RESOURCES

Oxbow Bend, Snake River

Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Many of us on the Cool Works team have experienced seasonal work from both sides, as employees and employers. We’ve gathered these resources to help you find, encourage, and train staff; find a gig that’s right for you; connect with your tribe from Millennials to Older and Bolder, or simply learn more about seasonal work in the United States. Have a topic suggestion? Please contact us!

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How to Work in Retirement and Still Have Fun!

Older and Bolder

Working in retirement can keep you engaged in a community, give you new challenges and adventures to tackle, and—oh, yes—earn you some dough.

How to Get the Most out of Coolworks.com

Older and Bolder

Get the most out of CoolWorks.com and the resources we’ve created for people in their second half of life who are interested in seasonal work.

Seasonal Recruiting in a Labor Pinch: Tips to Improve Your Talent Acquisition Efforts

For Employers

Regardless of your industry, now is the time to evaluate your entire employee experience to maximize the return on long-term investments needed to acquire great new talent.

Take Your Life Journey in New Directions

Older and Bolder

Find a job, and then create the summer of your dreams – pack your watercolors, your camera, your binoculars. Prepare to meet people like yourself and people unlike any others.

Going Beyond the Job Description: Writing Effective Job Ads

For Employers

Is that a Job Description you’re about to post as a Job Ad?
Wait – there’s a big difference!

Applications Questions to Reconsider

For Employers

Let’s revisit and rethink some of the application questions you’re asking applicants. Are you asking for trouble?

The Featured Listing

For Employers

We developed the Featured Listing to give you prime placement and a boost of traffic when you need it most. The Featured Listing is an add-on to a currently running Help Wanted or Highlighted Job ad or Employer Profile that drives traffic and interest to your opportunities.

Challenges and Opportunities in a Competitive Recruiting Environment

For Employers

Here at CoolWorks we do our best to actively keep ourselves informed of current economic trends so that we can advise and inform our customers about issues we believe may affect them, steps we believe may help in your recruiting strategies, and what we’re doing at CoolWorks to optimize the traffic to our site to help keep the applications coming in. What follows are some insights we’ve gathered for 2017.

Tips to Help Increase Applicant Flow

For Employers

Your recruiting materials should describe your staffing needs, requirements, and expectations. Equally important, it should illustrate what the job seeker can expect from the experience. One of the top questions a job seeker has while reading your Profile is: What’s it like to work and live there?