Interest Piqued By Chamber CEO Position
Prince George, BC – It appears the Board of Directors at the Prince George Chamber of Commerce will have a deep well to draw from in selecting the next Chief Executive Officer…
Interim CEO, Dorothy Friesen, says she received 10 new applications overnight Thursday, after the first day of an ad in The Vancouver Sun and a similar posting for the position on Workopolis.
Friesen says they’ll join the six or seven others who first expressed interest in the position when the formal search began last week, giving the board the challenging-yet-enviable task of having a large pool of qualified candidates to choose from.
Friesen resigned from the board, herself, and stepped out of retirement to assume the CEO position in June, after Jennifer Brandle-McCall announced her decision to resign from the position for personal reasons.
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“having a large pool of qualified candidates to choose from.”
How do we know they are qualified?
Well if you look at the intelligence on city council.. If you can respond to a email your in….lol
But the author does not have that magic search engine …. so how could the author know that? …… ;-)
July 31 250 News…. Dorothy Friesen said “I know there are some very, very good local candidates and I hope that they all apply for this job.”
Well, they obviously didn’t. Running career ads in the Vancouver Sun would have been last Saturday, three days after that statement.
While Workopolis is fine (which is a partner of the VanSun), this is the type of job that she should be using LinkedIn to find a candidate. A person in this position should have some serious networking skills and connections to draw from on there.
Now we’ve got recruitment experts in the comments section. Cool!
On this particular subject… yes I am. When I worked at an agency in PG I personally handled the recruitment advertising for the City of PG, Northern Health, UNBC, and Abitibi in Mackenzie, just to name a few.
My wife was in Careers Advertising for the better part of a decade at the Vancouver Sun/Province.
“LinkedIn”????
Good lord, what a crappy piece of spam that is!!!
I was asked to join by several good business friends of mine a couple of years ago …. I did, for a couple of days, until I found out what it actually was. I still have a hard time getting it off my back. I have learned a long time ago to use e-mail addresses for sites I suspect will spam me lot. Luckily I used one of those addresses for linkedIn.
Just recently I got an invitation from a business friend. I wrote him an email warning him about what he is getting into. Just a week or of being on there he noticed it by himself. He also told me that he was not the one to invite me. It simply does it by itself.
Like facebook, it is quite a spam site.
Business networking skills?
I still believe in the tried and true “call a friend who will call a friend who will call a family member who will speak to a co-worker” etc …..
That is a true network.
Here is a forum on some of the problems with linkedin. Not too different from the tactic of facebook and likely 100s of other social media sites who want to make it to the multi-million dollar big time.
http://community.linkedin.com/questions/8947/how-do-i-prevent-linkedin-from-spamming-everyone-i.html
Oh puhleeze… all bow down to Gus the all-knowing.
LinkedIn is like any other online tool. If you don’t know how to use it properly and to it’s full potential, you can get burned. I’ve never had a problem with LinkedIn in the years I’ve been using it, nor have my contacts
Please stop with the fear mongering.
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