The ads offer Utah Transit Authority employees up to $1,000 if they recruit a friend who becomes a bus driver for at least a year. But some of the flyers are posted in an unusual place: inside the bathroom stall doors at UTA headquarters.
“It’s a captive audience,” jokes Shari Burgess, senior recruiter for UTA. “Pretty creative, huh?”
UTA officials say creativity is now a must as the agency competes with other businesses for the relatively few people seeking jobs amid Utah’s low unemployment rates. Burgess says UTA currently is working to fill about 50 vacant slots for bus drivers.