We are pleased to announce that we’ve acquired “Charlotte Young Professionals”, Charlotte’s leading organization for Young Professionals.
You can read all about it in our press release.
We are very much looking forward to bring our own brand of young professional hijinks and mayhem to the Queen City. Particularly if Charlotte is the Queen City.
Special thanks to Charlotte Young Professionals founder Matthew Corsi, who did such an amazing job in growing the organization and in giving back to the community.
We’re now hot for an Event Director for South Florida. The job description is the same as the one below, except for the slow-driving retirees in the left lane. Interested? Drop us a line at jobs+sofla@netparty.com.
P.S. No junior Ginger Baker’s, please.
Well, not desperately
NetParty is seeking a superstar to manage our NYC chapter. We will be meeting with interested candidates this week and are available during work hours and evenings for interviews.
NYC Event Director
Our NYC Event Director will be the “face” of NetParty in NYC. This is a rare opportunity and a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the right person, a self-starter who can handle much responsibility and demonstrate great initiative.
This is currently a part-time position. However, we have big plans for NetParty, including launching an online business/social network to complement our offline events, and you will be considered for further opportunities within NetParty, including full-time opportunities, as they become available.
You will be responsible for helping to grow NetParty in NYC, including assisting with the growth of our membership through partnerships, innovative marketing initiatives, and social media outreach.
You will also be responsible for planning and managing our NetParty events from start-to-finish, including finding and making deals with the best local venues, hiring and managing event staff, assisting us with the marketing and publicity of the event, managing the social media presence for our events, and more.
We expect that you will be able to devote approximately 8-10 hours a week; however this may vary as this is a newly-created position that may require some flexibility. Moreover, the position is commission-based, so you will be rewarded for your efforts and your income will grow commensurate with our growth in NYC.
In addition, if you have an interest in sales (not required), you will also be extended a commission for local sponsorships you secure.
Your responsibilities would include:
• Helping us to further grow our NYC membership
• Keeping up-to-date on the latest and greatest event venues in NYC
• Negotiating with the venues to obtain the best benefits (drink specials, hors d’oeuvres, etc) for our members
• Recruiting, hiring, and training event personnel
• Helping to promote and market our events online and offline
• Managing our presence on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MeetUp and other social media services. Experience with these services is not required but is preferred.
• Finding and securing event sponsorships (if sales are not your strong suit but event planning and marketing is, we would still love to talk to you).
You must:
• Have great enthusiasm for the business/social networking space and for creating great events for young professionals!
• Be a leader who can exercise control at an event, while handling any problems that arise with diplomacy and grace
• Be a strong negotiator
• Be polite and possess strong customer service skills
• Be “in-the-know” with regard to NYC nightlife and the new, hot, “in” places
• Have an interest in event marketing (we will train you)
• Demonstrate strong writing skills
Compensation
Compensation for the NYC Event Director position is commission-based and commensurate with the growth, success, and expansion of our NYC events.
Interested? Please send an email to jobs+nyc@netparty.com. And please send us whatever you’ve got: a resume, a photo of you, links to your writing, links to any relevant social networking profiles (perhaps to show you are a “connector”), whatever you think might help us in determining who the best candidates for the jobs are!
Finally, we regret that we may not be able to interview everyone who applies. Please do know that we greatly appreciate your interest!
We want you!
We’ll be in San Diego this week, for our big event at Fluxx and looking for a San Diego Event Director and for help securing local sponsorships.
Interested in joining our team? Do you have the skills, talent and passion to help plan, create, and carry out great events in your city? Or, are you interested in local business and sponsorship development? If so, we’d love to meet with you this week at Hotel Indigo.
Drop us a line at jobs@netparty.com if you want to grab a cup of coffee and talk. We look forward to meeting you.
NetParty will be attending (and perhaps presenting) at Startup Riot on February 17 and we wanted to let you know about this unique one-day conference in Atlanta.
During the course of the day, fifty entrepreneurs take the stage at the Fox Theatre’s Egyptian Ballroom and present, in 3 minutes and 4 slides, their startups. The day then concludes with a fun afterparty.
All of the attendees are pre-screened and they’ve lined up a great keynote speaker (Bo Peabody, former co-founder of Tripod.com and author of “Lucky or Smart?”) as well as some great press attendees like Robert Scoble (aka “http://twitter.com/scobleizer“).
Startup Riot is currently taking applications to both attend and present and it’s free to do both. Here are the links:
http://startupriot.com/attend
http://startupriot.com/present
We look forward to seeing you there!
We’re excited to announce the hiring of Cortney DeArmond as our new Chicago Event Director. Cortney is already planning a full slate of NetParty Chicago events for 2010.
We are actively hiring Event Directors in most of our NetParty cities. The Event Director is the “face” of NetParty in their city and we believe it can be a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the right person, a self-starter who can handle much responsibility and demonstrate great initiative.
An Event Director is responsible for planning and managing our NetParty events from start-to-finish including finding and making deals with the best local venues, hiring and managing event staff, assisting us with the marketing and publicity of the event, managing our social media presence, and more. We expect that the job will require 5-10 hours per week.
- Keeping up-to-date on the latest and greatest event venues
- Negotiating with the venue to obtain the best benefits (drink specials, hors d’oeuvres, etc) for our members
- Recruiting, hiring, and training event personnel
- Writing the description for the event
- Promoting the event online and offline
- Managing our local presence on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media services
- Finding and securing local event sponsorships (if sales are not your strong suit but event planning and marketing is, we would still love to talk to you)
- Have great enthusiasm for the business/social networking space!
- Be a leader who can exercise control at an event, while handling any problems that arise with diplomacy and grace
- Be a strong negotiator
- Be polite and possess strong customer service skills
- Be “in-the-know” with regard to local nightlife and the new, hot, “in” places
- Have an interest in event marketing (we will train you)
- Demonstrate strong writing skills
Sound interesting? We’d love to hear from you at jobs@netparty.com.
A new member has been joined our small team. We welcome Kristen Kos as our Social Media Queen responsible for helping you connect with other NetParty members on Facebook, LinkedIn, MeetUp, MySpace and wherever Web 2.0 may lead.
Kristen has helped established local groups in each NetParty city (see the links on our invididual city pages, for example: http://atlanta.netparty.com) and national groups, as well.
Check out NetParty Nation on Facebook and LinkedIn and, of course, be sure to follow our hair-raising, thrill-a-minute adventures on Twitter.
Thanks to the over 400 young professionals who join us at -1 Lounge for our San Diego Launch Party. All the photos from the event have been posted. We look forward to seeing you again soon!
Because if our experience means anything, people in Vegas like to spread the word!
We are currently planning our Las Vegas Launch Party which will be held in November. Although we posted some general information about the event on this website, we’ve yet to email or tell even a single Las Vegas NetParty member or Vegas resident about the event. Not one. Yet – we already have more than 200 RSVPs! Guess that means we’ll have a “full house.”
Las Vegas NetPartiers: Why not join our excessively new NetParty Las Vegas Facebook Group?
About This Blog
Netparty is the free, worldwide, young professionals network offering:
- NetParty Business and Social Networking Events
- NetParty Seminars
- NetParty Career Services
- NetParty Young Professionals Travel
- NetParty Nightlife.
This blog will keep you updated on what we're up to and how it can help you succeed in both your professional and social lives.
Jeff Strank if the CEO/Founder of NetParty.
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