Committee Progress Report

NOTE: ** = Required Field

 

**Type of report being submitted: Committee Progress Report

 

**Date: March 5, 2003

 

**Committee Name:  Resume Review Service

 

**Supervising Board Member:  Sally Gibson

 

**Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs:  Laura Kortz

 

**Committee members:  Tiffany Allen, Beth Balasubramanian, Donna Braquet, Valerie Byrd, Caroline Cason, Gregg Grunow, Mary Ellen Icaza, Susie Skarl, Nanako Kodaira

 

**Activity in Current Reporting Period 

a)      Projects completed (For example, any procedures, tip sheets, checklists, etc. created during this period):

The Resume Review Service met with great success at Midwinter in Philadelphia: 160 people visited our booth at the Placement Center and many were able to have their resumes reviewed. This is an increase of nearly 100% from the prior Midwinter conference, and a 60% increase over Annual statistics. Susie Skarl and Donna Braquet were instrumental in making the Booth a success by making sure it was well publicized and staffing it for a considerable number of hours. Caroline Cason created a wonderful Web page to promote the service. Tiffany Allen created great flyers: one to promote the onsite service, one to promote the e-mail service and a brochure. Tiffany also created sign up sheets and a participant evaluation form. The Board approved a proposal requesting that the committee's name be officially adopted. The committee is now officially known as the Resume Review Service. A new handbook entry for the committee was submitted to Mike Wong of the Handbook Committee. Greg Grunnow drafted a short history of the committee, to be included in the Handbook entry. The name of the Comfort Station was changed to Resume Review Booth. The e-mail service continues to enjoy success. So far this year 21 requests for resumes have been received. Several were from non-NMRT members, who were encouraged to join. Nearly 30 reviewers from school and public libraries were recruited by Valerie Byrd. The chair set up a YAHOO e-mail account for the committee due to the high volume and large size of the files received. Since most people send their resumes either as Word documents of pdf files, storage capacity can be exceeded quite rapidly. The YAHOO account will also enable smoother transition from year to year.

b)      Projects in progress but not yet completed:

 

We are still working on a new Web page and eagerly await instruction from the Web committee. We are hoping to streamline the review sign up process and other procedures for the Annual Conference in Toronto.

We continue to strive to shorten turn-around time for return of resumes to job seekers using the e-mail service.


**Action Items/Issues To Be Resolved (What is left to do, based on your Planning Report?
Have there been any substantial changes in plans since then? What items, if any, have been deferred until next year?):

 

We need to recruit reviewers with expertise in special libraries and archives. We need to create a Web form for easier submission of resumes. The form should be programmed to send out an acknowledgment. Nothing will be deferred until next year. We are working on meeting all our goals and objectives for this year.

 

 

 

 

Financial Report Section:

Your budget appropriation (see budget)

a. 100.00

Amount which you have spent so far this year

b. 40.00

Your estimated additional expenses this year

c. 0

Total of amount spent and additional "estimated" expenses for this year (b+c)

d. 40.00

Difference between budgeted amount and total expenses from above (a-d)

e. 60.00

 

 

**Report submitted by:  Laura Kortz                       

 

**Email address:  lk2002@columbia.edu, nmrtrrs@yahoo.com