Staffing For Fanimecon09

[darkknightcecil]

Who Is up for Staffing Next year?
I AM
Are you excited for next year?

[mlarad]

How do you sign up to be a staff member?

[SOawesomeness]

Very carefully. Jaykay...
To sign up, you can either attend a meeting a few months before the con (but too early, and some heads won't be prepared/will forget, probably) and talk to HR if you don't know what department you want to join, or talk to the head of whatever department you want to join... or send an e-mail to either department saying you want to join and they'll tell you if you need to attend meetings (some departments have different requirements) or extra meetings, etc...

Join Reg. You'll love it because I'm there. (:

I'm so up for Registration. (:< I'll be able to add to the snuggly family.

[Steve.Young]

If your 18+ join SOS/Rovers.
If your under 18, join Reg.

If you don't want to do either, join Panel staff. Rena will love you.

[Pimpstress Rei]

Very carefully. Jaykay...
To sign up, you can either attend a meeting a few months before the con (but too early, and some heads won't be prepared/will forget, probably) and talk to HR if you don't know what department you want to join, or talk to the head of whatever department you want to join... or send an e-mail to either department saying you want to join and they'll tell you if you need to attend meetings (some departments have different requirements) or extra meetings, etc...

I have to politely disagree with the whole don't sign up too early for staff. It's never too early to sign up for staff! Sure you may not be asked to do anything, but it's better to have someone ready and gearing to go than having to scramble for staff later.

Besides, it makes our job easier so that we can focus on the larger issues like putting on a great con!

[ewu]

well there's no clear info on signing up for staff....until THIS post =D

our staff site as well as other staff resources have yet to go online but you can contact our HR by e-mailing hrATfanimeDOTcom. Be sure to give your age so that they know what options you have open to you.

[Shi_Musouka]

My best bet is that if you are EXTREMELY PICKY about what department you want to work for, it's recommended to sign up early because departments do start to get full as the deadline approaches. Sadly, not all departments have or need bottomless pits like Reg and SoS :[...

But that's just my 2 cents so yea.

(P.S. I'm a "maybe" on staffing/attending for now, but we'll see as it gets closer to con)

9/11 edit: Don't forget that some departments may have certain prerequisites, such as being 18+ for ConOps, Tech, Logistics, SoS, etc., previous drawing experience or writing experiences for certain Publications departments, and so forth. By signing up early, you wouldn't have to stress over those minor things. Generally, not much experience is needed for being on general staff(other than the ability to work in a group environment), but there are departments with restrictions.

(I swear, the fact that I did this on 9/11 is merely a coincidence and nothing more)

[ewu]

contact and talk to the department head. make yourself valuable to them so that they will add you to their staff and if they are outta room, they will make space for you.

But then what do I know....I'm just a division head....I only officially have a staff of 8......

[Steve.Young]

contact and talk to the department head. make yourself valuable to them so that they will add you to their staff and if they are outta room, they will make space for you.

But then what do I know....I'm just a division head....I only officially have a staff of 8......

And then everyone in your division works for you...its more like 200

[ewu]

details....

and it was more like 101...tho ops and gen prog had more:P

[Steve.Young]

Considering rovers actually beat reg in terms of people, yea Ops did.

[Pimpstress Rei]

Considering rovers actually beat reg in terms of people, yea Ops did.

Ah ha I have you both beat! My staff is about 500! Bow down!

[ewu]

not for last year it wasnt!:P

[Steve.Young]

Considering rovers actually beat reg in terms of people, yea Ops did.

Ah ha I have you both beat! My staff is about 500! Bow down!

You cheat.

[zemric]

wtf did we even have 500 people last year?

[Pimpstress Rei]

Considering rovers actually beat reg in terms of people, yea Ops did.

Ah ha I have you both beat! My staff is about 500! Bow down!

You cheat.

Three more years for you!  :D

We normally have around a staff of 500. Keep in mind there are people who do work pre-con so not everyone is working during the weekend.

[ewu]

looks like just shy of 560 people on staff last year...

[Sen]

looks like just shy of 560 people on staff last year...

And it's still not enough so go to staff meetings and join staff!

[Steve.Young]

Wow, 560...so many minions!

[zemric]

whoa i thought we only had like 400 people.