The Mohave County Flood Control District has a GIS Technician Position being advertised this week (please see attached anouncement). Please go to the Mohave County Jobs website (http://legacy.co.mohave.az.us/csvcs/jobsmc/job_info.asp) for more details and application instructions. The position is not yet listed there but will be shortly. If you are interested in the position that have some of the listed qualifications, such as GIS experience but not engineering experience, you are still encouraged to apply. 

 The Job Description is below:

The economy will likely get worse before it gets better. Here’s how executives can keep managers and workers focused and engaged.

by Jennifer Robison

May 12, 2009

"Those executives flying around in private jets and buying fourteen-hundred-dollar trash baskets are making every leader look bad," says a manager at a automotive company in the southern United States. "We've lost twenty-five percent of our workforce in my division, so I'm putting in an extra twenty hours a week or more. Yet my division head is on her second cup of coffee when I get in, and I have no idea what time she leaves at night."

In the toughest economy the world has faced since the Great Depression, most organizational leaders aren't taking time to ponder the upholstery of their antique desk chairs; most are trying to make it through the day. And the economy is likely to get worse before it gets better: Most economists say the U.S. GDP will turn around by mid-2009, but the unemployment rate will continue to climb through 2010.

The Dilemmas of Being a Lenient Manager
 

By Lily Garcia
Special to the Washington Post
Thursday, May 7, 2009; 12:00 AM

Hello. My husband has run a small business of 20 employees for many years, almost all of whom are good friends -if not before being hired, then becoming so during the subsequent years. Because of the good-naturedness of his personality, these employees have taken advantage of his liberal and relaxed attitude, and take off work easily, gather around in lengthy social conversations throughout the day, and then show annoyance on the rare occasion he expresses irritation at their laxness. It is as if the nicer he is to them, the more they are apt to contribute less -- and the tougher he gets, the more fallout there is from his response. I have always marveled about how unappreciated he is as a boss, and wish sometimes they could realize what a real working situation with a tough boss would actually be like for them. I ask this with interest, because your article today makes me think you are suggesting that he needs to be even more reinforcing and inclusive than he already is... and which I think has led to this present situation. Your thoughts?

May 12, 2009

OGCA Annual Construction Symposium

BLUE MOUNTAIN

The advent of building information modeling will have a major impact on project-delivery methods, says Ottawa contractor Doug Burnside, president of Dolyn Developments Inc.

“I think we are going to see more design-build projects as opposed to traditional design-bid-build,” he told a seminar at the Ontario General Contractors Association’s 6th annual construction symposium.