Democratic GAIN, in conjunction with New Organizing Institute, is bringing members from across the Democratic family together for a job fair on April 13th. If you would like more information – please go here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=8350434854
To be officially registered, please use either of the following links.
Jobseekers:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1095/t/1710/event/index.jsp?event_KEY=37190
Employers:
https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1095/t/1710/event/checkOut.jsp?event_KEY=36223
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I almost never post items that aren’t jobs, but I’ve just started a new website that I think you might be interested in. The address is www.polfeeds.com. It provides news from all of the Presidential campaigns and the White House, as well as many Members of Congress. If you’re interested in a particular politician, you can just go to “name.polfeeds.com”, for example, barackobama.polfeeds.com. You can also limit your view to particular types of items. If you want to see only blog posts by House members, you can go to polfeeds.com/house/blog.
For those of you familiar with RSS feeds, the site works by syndicating all of the RSS feeds from these politicians. So, obviously, the site only has news from those Members of Congress who have RSS feeds (all of the Presidential candidates and the White House have feeds).
PolFeeds also allows you to subscribe to these RSS feeds. You can either pick individual RSS feeds to subscribe to or subscribe to an entire group of feeds. Just put “/rss” at the end of any address to subscribe to that group. So, if you wanted all of Speaker Pelosi’s feeds, you can just subscribe to nancypelosi.polfeeds.com/rss. That way, you don’t have to track down every RSS feed she has.
One of the benefits of this site is that many of the RSS feeds provided by Members of Congress are almost impossible to find on their sites. It took hours of searching to find them. Since I’ve already searched for them, you don’t have to.
I hope you enjoy the site. If you try it out and have any problems, suggestions, or if you just like it, let me know in the comments on this post.
I’m sorry for the long delay in posting. Be sure to go to the second page, lot’s of jobs posted tonight.
Will
So, while demwork.com will continue to be composed primarily of job descriptions, I’ve decided to post the occasional article as well. Sometimes there’s information that is good to know when you’re looking for a job on the Hill. This first one is short, but it’s important to know that right now the Congress is in recess.
What does this mean for you? Well, while most offices don’t want to get calls after you send them a resume (unless they’ve already contacted you), when the Congress is in recess, we’re much less busy. If you wanted to try to get a meeting with a staff member from your home district/state, make a call to a contact, or just take a chance and come hand out resumes (although this last one rarely works), this would be the week to do it. You’re likely to get more attention because there’s just not as much going on. The caveat is that because recesses aren’t busy, there’s a higher than normal likelihood that whoever you would want/need to talk to would be on vacation.
Come see us. After all, it’s the people’s house.