20 Dec 2008
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| Dan Hodges from Vue Wireless stands in the frame of the new office being renovated at 1309 South Benton in Searcy for the expansion of the business. Hodges is looking for qualified employees to insert data in the company's new system. |
Gas exploration creates 40 new jobs at TitleVue software company
By Warren Watkins
The Daily Citizen
Searcy’s unemployed workers will be glad to know a small drop has landed in the job market bucket as TitleVue, Inc., a software development company, has announced it is hiring 40 new data entry workers.
That bucket has had hundreds of holes punched in its bottom recently, with 600 Whirlpool workers becoming unemployed four days before Christmas with the closure of that company’s dryer factory and with more than 230 Kohler workers on strike and looking for part-time jobs.
“We have an agreement with one of the major oil and gas companies that contracted us to serve several counties,” President Dan Hodges said.
Associated with Vue, Inc., a wireless provider, TitleVue scans courthouse and government records and stores them on its database.
“We hire people to do the indexing,” Hodges said. “Clients that use our system could be anywhere. A lot of our services are used by the oil and gas industry, but also by financial institutions and law offices, whoever needs access to county records.”
To house the new employees, TitleVue will move to 1308 Benton Street, where framing for the remodeling has already begun. Offices for Vue, Inc. will remain in downtown Searcy.
Successful applicants will have good typing and computer skills, and at least a week of training will be provided for the precise type of work. A day shift will be hired, and possibly a second shift. Some workers will be able to work from home if they have a high-speed Internet connection.
“We have people from Missouri, Cabot, Jonesboro, Lonoke and of course around the Searcy area that log onto our system to work,” Hodges said.
Home workers’ computers must have Windows 2000 to Windows XP operating systems and be recent models with fairly large monitors, Hodges said.
“We buy computers in bulk, so we can help them find a computer if they don’t have one,” Hodges said.
Work will be evaluated by production.
“We have requirements they have to do a certain number of documents an hour,” Hodges said. “We’ll pay $7-12 an hour, depending on what level of indexer they are.”
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