CareerNetworkMinistry.org
CareerNetworkMinistry.org (hereinafter, the Site) is the official website of the Career Network Ministry (also known by its acronym, CNM; hereinafter, CNM) located at https://careernetworkministry.org
Contents
Purpose
- The Site shall serve the following purposes:
- To present CNM to occasional Site visitors.
- To direct:
- Those users of the World Wide Web who search for career-oriented resources in the Washington DC metro area to the Site. Content is very important. That is where Content Writing/Marketimg comes in as well as identifying and incorporating Keywords phrases to generate visibility to the site and ranking with the search engines.
- Those visitors of the Site who are interested in CNM's services to CNM's meetup and LinkedIn groups.
- To help those who plan to attend CNM to get oriented in its services.
Requirements
Top-level
- Bob Korzeniewski:
I have a quote that stays in my mind - People don't care what you know till they know that you care. So not sure how to balance our expertise with our caring [...] my gut is the initial take away is that CNM is a warm - comfortable - caring place - then hit them with meetup and other info. Definitely open for debate/discussion - thanks for starting the ball as the initial impression is important.
- The Site shall offer neither registration nor fill-in forms. All resources shall be available to every visitor without any credentials or requirements.
Functional
- The Site shall provide its visitors with:
Benchmarking
The Team will consider the following resources for the best practices to be incorporated:
- Career Connectors - A Phoenix based group that runs their Jobs Club as a separate non-profit (501(c)3). They are active in multiple Churches - different model - some training but more of a Job Fair structure. https://careerconnectors.org
- Roswell United Methodist Church (RUMC) - They have fully embraced their Jobs Ministry as a core part of the Church for the last 25+ years. Lots of media and print have covered their success story. They do no have a separate website that I know of - this link is part of the Church's website but worth reviewing. https://www.rumc.com/jobnetworking/
- Neighbors helping Neighbors - Website is very busy - but these guys have been a very active Jobs Group and expanded their model to other locations. Might be something of value. https://www.nhnusa.org/index.html
- Career Confidence - The local group run by Robert Brandeau. They keep it simple but communicate pretty regularly. https://www.career-confidence.org
- 40 Plus DC - A Job's Group in the city - offers some free services - but then upsells paid services. Has been around for a long time! http://www.40plus-dc.org
- Hired Texas offers some website of organizations similar to CNM. They have some simple but great stuff. It’s https://hiredtexas.org The website is not good, their info is.
Content layout
Landing page
- Generally information on CNM
- Featured workshop and services summary format pictures and/or short video intro to hook the user
- A video of the Orientation Workshop - we just record it
- CNM Manual PDF download
- Evaluation Spreadsheet download given out in the workshop
- User friendly picture links layout of the other workshop and resources at CNM.
Drafts
Bob -- Completely agreed, the website needs to demonstrate our both power and care. In my experience, the care can only be projected by something that Esperanza mentioned -- caring user experience or UX. And this UX, like a good resume or interviewing skills, needs some time and tons of efforts. I would suggest regular iterations, and I can see that we can find volunteer contributors, but the team would need some product owner's involvement -- if not you, there should be someone else who can make decisions.
Also -- I feel like we need to clarify the project. I would suggest to chunk it in several phases -- let say, to start with something better than we have now. Later, to benchmark and incorporate best practices from similar services. And so on.
