Bill's Blog July 27, 2011

[GaryVoshol]

Maybe it means the people motivated to answer the survey are also motivated to participate more on the team?

[Rich Kressly]

I find it exceedingly interesting that community service comes in at 10%+ lower than the other categories.

Oh...and like Gary, I'm guessing that anyone answering the questions is likely to be more involved and also that "actively involved" is someone up to the respondents interpretation.

I take all of these surveys with a grain of salt, as the number of respondents is rather low compared to actual participants.

[sgreco]

I'm not really saying this in response to anything, but given that these numbers are from a voluntary response survey, they mean very little to me. There are more than likely multiple confounding variables between those who choose to respond and the responses they choose to give.

[Rich Kressly]

"On a separate note, I mentioned last Friday that Saturday, August 14th 7-8pm ET ABC will be airing a made for TV special about the FIRST Championship. Don't be surprised if the FIRST website has a temporary new landing page soon (like the landing page that appeared just before will.i.am's performance at the Super Bowl)."

Tow thoughts come to mind here:
1.woooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
2. I'm gonna need another barf bag for that landing page, aren't I?

PLEASE, FIRST ... while creating mainstream attention don't degrade the look and feel of who/what you are REALLY supposed to be representing ... PLEASE . Do we REALLY want to teach our students that the right thing to do is to superficially change our appearance based on who one might attract? (insert LONG rant from a career educator here)

[IKE]

Originally Posted by Rich Kressly

PLEASE, FIRST ... while creating mainstream attention don't degrade the look and feel of who/what you are REALLY supposed to be representing ... PLEASE . Do we REALLY want to teach our students that the right thing to do is to superficially change our appearance based on who one might attract? (insert LONG rant from a career educator here)

I always wear a suit when I go to an interview (either side of the table). This would be temproarily creating a superficial change in order to impress a possible employee/employer as I have yet to work a job that REQUIRED a tie much less a suit every day.

That being said, I agree with Rich to not degrade an already difficult to navigate website. I really appreciate the heads up this time as last time the surprise (during build season if I remember right) was not appreciated.

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by IKE

I always wear a suit when I go to an interview (either side of the table). This would be temproarily creating a superficial change in order to impress a possible employee/employer as I have yet to work a job that REQUIRED a tie much less a suit every day.

That being said, I agree with Rich to not degrade an already difficult to navigate website. I really appreciate the heads up this time as last time the surprise (during build season if I remember right) was not appreciated.

To carry that analogy a little farther, would you go to a job interview in swim trunks and flip flops? Food for thought...

[IKE]

Originally Posted by Ian Curtis

To carry that analogy a little farther, would you go to a job interview in swim trunks and flip flops? Food for thought...

Not sure that I understand this comment. I think it has a really good point behind it, could you please go a bit further?