News archive - 2010

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Waterloo’s new electronic recruitment system

Posting from Liz Koblyk, UW Staff Career Advisor

You likely recently received an email about myCareer@uWaterloo, the University’s new electronic recruitment system. Unless you’re currently actively searching for a job, you may have quickly skimmed the message before getting on with the rest of your day. Before you do the same with this blog post, keep in mind that the time to familiarize yourself with a recruiting system is before an interesting opportunity comes up.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

2010-2011 Exec Members

As announced at the AGM held today, the 2010-2011 executive is thus:

President (two-year term): Trevor Grove

Past President (two-year term): Doug Dye

New members (two-year term): Sheila McConnell, Darlene Ryan, and Jeremy Steffler

Continuing members (completing two-year term): Robert Bernard, Annette Dietrich, and Jason Gorrie

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Upcoming Career Events

Posted by Liz Koblyk, Staff Career Advisor

Thursday, September 30, 2010

UWO Staff Association to hold a strike vote Oct 5

The UWO Staff Association (a union which represents nearly 1000 staff working in faculties and admin units across campus) is holding a general meeting on October 5 at which they’ll hold a strike vote. Their contract expired June 30.

The UWO Faculty Association is currently in the midst of a strike vote – they’re holding it Wed-Friday of this week.

More info: http://communications.uwo.ca/com/western_news/stories/uwosa_to_hold_strike_vote_20100927446858/

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Nomination Update

I am pleased to announce that the election committee has received and verified the applications for the following positions:

President (require 1):
Trevor Grove

Directors (require 3):
Monika Bothwell
Ed Chrzanowski
Sheila McConnell
Mike Patterson
Darlene Ryan
Jeremy Steffler
Michael Tennant

The polls will open on Wednesday October 6, 2010 and close on Thursday October 21, 2010. The election results will be made official at the AGM Thursday October 28, 2010. More details on the election to follow.