cB is Hiring!, apply here! =) Options

[*superstitious*]

So you think you have what it takes to become a staff member here? Great, because we're looking for more volunteers to help out run createblog! Remember, being on staff is a job that takes responsibility and dedication, and not just a title to show off. If you became a member only recently, stick around longer and prove yourself to the community.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Passion. People who have a passion for helping others. Helping out the community is what you'll mostly be doing as a staff member, so you better enjoy it!
• Dedication. Dedicated and active people are the ones that make the most impact to the team. Be one!
• Creativity. We always welcome creative people to join our team with fresh ideas on how to manage and improve createBlog as it is still a growing community.
• People who lead by examples, not by promises. We want people with a proven track record, not just promises. Anyone can make promises to do this, to do that, but few actually do.

WHAT WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR

• Bad attitude. We do not want staff members who think they are above others. You must respect your fellow staff members and members in order to earn respect back. Remember: attitude is a little thing that goes a long way.
• Immaturity. We want to build a talented and mature staff team. The last thing we want is someone on a power trip.
• People who dislike helping others. As a staff member, your number one priority will be to help out others, so if you don't enjoy it, you won't enjoy the job either.
• People who want the position for the title. We periodically review our staff performance, and in the past, those who applied for the sake of having a nifty title never did that well...

AVAILABLE POSITIONS

• Design Staff: As a Design Staff, your main responsibility is to assist in and overlook all of the Resource Center sub forums. The ability to create Blogger, MySpace or Xanga layouts and be familiar with HTML and CSS is highly preferred. Knowledge of PHP, Wordpress and Moveable Type is a plus. You must also make the commitment to go through the queue on a regular basis, reviewing submissions and providing some feedback when rejecting submissions. You should also be a regular presence in the Designers' Café, providing feedback, critiques and assisting in overall graphic related inquiries.
• People Staff: As a people staff, it is your job to maintain a healthy community by moderating posts and topics, welcoming new members, making interesting topics, and being nice and helpful in general.

REQUIREMENTS

• Atleast 5 posts per day for design related staff and 7 posts per day for People Staff.
• Official Member or Official Designer status.
• Have been present and active for the past 2 months (at least).

Note that someone who does not have all the above requirements may still be hired if found to be extremely qualified. If you feel you are exceptionally qualified to be considered for a staff position, do apply!

HOW TO APPLY
In ONE paragraph, tell us how YOU can make an impact and improve CB. Post below only; any PMs will be ignored. Applications end July 31st, 2007 11:59PM EST. Have fun, and good luck!


For interviewing purposes, please your contact information such as email and IM. If you can't provide these, we can also conduct it via PM. A member of staff will contact you about setting up an interview.

NB: If you know you will not have the time to commit to your position, please do not apply.


Also note that all posts made in this thread that aren't applications will be deleted. The discussion thread is located here.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:**

The staff would like to conduct interviews with all the applicants. For those of you have already applied, please add in your contact information such as email, IM, etc. If you can't provide these, we can also conduct it via PM. From there one of the members from staff will contact you about setting up an interview. Thanks!

[ArChAn9eL]

LOL @ acid. I doubt you'll find any respectable job with that attitude. Here's a tip: Work at acquiring the position first before introducing these ideas in such a way which may be passed off as ludicrous. You may just end up like that guy from Live Free or Die Hard ....

Anyways, back on topic: I'd like to apply for the People Staff position. I don't meet the requirements due to lack of activity for the past forever or so. You may disregard this whole application after just reading that but if you're still interested you may find that I exceed the qualifications listed in the desired areas. Passion: I am always striving to do my best whenever I get interested in something. When I first snowboarded I fell all over the place, but I enjoyed it so much I pushed myself to learn every aspect of it and now I can bust board slides on boxes and rails and do 180s of ramps (still working on those 360s). I also got myself interested in Photoshop, Flash, HTML, Film editing (Final Cut), Audio editing (Adobe Audition, Mix Meister), and people go to me to fix their computers (hardware and software alike) all for the pure enjoyment. *I can prove my knowledge in any of those fields if requested upon. I can keep going on about my passion but I believe those captured my point. Dedication: I love this part because I learned so much about this from different positions I held in real life situations. I was part of a dance team in high school and college. Let me tell you this: If you aren't dedicated at this you will never pull through when it comes down to the performance. When you're part of the team, you commit to it 101%. If you straggle behind, your team will suffer (especially in competition when you see that one dude off count and it kills you by those 5 points you needed to beat the opposition). Being dedicated to your work is everything to success. This also ties in with passion, I can't imagine someone so dedicated to something that they're not passionate about unless their lives depended on it (i.e. work). Dance is a passion. Creativity: Boy, I love this part! This is what I live for. I can't stress how much of importance being creative is a part of my life. Without it, life to me would be pointless. Anyways, enough jibber jabber about who great it is and more on the examples! Okay, I have demonstrated creativity when I was on my high school's newspaper that ran weekly (one of the few in this nation) called The Moor. I served as a Features page editor which allowed me to create a whole range of dynamic layouts that you wouldn't normally on newspapers but in magazines instead. I got the chance to utilize a design team to create the layouts that were to be developed and shaped by the content varying from week to week. (A funny tidbit: Our newspaper adviser tried out to be the red Power Ranger). This not only allowed me to express my creativity but required me to edit the context of the content which were to either stir up controversy or bring up issues at hand. I had to make sure that everything that was to be published wouldn't offended people as well which was kind of hard to do in such a diverse and stereotypical society. Sometimes this couldn't be avoided and we had to do damage control. I still enjoyed it immensely though. Except for those days we were racing against the clock to meet deadlines (weekly publications are hell! I can't imagine how the LA Times and other newspapers do it daily...well maybe their staff of a million helps...). Leading by examples: Ohh, I'm so glad you put this here because I can't tell you how many people promise things and don't deliver. I can tell you this because I heard a load of promises that were broken from a whole lot of people (this is the way life is I guess, just look at all those damn politicians). I am a part of a professional business fraternity. I want to stress the professional and business part because it's not like those other fraternities that get drunk and party from dusk til dawn. This fraternity only accepts business majors who want to further their studies in the field of business and share those interests with fellow brothers. This a nationwide fraternity and very well organized. When I was pledging for this fraternity I served as the President. It was one of the best times of my life. I worked closely together with a team of pledges which were required to throw three types of events: Professional, Fund raising, and Social (we have our fun). During this time together I had to deal with conflicts, communication, and keeping morale high. I focused on allowing everyone to work in a stress free environment while pledging because we had to deal with school along with arranging all these events along with other requirements held by the fraternity. We all made it through and had a blast at the same time, which was what I was aiming for because I believe in that "all work and no play..." deal. As of now after crossing I am serving as the Vice President of Chapter Operations. A couple of my responsibilities lie with keeping the chapter in order. I also offered up a couple of my skills in maintaining a forum for our website which I am currently operating at the moment. I look forward to continue serving my position to the best of my ability in the following quarter. I can assure you that I do not poses any of the bad qualities you listed but it's getting late and I need to rest after a long day at summer school which I'm glad is over yet sad at the same time. FYI, it was a photography class and I learned so much that I began to love photography and craving a digital SLR.... O.O

I just realized I maybe applying for nothing, but that was kind of fun...I might use this as my resume haha!

*Edited for not reading instructions...damn game over for me already...ohh wellz that was fun