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<< back to the 2002 archive listing << Dairy, Food and Environmental Sanitation Commentary From The Executive Director Encourage your employers and colleagues to place an ad in the DFES Career
Services Section Have you searched for a new job recently? Has your employer announced layoffs or is someone you know affected by a layoff? Where would you turn if you had to look for new employment? This month I want to review with you an E-mail message that I received from an IAFP Member on the subject of “Career Services” sections of journals. Steve Berry, Environmental Health Manager with the City of Plano Texas wrote to me with questions about our Dairy, Food and Environmental Sanitation Career Services Section. Apparently, the City of Dallas had just announced layoffs that included 30 to 35 health department employees. Steve had met with a concerned Plano staff member earlier that day who was worried for his own job. Steve stated in his message to me, “I tried to put myself in the shoes of a City of Dallas employee. Where would I turn if I knew my job with the City of Dallas was about to be history?” He said he would look first at career services sections of the major journals he receives to see what job listings were presented. Steve went on to say that he was amazed at the extremely low number of jobs listed each month in DFES and other journals and wondered what we were doing to increase the listings. My response to Steve was that this situation has bothered me for a long time here at IAFP! It seems to me that we offer a cost-effective method for advertising position openings and in addition, we offer a means to immediately reach an audience of food safety professionals. But even with cost-effective means and immediate access to our audience, we have not attracted a significant number of job placement ads. What can we do as an Association and as a group of interested Members? We can do our best to let potential employers know about our Career Services Section and try to encourage their ad placement and you as an IAFP Member can direct your company or agency to advertise position openings in DFES. If we expect you to be able to “promote” IAFP’s Career Services, we need to give you a little more information about the program. Ads in the Career Services Section are sold based on column inch at $25 per inch. The first two inches are FREE! No cost! The columns in the Career Services Section are one-half page wide allowing more text per inch than a three-column page would. Set up charges are free for text ads and a second insertion of the same ad can be placed for one-half the total ad fee. This translates into a full-column ad that can be presented to our 9,000 plus readers for about $150. That is not the end of the deal either. I mentioned an immediate reach to our food safety audience. This is achieved through the IAFP Web site. On our Home Page, there is a button that takes you directly to our “Career Services” web page. There you will find position openings that have run or will run in DFES. As soon as we receive your advertisement layout approval, the ad is placed on the IAFP Web site. There is no additional charge to have your advertisement placed on the Web site, but you do have to agree to print the ad in DFES to have it placed on the Web site. This opens your ad to an endless pool of interested food safety professionals. One additional aspect of the Career Services Section applies to IAFP Members looking for employment. Unemployed Members are welcome to place an advertisement promoting their skills and abilities at no charge! Just contact our office if you are interested in placing a job search ad for yourself. So there you have many benefits of placing an employment ad in DFES. Now, go
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