[Imc-supervisors] Re: any candidates?

[Danielle Chynoweth]

Thanks NICOLE-

News Gazette ads aren't worth the paper they are printed on. Fliers
will help. Smilepolitely may donate if asked. This town is asleep
until mid august. Let's extend the deadline and all of us need to do a
big recruitment push. We need to reach out beyond our networks and
insist on diverse applicants before closing the pool. I can help with
this.

Danielle

On Friday, August 14, 2009, Nicole Pion <nicole.pion at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Suzanne, Susan, and IMC-supervisors,
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> How are the applications looking for the pother groups?  I had one candidate apply through the AmeriCorps page. I emailed her asking for a resume and cover letter and am waiting for her reply.  For all the
> positions, I have had at least 8-10 people contact me about applying and they are putting their applications together now.  It may still
> need some time.  As Brian Dolinar pointed out, a lot of folks are away
> now but will be back in town shortly.
> We have till mid/late September to get the AmeriCorps started, so we
> can always renew the postings and extend the deadline.    (Sorry, my information from the state commission keeps changing).
>
> I am concerned, but we can extend the deadline if need be.  I think it takes a little time to get applications in order.  Also, we can hire students or people with other sources of income.  This is different from the VISTA rules.  So, while we don't want a full time student or someone with a part time job, this really opens up the applicant pool.
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> For now:
> I've got the jobs posted on the AmeriCorps site, the IMC site, the NAMAC job
> bank, there is a PSA on RFU and WEFT (I hope they are reading it!) and
> a slide on UPTV.  I've sent it to a Women Action, and Media List serv
> I'm on.  Today, I'm posting it to the Parkland and U of I job banks.
> On the IMC home page, the article  has had 321 reads...I know many of
> them are mine, but not all!  I need to repost to Craigslist - some were deleted and I'm not sure why.  It's also posted to the IMC FaceBook page.
>
> Please send this notice to any and all list serves open to you. If anyone has any ideas for how we can spread the word, please let the list
> know.  If someone could price out an ad in the news gazette, perhaps we can
> make it about all 8 positions and direct ppl to the ucimc website.   It is really expensive to post on Illinoishomepage.net - $149 per job!  We didn't budget for  this, but it is certainly worth considering alternatives.  Anyone with a contact at Smile Politely??  A story there might reach more young people.
>
> Please let me know your thoughts.
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> Nicole
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> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Suzanne Linder <suzanne.linder at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's already on craigslist (http://chambana.craigslist.org/search/npo?query=+).  I wonder if we need to pay to put it in the News-Gazette?  At one point there was a problem putting it on the americorps site and I've been hoping that then that gets resolved we might get some applications but I don't know.
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> Suzanne
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> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Susan Porter Bruce <susanpbruce at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> How about Craigs List? Nicole, what do you think?
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> On Aug 14, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Suzanne wrote:
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> No! I'm starting to get nervous. I think we do need to find other ways.
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> Suzanne
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> On Aug 14, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Susan Porter Bruce <susanpbruce at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hi Suzanne,
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> Has anyone shown interest in the Americorps job? do we need to figure out other ways to advertise?
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> Susan
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> Nicole Pion
> Outreach and Development Adviser
> AmeriCorps CTC VISTA
> Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center
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