**Type of report being submitted: Committee Final Report

**Date: July 1, 2004

**Committee Name: Resume Review Service

**Supervising Board Member: Marilyn Ochoa

**Co-Chairs: Donna Braquet & Susie Skarl

**Committee members (as of June 2004):

Caroline Cason, Jennifer Cella, Sarah Cohen, Mary Ellen Icaza, Laura Kortz, Nanako Kodaira, Robyn Rosenberg, and Susanne Sacchetti.

**Goals, Objectives, Projects completed (including, but not limited to, any procedures, tip sheets, checklists, etc. created during the reporting year):

The committee had an outstanding year and completed most of our goals. In particular, at Midwinter in San Diego, 126 people visited the booth and 60 had their resumes reviewed. At Annual in Orlando, 194 people visited the booth and 127 had their resumes reviewed. We were fortunate to have three reviewers per hour during the conferences, equaling around 50 reviewers per conference. Between July 2003 and June 2004, our e-mail service completed 82 reviews, nearly doubling last year's statistics.

 

Project Description/Goals:

The committee edited many useful documents this year. Sign-up sheets, statistics sheets, evaluation forms, business cards, flyers and brochures were created for the conference service. Additionally, committee members made a special effort to publicize the RRS at Annual and Midwinter on various listservs, in Cognotes, and other avenues of communication.

One of the major goals of this year's RRS Committee was to create a comprehensive online guide focusing on library employment resources. The resource guide is now available at the following link:

http://www.geocities.com/nmrtrrs/jobguide.html

The guide includes links to employment sites by location and specialty, information on interviewing, resume and cover letter tips, a job hunting bibliography, and several other job-related resources. This will be an on-going project and the committee will continue to update the guide as resources become available.

**Action Items/Issues to Be Resolved: (What plans/projects remain which will be carried over or postponed until next year? Have there been any substantial changes in plans requiring a reconsideration or cancellation of projects? Information regarding such will be helpful for future chairs and planners.)

In the upcoming year, the Co-Chairs will work with the web liaison to create a form for easier resume submission and reviewer application via the website.

Following suggestions from reviewees, the Committee will be revising the conference sign-up sheets to include more information about the reviewers (including areas of expertise, special skills, etc.).

The Co-Chairs will work the committee to devise criteria by which reviewers will be selected upon application.

Due to new free storage (100 MB) availability by Yahoo!, the Co-Chairs will cancel the fee-based Yahoo! Account ($20.00) which has now exceeded our needs (1 GB).

The committee will work more closely with the SASCO Committee and other appropriate committees to ensure that we target library school students and recent alumni.

The committee will work to enhance the Job Hunting Resource Guide, by adding more websites and articles.

The committee will identify new resources (books, articles) to have on display at the conferences.

The Co-Chairs will work with committee members on a plan to recruit more reviewers (especially more public, school, and special librarians) for both the conference and the e-mail service.

 

Financial Report Section:

Your budget appropriation (see budget) a. 100.00

Amount which you have spent this year b. HOW MUCH $$ did we spend??

Difference between budgeted amount and amount spent (a-b) c. ??

 

**Report submitted by Susie Skarl

**Email address: susie.skarl@ccmail.nevada.edu