Managing Your Employment Needs

Many of us believe that price is a good reflection of value. In the case of employment (both finding a job and finding a candidate), it's possible to get a lot of good value -- for free.

What does the Employment Manager do?

In the Southwestern Ontario Chapter of the STC, Employment Manager, Ursula McCloy, provides a variety of services for two distinct audiences -- employers and job seekers.

For Employers

Our Employment Manager:

• reviews job postings and has them posted on our site
• maintains a list of potential communicators who are looking for work
• refers employers, who don't want to post to our website, to those communicators who are looking for work

If you, or your organization, has a communicator position to fill, why not have your employer send a job posting to Ursula so that she can review it and have it posted on our website? Last month alone, our website had thousands of hits, and the employment page was one of the top 10 pages that were accessed. Think of the visibility that the job posting will provide for your company.

The benefit of posting on our site is that the majority of applicants who see your ad will have many or all the qualifications that you include in your ad. When there are less applicants to put in your "discard" pile, you reduce your time and effort, providing additional cost savings.

For Job Seekers

Our employment manager:

• reviews résumés
• keeps a list of communicators who are looking for work and will reference them if a potential employer contacts her about hiring a technical communicator
• provides information about the local job market to people who are thinking about moving to the area

What can you do?

Network. Talk to other people and businesses. Tell them about yourself, and tell them about the STC. The more employers who are aware of the STC and our chapter's job bank, the more likely that they will post jobs on our site.

Be a part of your own destiny. Spread the word that you can get something valuable for free.