1. What is The Women's SIG about? The mission of The Women’s SIG is to have an environment conducive to developing relationships and making friends who will help each other throughout their careers and job searches. This is NOT a women-only club. All FENG members are welcome to join the SIG and attend our meetings. The FENG Women’s SIG LinkedIn URL is: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1224453...

1. What is The Women's SIG about?

The mission of The Women’s SIG is to have an environment conducive to developing relationships and making friends who will help each other throughout their careers and job searches. This is NOT a women-only club. All FENG members are welcome to join the SIG and attend our meetings.

The FENG Women’s SIG LinkedIn URL is: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12244539/

2. How are we organized?

Programming is overseen by a Steering Committee consisting of up to 5 Co-Chairs. The current Co-Chairs are:

Women's SIG Steering Committee:
- Ana Hernandez Lobato, [email protected], +52-4443291519
- Gerri Facchine, [email protected], (201) 819-6852
- Rosemary Scardaville, [email protected], (908) 229-2621
- Sharon Richter, [email protected], (410) 804-3522
- Toni Hubbs, [email protected], (917) 373-4064

3. MEETINGS:

We meet by Zoom generally on the third Wednesday of each month from 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM US Eastern Time unless otherwise noted. Occasionally, we schedule special programming or extend the duration of a meeting.

Once each quarter we have a meeting devoted to networking using Zoom break out rooms. Other meetings have a speaker addressing a variety of career, job search and other topics of professional development.

4. MEETING REGISTRATION

You must register on The FENG website on the Women’s SIG Landing Page by noon, the day before the meeting @ https://www.thefeng.org/special-interest-groups/women-s/133

You will be sent the Zoom link late afternoon the day before the meeting. If you do not receive the Zoom link, please check your SPAM FOLDER. If you still can’t find it, you have until 8:00 AM the day of the meeting to write to:
Charlotte Leslie
Director, Chapter and SIG Support
[email protected]

Co-Chairs and Charlotte have received requests on the day of the meeting up to and including at 10:00 am (even shortly thereafter) requesting the link and while we make every attempt to (re)send the link, we are engaged in participating in the meeting ourselves at that time and sometimes do not see your requests until after the meeting.

In the event you do miss the meeting, all meetings are recorded (unless the speaker denies permission) and links to recordings are sent out to all those who registered for the meeting within 1 week of the date of the meeting.

5. OTHER JOB SEARCH RESOURCES:

*The Women’s SIG LinkedIn Group
Engage with your fellow SIG members on LinkedIn – The FENG Women’s SIG LI URL is: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12244539/

*The Women’s SIG Cover Letter and Resume Review Assistance
- Avani Doshi, [email protected]

*The FENG’s Peer Resume Review Program
Send your resume to Lew Bader and Cheri Phillips, Resume Review Committee Co-Chairs at: [email protected]

*The FENG’s Mentoring Program
-To mentor others or be mentored, send a completed “Mentoring Program Information Sheet” to Laurie Fan: [email protected]
-The form is located under: Resources, Documents Library, Other Documents.

*The FENG’s Job Clubs
- To join a Job Club email to Joyce Gibney: [email protected]

[A job club consists of 6-10 unemployed FENG members who meet weekly to and are accountable to each other throughout the job search process. The objective of the Job Club is to support each member’s job search and to make each member the very best prepared and polished candidate they can be.]