Host a Community Jobs Forum - Invitation from White House

[OneGrassRoot]

Crosspost from GD (where this has, amazingly, been unrecommended)

Email just received from Valerie Jarrett:



On Thursday, President Obama is hosting a discussion at the White House to explore every possible avenue for job creation. Small business owners, CEOs, economists, financial experts, and nonprofit groups, as well as Americans who have felt the impact of this economic crisis firsthand, will be there to share ideas.

But you don’t need to be here on Thursday to participate. You can join the discussion by organizing your own jobs forum with your family, friends, and co-workers -- because these conversations can take place in living rooms and conference tables, not just arenas and convention centers.

We’re looking for community leaders like you from all across the country to host discussions from now until December 13th. Your community jobs forum will be a source of insights and ideas that will inform the President’s approach to job creation.

To get started, let us know you’re interested, and we'll send you information that may help you organize a successful jobs forum in your community:

Get Started

In the coming days, we’ll follow up with discussion questions and other materials to help make your event as productive as possible. We’re not able to offer an events center where anyone can find events already happening, so if you haven’t heard of one in your area, start your own and reach out to your network for participants.

After the event, we’ll provide a simple online tool for you to submit job creation ideas and thoughts. Back here at the White House, we’ll compile your feedback and send it to the Oval Office for review.

With all of us working together, we’ll get America working again. Get started organizing a jobs forum in your community today.

Look forward to hearing from you,

Valerie

Valerie Jarrett
Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement


http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/11/24/host-a-commun...


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[doodadem]

1. I posted this in the jobs forum a few days ago

"Would this be helpful--quick blurb on jobs?
As I posted in this forum a few days ago, I'm a recruiter. I also posted that I had given up on recruiting for I.T. jobs, and why. Now, wouldn't you know it, one of my recruiting buddies has asked me to help him with several new I.T. related positions.

Here's the refreshing and encouraging aspect to these positions--they are not predjudiced against the currrently unemployed, and they are not asking for the moon. They are not even demanding a degree--its only a preference.

So I'm wondering, would it be helpful to post what I'm looking for on some of these? Or is that against DU rules? This same client is also looking for some financial related folks, which I normally don't do, but hey--gift horse, and all that.

Good company, good location if you like a medium-sized town in a low cost of living area, and they are offering relocation packages.

I would love to put some fellow DU'er's to work!!!"

I've only had one response............

[OneGrassRoot]

2. Interesting....

It's hard to keep the truly helpful things in front of people. Gets lost in all the bitching and moaning; granted, there's a lot to bitch and moan ABOUT, but still.....

Maybe you can post again, but this time in the Computer Forum?

In the meantime, I'm going to kick these OP's periodically, trying to inject something positive we can perhaps DO (even for the skeptics among us) in the midst of all the chaos and frustration and anger.

Best of luck to you, and thanks for thinking of other DU'ers!

:hi: