who Hires, When They Hire, and What the Shifts Are Really Like

Where part-time work in Provo actually exists — the employers who hire year-round, the...

13 min · JoAnn Giordano
Jobs & Economy

Working at Provo Airport: Who Actually Hires There, and What the Expansion Changes

Jobs at Provo Airport are not posted in one place — the city, the airlines, the ground...

13 min · JoAnn Giordano
Jobs & Economy

What Jobs Actually Pay in Provo: A Sector-by-Sector Wage Guide

What work actually pays in Provo and Utah County, sector by sector, using the state's own...

13 min · JoAnn Giordano
Jobs & Economy

Summer Jobs in Utah Valley That Are Not Door-to-Door Sales

Utah Valley's summer job market is far wider than the sales industry that recruits hardest...

14 min · JoAnn Giordano
Jobs & Economy

Tech Jobs in Utah Valley Without Moving to Lehi

The honest map of Utah Valley's tech market — where the jobs actually sit, what the corridor...

14 min · JoAnn Giordano
Jobs & Economy

Teen Jobs in Provo: The Utah Rules, and Who Actually Hires at 14, 15 and 16

What Utah law allows at each age, which Provo employers hire teenagers, and the hour limits...

14 min · JoAnn Giordano
Companies

WordPerfect & Novell: Utah Valley's First Tech Boom

Before Silicon Slopes had a name, Utah Valley ran the world's word processing. The story of...

13 min · JoAnn Giordano
Local Business

Provo's Oldest Businesses Still Open — and Why the Dates Don't Agree

Provo's oldest surviving business has a founding date published at least four different...

11 min · JoAnn Giordano
Jobs & Economy

Jobs in Provo & Utah Valley: Who's Hiring, What It Pays, and What Nobody Tells You

An honest guide to working in Provo and Utah Valley — who the biggest employers actually...

15 min · JoAnn Giordano
Companies

Companies Founded in Utah Valley: The Ones You've Actually Heard Of

Utah Valley has produced a strange number of nationally known companies for a metro its size...

12 min · JoAnn Giordano
Companies

Crumbl: How a Logan Cookie Shop Ended Up Headquartered in Lindon

Crumbl was founded in Logan in 2017 and now runs a national franchise from a headquarters in...

10 min · Abigail Giordano
Jobs & Economy

Direct Sales in Utah Valley: Why the Industry's Capital Is Here

Utah County holds roughly three-quarters of Utah's direct-selling jobs — Nu Skin, doTERRA,...

12 min · JoAnn Giordano
Companies

Silicon Slopes, Explained: What It Is and Why It Started Here

Silicon Slopes is the name for Utah's tech corridor — but the name was coined by a Utah...

11 min · JoAnn Giordano
Jobs & Economy

The Biggest Employers in Utah Valley

Who actually employs Utah Valley — BYU, Alpine School District, Intermountain, UVU, Vivint,...

11 min · JoAnn Giordano
Jobs & Economy

Vivint: Provo's Smart-Home Giant

Vivint is the biggest homegrown company headquartered in Provo — a smart-home firm that grew...

12 min · JoAnn Giordano
Jobs & Economy

LGCY Power: Lehi's Homegrown Solar Company

LGCY Power (pronounced 'Legacy Power') is a Lehi-based residential solar company and one of...

8 min · JoAnn Giordano