March 06 Employment Report (& suggestions for agenda)

[Wanda Hill]

Items done--

* Still in process of rewrapping archives into newer template and stripping 
out extraneous code (at 2003, 4th q).

* Posting jobs wearing jobpostings hat.

* Discovered that jobpostings inbox had about 20 job posts that never saw 
light of day, in addition to other emails indicating response could be 
improved for timeliness and action. Sent out damage repair emails to the 
senders about possible explanations (below), that I would post by next 
start of day, and I would notify them when the listing would be at 
http://www.stcaustin.org/employment/viewjobs.html--
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** STC Austin job bank has been in the midst of revamping its template and 
certain directory assignments.
** The positions of webmaster, employment director, and jobpostings had all 
changed hands in the same time period and the transitions not gone as 
smoothly as anticipated or wished for.
** The emailing forwardings for jobpostings at stcaustin.org might have failed 
to reach the proper recipient.
** Lack of anticipation on my part that not all job posting requests would 
be taken care of promptly without need for me to participate in the process 
(hands off).

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Suggested agenda items--

Advertisements, spam at aliases. Pasting from email I sent a few days ago--
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Advertisements--policies for the following:
* website for how to submit, linkage (historical precedence since 
transititioning away from hardcopy newsletters?)
* price (per month? quarterly? ongoing?)
* content appropriateness
* size of ad (full screen? banner? in-between?)
* animation?
* where ad to be located?
As for that Allen-Jones situation on the resumes page, I'd be in favor of 
saying we accept only individuals' resumes--no "we" about it. And that the 
purpose of the resumes page is to help tech writers who are unemployed or 
foresee impending unemployment (for lack of a better phrase). Just my 2¢.
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Spam--still getting loads from jobpostings at stcaustin.org & 
jobbank at stcaustin.org. Have removed fwding addresses at 
jobbank at stcaustin.org. No nonspam emails received there since mid-December, 
although I've been logging in and removing spam nearly daily. Estimate 
minimum of about 10 spams a day.


Wanda (FY06 Employment Director)