Business Briefs/Calendar
Announcement
Contact:
Gail Baylor, Public Relations Chair
828-771-2048
gbaylor@warren-wilson.edu
For
Immediate Release
Date:
March 30, 2004
HR
Association: North
Carolina JobConnector
(Asheville, NC):
The next regular meeting of the Western North Carolina Human
Resources Association will be at 12 noon on Wednesday, April 14,
at the Renaissance Asheville Hotel in downtown Asheville.
Guest speakers for the
meeting will be Bill Sykes and Scott Sinclair, who are private sector
professionals with many years experience in the fields of project
development, program management and marketing.
They were selected by the Chairperson of the Employment
Security Commission of North Carolina to build and oversee the
development of the North Carolina JobConnector.
JobConnector is an enhanced web-based application that offers
an easy-to-use “self-service” experience to employers and
candidates. It provides a
method of a simple job order and applicant profile entry while quickly
matching the job to qualified job seekers.
The program is open to members, students and anyone interested
in learning more about human resource-and management-related issues.
Reservations are
required by 5pm Friday, April 9, 2004 and can be made by emailing Mike
Neely at mneely@ingles-market.com,
or by calling 669-2941, extension 310.
The cost of attending the lunch meeting is $16.00 for member
and students, $20 for nonmembers, and includes lunch (a vegetarian
option is available by request when making reservations).
The
Western North Carolina Human Resources Association is a certified
chapter of the Society for Human Resources Management, and is
comprised of human resource and other professionals from various area
businesses and industries. The
purpose of the association is to develop the personnel function in
each participating company by close contact and cooperation with
others in the same field, to facilitate the dissemination of
information of value to human resource professionals individually and
collectively, and to promote positive human relations principles.
