Employment and Career
Service Committee
Report for Region 2
Committee – Feb 4-5, 2006
Joe Kalasky
- Coordinator
IEEE-USA's Employment and
Career Services Committee is charged to develop and dissemination products and
services that assist IEEE members to sustain
their professional development, career satisfaction, and life-long
employability. Specific functions of the committee include:
- Improving current employment, career and professional
development products and services.
- Assisting local sections located in Regions 1-6 in
providing assistance and information to unemployed members;
- Providing Rapid Response Team Workshops for recently
laid off employees and to develop workshops and seminars that will empower
engineers in continuously changing career and employment issues;
- Using various feedback mechanisms, such as surveys,
to determine the value of current services to IEEE-USA members and to
determine what additional services and programs are needed and practical.
- Increasing the awareness of the members on the need
for lifelong learning, and developing effective materials and
presentations to enhance employers' awareness that encouraging lifelong
individual continuing education is in their best interests.
- Studying and communicating successful career development
strategies for engineers
Recent Activities
Via
Pittsburgh
Section Professional Activities,
Two
popular meetings in late 2005:
Invite
two prominent local technical recruiting firms to speak
Oxford Technical and Alltek
Informed
Members on how to use these services
Interviewing
techniques
Establish
contact between Section and Recruiting Firm.
Suggestion:
Each Section invite one or two local technical recruiters to speak at a Section
Meeting ( Professional or otherwise.)
Plans for 2006 in Pittsburgh
- Engineers as Attorneys
- MBA Programs
- Personal Finance
- Resume Preparation
- Transition to Management.
Feel free to use these
ideas.