Post Welcome to our community

The Career Connections community is an initiative of Jim Rettig's presidential year. Its main purpose is to provide ALA members with an opportunity to have their resume/cv reviewed by colleagues and peers. The differences between this community and NMRT's resume review service are the following:

1. NMRT's email service is only available to NMRT members. Career Connections is available to all ALA members.
2. NMRT's Resume Review Service relies on an intermediary who forwards resumes to an appropriate reviewer. Career Connections will enable ALA members to contact each other.
3. NMRT's RRS is done by email. Career Connections will enable ALA members to upload resumes to the group and have several colleagues review them simultaneously thereby giving reviewees a diversity of opinions.

This is just a start. What I'm hoping our working group can do is to come up with a model and plan for making the community successful. Here are a few things I envision doing:

1. Creating a list of ALA members who might be interested in participating as reviewers. Should we try to get the current RRS list of email reviewers? Or should we attempt to recruit new reviewers?

2. Contacting potential reviewers and inviting them to login to ALAConnect and to join our group.

3. Advertising the community to ALA members via association listservs including NMRT-L.

4. Posting our own resumes/cvs to pilot the process.

This is just a start. I am eager to hear your ideas. How can we make this work for ALA members without taking anything away from NMRT's RRS?