list of persons from meeting who were looking for jobs?

[Wanda Hill]

All,

I took another look at Tamara's request. The purpose for column for email 
addresses is to request to be added to the general listserve. As for the 
information requested, it's the same info requested from before I took over 
Hospitality in 2003. The few y/n questions--member, first visit, looking 
for work--might be more like answering a quick, painless, non-invasive 
survey. I tended to think the attendees could consider the items as 
icebreaker topics they could approach other attendees to talk about--not 
necessarily that the org was going to do anything specific w/that data 
collected.

Tamara, I think if you want to seek prospective candidates from STC meeting 
attendees, I'd suggest you post to the general list. The ones who indicated 
they were looking for work are subscribed to the listserve and would see a 
looking-for-candidate announcement. (Might be dicey if you specify you're 
looking for only February signee job-seekers.)

I guess I'm advocating that the proper way to approach signee job 
seekers--because of the stated reason for the email column--is to seek them 
out AT the meeting, presumably if their nametags have the smiley face (code 
for looking for work). I'm taking a narrow view of spotting and approaching 
job seekers at meetings w/o looking at the sign-in sheets.

Wanda

At 11:58 PM 3/3/2006, AndyRogers at aol.com wrote:
>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
>
>Andy Rogers
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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>