Thank you to everyone who came to our first Jobnob Happy Hour yesterday at District Wine Bar. We had an overwhelming response with over 300 people coming out and two news crews: one from ABC News and one from NBC News. You can watch the NBC videos “Will Work for….. Free” here:
And here is a link to the ABC News clip “People Stand in Line to Work for Free” http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/business&id=6802255
Now that we know that there is plenty of demand for this event, we will be doing a monthly Jobnob Happy Hour in the Bay Area- you can check out the website for more details at www.jobnob.com/happy-hour. The best thing to do is sign up for the list and we’ll send out an email each month with details of the date and time. We’re not sure quite yet when and where the next one will be, but it will be in approximately a month.
For this first one, the number of people who showed up was more than we expected for our first event, so we apologize to anyone who had to wait in line (or anyone who showed up but didn’t come in because you didn’t want to wait in line). We learned some lessons from this first one that we will implement for the next ones. The first is that we need a bigger venue, so hopefully there will be no more waiting in line next time and it won’t be quite so crowded. Also, we got feedback that the start ups weren’t doing a good job of buying the job seekers drinks, so we’ll try to fix that too. And lastly, both job seekers and companies want to see the list of who is coming online before and after the event. We didn’t get people’s permission this time around to publish the list, so we didn’t want to suddenly do that. But next time we’ll figure out a way where people can see who is coming from our website. Of course if you attended and have any other feedback, we’d love to hear it. You can use the contact form on the website to send us a message or send a message to contact at jobnob dot com. Thanks again everyone and we are looking forward to the next one!
