Advisory Email – April 2019

In the view of transparency, below is an excerpt from an advisory email I sent this month:

Things are on the up and up! Big updates as we move closer to the Impact Career Fair.

PROGRESS 🎉

• Impact Career Fair (ICF2019)
  • 208 registered!
  • 19 booths taken, only 11 spots remaining!
  • New: Thinkific, ACL, Canadian Public Service Commission, Absolute Software, Coast Protein, Mobify, New Ventures BC, ehsAI, Bench Accounting, Riipen, Public Outreach Group.
  • Juan joined the team and is supporting with marketing, check out the promo video he made below.
• Primer Workshops
  • Hosted Teresa Duke, former Head of Recruiting @ Unbounce. Takeaways summarized in this blog post here.
• HR Roundtable
  • Another stimulating meeting, key points include using success profiles to define job descriptions, diversity and inclusion (D&I) from a cognitive diversity perspective, and a live example of a company with 64% women without any explicit D&I initiatives.

GRATITUDE WALL 🤝

• Faris Khalifeh for introducing Juan.
• Chris Gordon for supporting with blog features for the companies, those will be up soon.
• Teresa Duke for facilitating an amazing workshop on Designing Interviews to Screen for Values & Culture Fit.
• Carlinda from Preview Careers for stepping up on company outreach for ICF2019.
• Tanveer Siddiqui for amazing insights on long term vision, business model, and introductions.
• Adrian Jonklaas for a stimulating conversation around D&I (read the comments for his response, definitely watch the videos he suggests).
• David Allison from ValueGraphics for offering to provide free copies of his book to companies at ICF2019.

ASKS 🙏

1. Looking for monetary sponsors who align with and want to support this. Welcome any intros!
2. Aiming to hit 1000 registrations by May 20th, do share ICF2019 out with your network.
3. Beginning PR and Marketing, appreciate connections to media agencies.

Next: May 2019 Advisory Newsletter