700 + Members and Cory Burk is Famous

EX-TEK Nation,

Hope you are all doing well.

  

I would like to recap the purpose of this LinkedIn Group.

Our purpose is to form a LinkedIn group with several potential benefits:
1.) A resource for us to partner with each other - whether we have moved on to new staffing firms or other corporate entities with external recruiting needs.
2.) An outlet for us to recruit one another - a resource for any of us who has found themselves looking for a new opportunity or new employee.
3.) A resource to reconnect with long lost co-workers

The blog belongs to all of us. The only stipulation, as I have also written before, is that we keep the content clean. This is not a venue to discredit, slander, or otherwise seek to damage the Allegis Group of Companies. We all had different experiences there. In looking at where people have gone since, I can discern that many of us learned a great amount from the opportunity. We are at different junctions in our lives now, and that is where the group will provide value.

I would like to congratulate Cory Burk, Program Manager - University Relations at IGT.  Cory is EX-TEK member number 700.  Cory, here is your fifteen minutes of fame.  No doubt, with all this attention, you will update your LinkedIn profile with your soon to be added EX-TEK tattoo. We might have a conference call and make you get up on top of a desk and give us a speech..."I really want to thank my contracts manager for firing me.., so I could join EX-TEK and become somebody." 

I keep coming back to this,but do you realize that this Group was started in the last week of April?  Unbelievable. The great thing is, look at all the wannabes that have jumped aboard - there are now LinkedIn Groups popping up left and right - all with the intent of emulating the one, the only, the original EX-TEK.  I have joined a few.  Why not? They have given me more people to invite into our group.  I must be humble and admit that our logo is the coolest.  Agree?

By the end of next month, we will be sitting at close to 1000 members. But only if all of you get the word out.  No slackers allowed in the group - I expect all of you to have at least five submittals by the end of the month...or else face serious consequences...like...I don't know...maybe I will spam the non-producers with one of those Nigerian Bank Account Scams...or hold your commissions until all your timecards are in...

Anyone care to share a story about how EX-TEK has re-connected you with a long lost co-worker?  Or landed you a job?  Or created an opportunity to partner on a business deal?  Have any of you Attention Deficit slackers even made it to the sixth paragraph of this post? Doubt it.  

-JW