HR Games Information

I hope your spring break was great! As you all know, the Dallas
conference is around the corner, Friday, March 31. This is why we need for
those people that are going to this trip to meet with the officers this
coming Tuesday, March 28, at 3p.m., room 329 of COBA.
Please bring your flight number and departure times for EL Paso -Dallas and
Dallas-El Paso, in order for us to plan our trip.
Details about the conference, hotel, transportation, costs, and money that
will be used to defray our trip costs will be discussed. Its is HIGHLY
important for you to attend this meeting. If you are unable to attend please
contact Fernando Burgos at 203-3782 cell or 594-2817 after 9p.m.

Brown Bag Resume Workshop

We are a very active chapter, and this week besides our conference we have a
Brown Bag Resume Workshop. Please bring your lunch and your draft resume 

Wednesday, March 29, 2000 at 1:30 room 323 (Its only an hour long). 

Nick Zweig from Career Services will help you prepare a professional Resume. This will be a
great opportunity to get a final resume critique for those graduating on
May! And for the rest of us, it is always good to have a good, professional,
and up-to-date resume for that internship, co-op or summer work :)

April meeting 

Wednesday, April 5 Room 329 @1:30

• SHRM Meeting: held Wednesday February 2, 2000
  1:30 pm. Room #329

  1. We discussed  this semester’s events and welcome old and new members
  2.  Some of the topics were: Trip to Dallas, HR Games, the Student Leadership conference,  El Paso SHRM
       chapter events and much more

  Here is the agenda in word format: Agenda 2-2-2000 meeting
   

 
• Check out our Newsletter, CONNECTIONS (below)

• Please email me any suggestions, pictures, etc... that you want posted on our web page.  Fernando Burgos

• If you are interested in Joining SHRM or want more information, email   Fernando Burgos or Jackie Eason

• Business Tours and HR Professional Shadow Day are coming! Project under construction

• SHRM  presented  it's 5th Semi Annual Resume and Interview seminar
  on Saturday, november 20, 1999
  9:00 am to 1:30 pm
  Neill Auditorium
  College of Business (first floor)

  The seminar was designed to teach effective strategies to interview and improve your
  resume.  There were be several speakers talking about this topics.  Moreover,
  some agencies  accepted resumes.  So, if you were looking for a job,
  you might have found  one.
  Nick Sweig from Career Services was there critiquing resumes.
  Some of the topics included:

  Resume Preparation
  Interview Preparation with  guest speakers
  Career Services
  Dress for Success Presentation
  Mock Interviews with Audience

  This seminar was free for all UTEP students and FREE lunch was be provided.
  Lets take this seminar as an opportunity to prepare for our future job hunt.
  Just remember, "Today's preparation determines tomorrow's achievement"
   

• November 1999 SHRM Meeting: We discussed all aspects of the seminar for November 20.
   

• October 1999 SHRM Meeting: Was a success. Elisa Patino, our program director invited a guest speaker on Wednesday October 20.  Kathy Anderson  is the Training Specialist for the El Paso Electric Company. She spoke about  Leadership; dealing with difficult employees; ask the right questions; make the right decisions; The emotional competence framework, and more...We thank her for her professionalism and time spent with our student chapter.

The following is a copy of the newsletter which is published monthly. Current issue November/December 1999

Past issues:
September 1999:                         Page1     Page2

November/December 1999:      Page1     Page2