Fwd: Meeting minutes 4/16/2009

[Philip Cheney]

 

Compiled by Eric

 

 

Hello,

 

                Below are the notes form our last meeting.  I am sure I left some off the mail list, please forward on to those I missed.

 

Thank you,

 

Eric

 

 

Minutes from the last YCC meeting at Thai Country Café

 

17 people in attendance

 

Upcoming events:

1)      Keith Stein – talked about Earth Day event at the Science Center 4/25.  Volunteers are needed for tow hour shifts.  Greg Wall, gwa...@msn.com, (314) 435-6487 or Sheryl J Loux, sjl...@gmail.com, (636) 237-5149. Science Center entry is free and parking will be validated.

2)      Covidien Tour 4/29 from 3:00 t0 5:30PM at the Webster Groves Site.  Those that wish to attend were told to let Francisco know by 4/22

 

 

Roy requested that Keith make certificates for the Covidien speakers

 

New attendees provided their e-mail addresses which were passed onto Phil.

 

Roy gave a brief talk about the attributes, character and mission of the YCC.  He focus on the development of leaders.  He also mentioned that everyone should make themselves a Linkedin account.  Also, we should look into making a group on Linkedin for the local YCC.

 

Local STL ACS section activities that are coming up – Section picnic on 6/6^th and Chemjobsstl group on Yahoo groups that has local job postings, managed my Lisa Balbes. 

 

Planning for next large YCC Event:

Another career night in the Fall.  Either the first or second week of fall semester. 

 

Possible locations: SLU, Sigma, UMSL

 

Keith Stein is checking on having the night at UMSL or Sigma (contacting Sean Dingman).

 

Nina, Zana, and Amber are checking on availability of having the event at SLU/Sigma.

 

                What needs to be known about event location:

1)      Hall that holds ~100 people

2)      Parking

3)      Food (can we bring in food or do we have to buy their food?)

4)      Place for food

 

Action item.  To hear response on site availability by May 1^st.  (Keith, Nina, Zana, and Amber to contact Roy)

 

Aerotek Representatives – Griffin and Darcy talked about the job market in StL and the different ways to go about looking for a job.  They of course high lighted the use of a recruiter firm, as well as some on networking and using different web sites, like Monster and CareerBuilder (refresh your resume weekly to keep it near the top of the list when employers are performing searches).  Use Indeed.com for looking for jobs, it searches all the big job posting web sites.