Good Food Jobs is a gastro-job search tool, designed to link people looking for meaningful food work with the businesses that need their energy, enthusiasm, and intellect. We post opportunities with farmers and food artisans, policy makers and purveyors, retailers and restaurateurs, economists, ecologists, and more.
ON THE WEB
Our job search engine is a work in progress. Check out these and other web developments on goodfoodjobs.com :
We're working hard on the mobile version of the site, so no other updates this week. Stay tuned!
Do you have a recommendation? Constructive criticism? Or have you noticed a glitch? Let us know. And stay tuned for more updates. We're always scheming.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Finding Your Place in the Food Movement: This Summer & Beyond*
04.22.13
Williams College
A Slow Food Approach to the Job Search: Redefining How We Find Meaningful Work*
04.23.13
University of New Hampshire
*NOTE: These are both closed to the public, but if you'd like us to do a similar talk at your organization, let us know.
Food Book Fair: Food + Enterprise
05.05.13
1:00 - 6:00 PM
For more information about Good Food Jobs related events - past, present, and future - visit goodfoodjobs.com/events.
NICE THINGS PEOPLE SAY
I just discovered your site through the recommendation of a friend and I am so excited and inspired!!! I love your positive approach to finding engaging, satisfying work in this field. I will be back daily.
- Karen, GFJ Fan
Thank you for the emails. I rarely read all of the listings I'm involved with but I always read yours, even though I am not searching for a job.
- Victoria, Newsletter Reader
I'm a senior just about to graduate college and I've been absolutely glued to your site ever since you opened - I love to read the descriptions of the newest job postings, and get inspired by the gastrognomes blog.
- Talia, GFJ User
We are so pleased to be of service.
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Have you ever wondered how the two of us met? We were both hired as campus tour guides in college. And while the greatest bonus of that experience is that divine forces brought us together, we can't say enough about how valuable it was as a public speaking exercise (emphasis on 'exercise' - we did have to walk backward, uphill, while projecting our voices).
Those 75-minute tours tested many of our skills: hospitality, customer service, clear communication, connecting with others, oration, and answering unanticipated questions.
Looking back, we realize that our jobs as campus tour guides might have had the greatest influence on what we do now, at Good Food Jobs. Not only is the root of the work the same (helping people find their place along a meaningful career path), it taught us the value of getting out in front of people, working to craft a message, and adapting it so that it's most useful to a specific audience.
It is, by nature, a vulnerable process. Will everything you say always be pertinent? No. Will you master it overnight? Probably not. Does it take time and energy and practice to make it perfectly imperfect? Yes, of course.
Yesterday and today we're giving talks at Williams College and the University of New Hampshire, respectively, and we're excited to have incorporated lots of new material since our last visits a year ago. Is it risky to introduce new material? You bet. But is there value in moving the conversation forward? We believe so, and we hope you'll agree.
We urge anyone who's listening to continue to move the conversation forward. We're looking forward to hearing what you have to say.
Cheers,
Taylor & Dorothy
Co-Founders, Good Food Jobs
the GASTRO.GNOMES BLOG
Tedd Snowden
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