It is time once again to gear up for the Career Center
at the 2010 SAA Annual Meeting in Washington,
D.C. This year it will be a major
part of SAA’s new Networking Café, which will host information
tables for allied archives and records associations, public computers and space
for the Career Center where attendees can meet representatives, recruiters, and
volunteer career advisers; peruse literature and job vacancy announcements; or
post resumes.
If you are planning on attending the conference in August,
please consider volunteering an hour of your time to the Career Center.
Check the preliminary program online at http://www2.archivists.org/conference/2010/washington
to see if you can find a spare hour or two to donate so that a student or young
professional can benefit from your experience.
The Career
Center will be open
during the following times:
12:00 to 5:00pm on Wednesday, August 11
7:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Thursday, August 12
7:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Friday, August 13
7:00 AM to 3:30PM on Saturday, August 14
Due to the extended hours of the Career Center
and the fact that we hope to schedule one volunteer for each shift and two
during the busy lunch/break shifts, we need a total of 41 volunteers. Feel free
to send a few dates and times so that we can coordinate which slot will work
best for you. Participants from the past few years expressed an interest in
knowing the specialty of the advisor scheduled to help, so please feel free to
also add your area of expertise when you sign up so that visitors can plan accordingly.
Thanks for helping out this year! We think it will be the
best year yet for archivists looking for career advice.
Sincerely,
Renna Tuten
Career Development Coordinator
p.s. - questions? comments? suggestions? Feel free to give
me a call at 706-542-0618 or send me an email at rtuten [at] uga [dot] edu