Clearlink adding 150 call center jobs this summer
By Mike Gorrell
The Salt Lake Tribune
Monday May 17, 2010
Clearlink, a west Salt Lake City company that provides online and telephone marketing and sales services for a number of clients, is looking to hire about 150 people this summer, mostly for its call center.
Company spokesman Bret Fitzgerald said the expansion at 5202 W. Douglas Corrigan Way will allow Clearlink to do telephone marketing for AT&T, which it just signed as a client. Call center employees will sell AT&T's phone and Internet services, as well as its new visual U-verse system.
Sales positions will pay $11-13 per hour, plus commissions on each sale. Applications for sales jobs are available at http://clearlink.com, then clicking on careers. Resumes can also be sent by e-mail to resumes@clearlink.com.
For staff jobs in marketing, business development and operations, e-mails should be sent to Fitzgerald at bret.fitzgerald@clearlink.com.
The expansion will nearly double the size of Clearlink, which has 220 employees, including 165 in the call center, Fitzgerald said.
He said AT&T is the latest large partner to team with Clearlink, joining a list that includes Protect America, HughesNet Satellite Internet, Frontier, Qwest and CenturyLink.
"We leverage the brand partner's name, logo and brand reputation and do unique marketing tactics--essentially on- and offline guerilla warfare marketing -- to generate a phone call from a consumer. The consumer calls our center, where we close the sale and send the installer from our brand partner to their home," Fitzgerald said. "Once the installer has completed his job, we essentially sell the customer back to the brand partner. That's where we make money."
Clearlink originated in 1999 as a company called Odyssey Web, which built and designed websites for companies. Six years ago, Odyssey Web merged with iDish, a company that sold home security and satellite dish systems online directly to customers, he said.
Accredited by the Better Business Bureau of Utah, Clearlink also lists itself as a member of the Salt Lake Chamber, Utah State Chamber of Commerce and the Association for Corporate Growth.
