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**Type of report being submitted: Committee Planning Report
**Date: September 9, 2002
**Committee Name:Resume Review Service
**Supervising Board Member:Sally Gibson
**Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs:Laura Kortz, chair
**Committee members:Tiffany Allen, Valerie Byrd, Caroline Cason, Mary Ellen Icaza
**Committee Charge:
The Resume Reviewing Service Committee gives NMRT members an opportunity to have their resumes and/or cover letters reviewed by an experienced professional in the field. In the past year, this has been accomplished primarily via e-mail. In addition, the Committee provides on-site resume reviewing and a Comfort Station for job seekers in the Placement Center at the Annual and Midwinter conferences.
**2002 - 2003 Project Description / Goals:
1. Propose that the NMRT Board adopt the name Resume Review Service as the official name of the committee.
2. Propose that the NMRT Board adopt the Handbook entry for the committee which was drafted by the former chairs.
3. Continue to provide resume reviewing to NMRT members via e-mail and strive to shorten turn-around time to one week. (Last year 33 resumes were received. We would like to increase this by 50%.)
4. Work with Web committee on redesign of committee Web page.
5. Standardize Comfort Station documents: job seeker sign up sheets, tips for reviewers, and other documents.
6. Work with ALA Placement Center staff to enhance the service at both conferences by adding a pc to the booth.
7. Create a survey for reviewers and job seekers who come to the Comfort Station.
8. Recruit more reviewers for mail-in service, especially public, school and special librarians.
9. Create a cgi form for easier resume submission via the Web site.
10. Change the name of the Comfort Station to something more appealing and less controversial.
**Specific Objectives (numbers, tangible end-products):
Resume submissions will increase by 50%. Job seekers using the onsite service will increase by 20%. We will add at least two school librarian, two public librarians and two special librarians to our pool of resume reviewers.
Financial Report Section:
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Your budget appropriation (see budget) |
a. $100.00 |
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Amount which you have spent so far this year |
b. –0- |
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Your estimated additional expenses this year |
c. –0- |
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Total of amount spent and additional "estimated" expenses for this year (b+c) |
d. –0- |
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Difference between budgeted amount and total expenses from above (a-d) |
e. $100.00 |
f. Vendor support planned or anticipated for the year (either money or in-kind gifts), list here:
None planned or anticipated
g. Vendor support requested: (From the above list, what, if any, has been requested from the
Exhibitor Contact and Relations Committee?)
None requested at this time.
h. Vendor support received: (From the above list, what if any, has been received?)
NA
Specific Needs/Support (non-financial): (For the categories below, please include approximate date service needed)
a. Web Support (help with webpage creation, web form creation, web database, web database, scripting, etc):
Committee members have required Web expertise.
b. On-site conference volunteers: (include estimated numbers needed and brief job description)
We will need approximately 30-40 resume reviewers, but have a pretty good pool of existing reviewers to select from. We will need about 15-20 NMRT members to staff the Comfort Station at both Midwinter and Annual conferences.
Comfort Station volunteers greet job seekers who come to the Placement Center, sign them up to have their resumes reviewed and offer friendly encouragement.
c. Publicity planned for the committee (posting to other discussion lists, official press release for webpage, etc.):
We will advertise the service on listservs that appeal to new librarians, such as newlib-l and nmrt-l. The chair has already written two articles about the service in Footnotes, and we plan to have additional articles. The Comfort Station is usually advertised in Cognotes during Midwinter and Annual conferences.
**Report submitted by:Laura Kortz
**Email address:lk2002@columbia.edu