| I. |
10
min |
WELCOME &
INTRODUCTIONS
Peggy Hutcheson (Chair), Joe
DeVita (Region 1), Jean Eason
(Region 5), Chuck
Elliott, Bill Gjertson (Region 6,
Carl Hussey (Region 3), Tarek Lahdhiri (Region 4), and Cliff Wilcox
Staff: Scott Grayson
Guests: Cliff Denney Central
Texas Section Chair, Dawn Remeson Section Newsletter Editor |
| II. |
5 min |
BUDGET &
ADMINISTRATION |
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A. |
Approval
of 28 October Meeting Summary
The Committee unanimously
approved the 28 October 2006 meeting Summary. |
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B. |
2006-07 Budget & Sales to Date
2006 Sales (PDF) &
2007 Sales to Date (PDF)Scott reported that the committee has
$32.7K for 2007. He also reported that the IEEE-USA BoD is encouraging
committees to apply for funding for projects from the IEEE-USA
Voluntary Contributions Fund.
Scott reported that the sales
for the Salary Survey were lower than anticipated in 2006 but there
will be a new business plan in place that will address this in 2007. |
| III. |
40 min |
PRODUCT
& SERVICES UPDATE
(Please Review Action
Plan Prior to the Meeting) |
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A. |
Engineering Skills
Symposium
Peggy Hucheson shared with the committee a proposal to hold an
Engineering Skills Symposium. The Committee agreed it was a good
idea. The committee agreed to discuss further via
telecon after this meeting. |
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B. |
JibberJobber
(Grayson)
Scott reported that the committee provided a favorable review of
the JibberJobber product. The Committee recommended moving
forward with adding JibberJobber to our Career and Employment products
and services |
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C. |
EmploymentNavigator
Scott reported that he has received many
positive comments regarding the new Employment Navigator. The
enhanced EmploymentNavigator is being powered by SimplyHired and may
expand to other IEEE non U.S. Regions. The first will be Region 7
(Canada). |
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D. |
Webinars (Wilcox/Hutcheson)
The committee successfully scheduled
five webinars during 2006. Each webinar averaged 30-40
registrants but usually had between 8-20 participants. The
Committee discussed charging a modest fee to ensure registrants attend
the webinar once they have registered. |
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E. |
Career
Checkup (Elliott/Hutcheson)
Scott, Peggy, Chuck and John Yaglenski (webmaster) will set up a
meeting to discuss how the Career Checkup will be displayed on the
web. |
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F. |
eBooks
(Grayson)
The Committee recommended the following eBook
titles for 2007. The Committee will discuss an action plan for
accomplishing this task on their next teleconference.
-
EEs Where are They Employed
-
Networking Job Fairs
- Employment Law (Patents, Liability, Ethics)
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G. |
CareerNavigator
Scott reported that the CareerNavigator is being looked at, by all
IEEE members, as a one stop shopping portal page for career and
employment needs. He also referred to the work of the IEEE
Career Services Committee that is designing a website that will
promote all career, employment and educational products and services
to the members. |
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F. |
ECS Virtual Community
Scott reported that the ECS Community continues to be the most
successful IEEE Community as measured by numbers of users, discussion
threads and individual postings. Scott also reported that he and Helen
Hall will work this year to organize and clean up the community while
deleting old job postings. |
| IV. |
10 min |
IEEE-Wide Career & Professional
Development Activities
-
IEEE-USA "Annual" Meeting
Committee members have agreed to participate in sessions to be
held at the Annual Meeting. During the brainstorming
session committee members recommended topics.
-
IEEE Careers
Committee (Eason/Grayson)
Jean reported that the IEEE Careers Committee has had several
meetings during the past year. The Committee will be designing a
website that will be arranged in a way to meet the needs of members
in different career/life stages.
-
Liaison with
IEEE-USA Career Workforce Policy Committee
Tarek reported on the activities of the Career Workforce Policy
Committee.
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Discussions with Region 7 & 8 (Grayson)
Scott reported that the three Ps (President, Past President,
and President elect and he meet with other regions directors and
representatives on an on going basis, during the Board series
luncheons to discuss how IEEE-USA can work with them to promote
employment, career, and professional development.
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| V. |
10 min |
Survey Updates
-
Salary Survey, Database & Calculator (Grayson)
Scott reported on the progress of
the change in the business plan for the salary survey. We
will provide members who fill out the survey 5 free uses of the
salary calculator per year. If they need more uses they can
purchase those for a reasonable price. Employers will be
able to purchase both an unlimited year subscription to the salary
calculator and the salary database.
-
Employment
Survey
(Grayson)
Scott reported that the Employment Survey is now an eBook.
-
IEEE-USA Career
Workforce Policy
Intergenerational Survey (Grayson/Hutcheson)
The committee reviewed the CWPC intergenerational survey and
asked what the purpose of this survey was. [Subsequent to
this meeting Scott talked to Paul Kostek who explained the
survey was not being conducted by the CWPC but by he and Dr.
Trudy. Paul Kostek was the recipient of the grant not the
Committee]. Additionally, IEEE Research has become
involved and has suggested different wording, questions and
format in some instances.
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| VI. |
3 hours |
2007 Goal Setting & Work Plan (Hutcheson)
The Committee plans to discuss these items in a telecon to be
scheduled in April 2007.
BRAINSTORMING DOCUMENT
(PDF) |
| VII. |
10 min if time permits |
REGION (1-6) COORDINATOR REPORTS (Please submit written
report)
Region 1 Report (forthcoming)
Region 2 Report
(forthcoming)
Region 3 Report
(forthcoming)
Region 4 Report
(forthcoming)
Region 5 Report
(forthcoming)
Region 6 Report
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VIII. |
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NEW BUSINESS: No new
business. |
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IX. |
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NEXT MEETING(S):
The next Meeting will be held on 3
November 2007 (Tentatively scheduled for San Diego, CA) |
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X. |
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ADJOURNMENT: The meeting adjourned at 4:45 p.m. |