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AUGI announces new Career Center

AUGI announces its newest offering to members—a Web-based career center that connects job seekers with prospective employers in their industry. The new job board, powered by career services leader JobTarget, can be found at www.augi.com under the Careers Link. Access at this time is available to AUGI members and nonmembers alike.

By launching an online career center for CAD professionals in every field, AUGI again offers its members superior benefits. The firms that have job openings can find targeted resumes to review and post their openings for our members.

Members can post resumes, create Job Alerts, view open jobs and apply online.

Posting your resume is easy. Just fill out the online forms and you are done. You can upload a resume that you have already created or create one on the fly, complete with employment history and educational background. Our resume count will grow as AUGI members post their resumes online.

As we expand, there is no shortage of jobs or resumes since the AUGI Career Center taps into the network of JobTarget sister sites. We are just getting started and we already can access over 1000 open jobs and over 90,000 resumes.

The AUGI Career Center distinguishes itself from generalist job boards in a number of ways.

These include:

• a highly targeted focus on employment opportunities in CAD, 3D and BIM
  
  
• anonymous resume posting and job application—enabling job candidates to stay connected to the employment market while maintaining full control over their confidential information;
  
  
• an advanced Job Alert system that notifies candidates of new opportunities matching their own pre-selected criteria;
  
  
• access to industry-specific jobs—and top-quality candidates—often not seen on Monster, CareerBuilder, or HotJobs.

Special offers include the ongoing FREE posting for those who are seeking employment. For those looking to post an opening, AUGI is offering special introductory rates – available the first two months. Take advantage of these low rates today!

Go to the Career Center Now!

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AUGI | AEC EDGE - Looking for writers

If you work in the AEC "space" then AUGI is interested in what you do and how you do it - using Autodesk's software.

Why?

Because we'd like to include an article written by you in our next (or future) issues of AUGI|AEC EDGE.

The first issue of this magazine had a focus on Revit and BIM. We had to start somewhere. Now we'd like to reach out to all our members in the AEC arena, yes - even those who don't use Revit, for additional articles about any of the wide variety of products that Autodesk makes for the AEC user.

Just keep in mind that the focus of this magazine is on architecture, engineering (all disciplines) and construction (AEC).  We are looking for case studies, real world solutions, designer/builder/owner perspectives and more.

If you read this and are interested (or know someone who would be interested) in writing for the magazine we'd like to hear from you or them. Rather than call on the same authors for every issue we hope to bring fresh and heretofore unknown authors out and give them a chance to say what's on their mind.

AUGI members are our first source of talent and if you aren't a member we can resolve that easy enough, it's free to join after all! If you want to contact us to discuss an article or to connect me with someone who might want to write please send an email to steve.stafford@augi.com  (be sure to include AUGI | AEC EDGE in the subject please).

Thanks!

Posted for Steve Stafford

Autodesk University 2009: Registration NOW OPEN!

Autodesk University 2009: Registration NOW OPEN!

AUGI Members, Have you registered for AU2009 Yet? - Now is the time to act and save $500 off the regular AU registration fee You do not want to miss this event.

All of the reasons that you enjoy AUGI membership are available in this one event. There will be training - networking - and answers to your questions. It is such a valuable event for everyone who attends. Head on over to the AUGI Autodesk University Channel to learn more about AUGI events at AU.

Once you've gotten updated about all the great AUGI Events, click on the AU Registration link on the left to get registered before all the great classes are full.

And when you register, make sure you select AUGI as one of the Associations that you belong to. When you do that, we'll have a special identification ribbon for you when you arrive. Don't miss out on these great savings!

Click here to go straight to AU registration.

AUGI HotNews - July 2009

Features

Share Your AUGI Stories
AUGI turns 20 and we'll be celebrating all year. You can help by sharing your AUGI-related stories with us. Funny, thoughtful, or inspiring - share your AUGI recollections.

President's Letter: Onward! It has been an interesting seven months. Here, AUGI President Mark Kiker recaps the year (so far) and talks about what's still to come in 2009.

Efficient Edits When you're dealing with paper-based markups, a little order helps a lot. Here, Billy Wooten provides a technique for adding efficiency to the editing process.

Columns

TIPniques: Sheet Set Manager for Drawing Management New HotNews author Shannon Dumdum discusses the use of the Sheet Set Manager within AutoCAD to manage drawings and files. Here's the "how to."

The Civil Side: It's Time to Adopt What? Go to the time and expense of adopting new technology in the middle of a recession? It's actually the perfect time, says Melanie Santer, and here's why.

Sponsor Spotlight: Under the Hood of the Z800 In this article, you'll get a close look at HP's Z800 workstation, from its physical attributes to its processing power.

The Creative Inventor: Believe Nothing, Question Everything Dennis Jeffrey invites you to start from scratch and re-evaluate everything in your engineering environment. Here are his guidelines.

AutoCAD Architecture 2010: Key Features, Part 3 Tharakesh Ananthakrishnan walks you through the wall tools and new techniques in AutoCAD Architecture 2010 software.

From CAD Standard to Quality Assurance Document: You've done your part by creating a CAD Standard. Now, how do you ensure that your staff follows it? Mark Kiker shows you how to use your standard as a guideline for creating a quality assurance checklist.

Read it here