Re: Re-upping STC membership?

Subject: Re: Re-upping STC membership?
From: "Bill Swallow" <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "Guy K. Haas" <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:31:50 -0500

> We kept hearing that the survey figures were suspect -- that members were
> understood to be inflating their numbers. Comments?

You run that risk with any survey. Period. Whether it was actually
happening or not, we'll never know.

> Meanwhile, is there yet any attempt by HQ to gather demographic info about
> what industries members work in/with, so that we can see WHERE the various
> kinds of TecComm jobs are?

That would be nice.

I'm also not privy to the actual job data being collected and
(apparently) sold by the STC. If it's the type of job data that my
company's HR department pays for already, it's good data. If it's as
Gene describes, flush it.

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Bill Swallow
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Senior Member STC, TechValley Chapter
STC Single-Sourcing SIG Manager
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References:
Re-upping STC membership?: From: Cardimon, Craig
RE: Re-upping STC membership?: From: Dori Green
Re: Re-upping STC membership?: From: Gene Kim-Eng
Re: Re-upping STC membership?: From: Guy K. Haas

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