How Utah Valley actually makes its money
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
The Biggest Employers in Utah Valley
Who actually employs Utah Valley — BYU, Alpine School District, Intermountain, UVU, Vivint,...
Vivint: Provo's Smart-Home Giant
Vivint is the biggest homegrown company headquartered in Provo — a smart-home firm that grew...
LGCY Power: Lehi's Homegrown Solar Company
LGCY Power (pronounced 'Legacy Power') is a Lehi-based residential solar company and one of...
Who's actually hiring in the valley
The biggest employers in Utah Valley, what they pay for, and where the jobs actually are.