list of persons from meeting who were looking for jobs?

[AndyRogers at aol.com]

Cheri and Karen both make good points. 

Let me suggest this, based in part on years of running the Contractors' SIG: 
Add a column on the right, after the "Looking for Work?" column headed "Are 
you interested in being contacted about possible jobs?" or words to that effect. 

For this whole enterprise to actually be useful, however, we probably need 
also to ask what kind of work they are looking for, direct/contract, 
hardware/software, user/reference/programmer, writing/editing/training, etc. I'm not sure 
what the best way to collect that information is, but unless you know what 
people are looking for, in my experience, you're not likely to be much help to 
them in their search. 

Cheers, 

Andy

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In a message dated 3/3/06 3:57:19 PM, kemulholland at yahoo.com writes:

>then what in the HELL is the point of providing the
>"looking for work" checkbox?
>
>
>
>if i came to a meeting and indicated that i was
>looking for work, i would go home expecting that my
>information would be forwarded to people looking to
>fill jobs - and i would be genuinely pissed off if i
>discovered that my contact info had been *withheld*
>from recruiters after i'd said that i was looking for
>work. 
>
>
>
>we ask people for all kinds of info that we never use
>once we've collected it. either we should start using
>it, or we should stop collecting it. we need to decide
>what we want to do for our members, and redesign
>EVERYTHING to accomplish those specific goals. start
>with the forms, because they're easy. 
>
>
>--- Cheri Mullins <Cheri.Mullins at genband.com> wrote:
>
>> When they sign in, their email address, according to our sheet, is for us 
to
>> add them to the general d-list. It does not give us authority to contact
>> them for jobs or to us their emails in that manner. I think we have to make
>> a separate job-seeker sign-in on which they can state how we can use their
>> information.
>

>>  General Bandwidth Inc.
>> Cheri Mullins
>> Director, Information Development
>> General Bandwidth
>> 12303 Technology Blvd.
>> Austin, Texas 78727
>> 512.681.5540
>> 512.681.5541 fax
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wanda Hill [mailto:whscribe at sbcglobal.net] 
>> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 3:30 PM
>> To: STC Austin Administrative Discussion List
>> Cc: whscribe at sbcglobal.net
>> Subject: [stc-austin-admin] Re: list of persons from
>> meeting who were
>> looking for jobs?
>> 
>> No one's ever asked me that. I think it would not be
>> proper to pass the info
>> beyond the admin list. Did the scanned sign-in sheet
>> make it to the admin
>> list? If so, Tamara, the names of jobseekers are on
>> it. I would suggest that
>> if/when you contact them, you start off with
>> something like the following:
>> "Hello, I am in the STC Austin board and officers
>> group and saw you are
>> looking for work. ...". --Wanda
>> 
>> --- Tom Comey <tcomey at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > What's the policy for this?
>> >    
>> >   tom
>> 
>> > Tamara Dwyer <Tamara.Dwyer at ClearOrbit.com> wrote:
>> >         st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }    
>>            Hi Tom,
>> >    
>> >   Would it be OK to get a list of names and emails
>> who signed in at 
>> > Tuesday's meeting as looking for a job?
>> >    
>> >   Tamara
>> <snip>
>> 
>> ---