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Come on, love me for the money

WHO: The Job Fair and You!
WHERE: A small park near City Hall
WHEN: Today
WARNINGS: Capitalism?
SUMMARY: It's the job fair. Come one, come all.
FORMAT: Para to start then whatever

It's the most wonderful time of the year. The sun is shining, the mosquitoes are biting, and it's time to think about what the hell you're doing to do with your life now that the summer is winding down. Which is probably why you've ended up at the City Hall sponsored First Semi-Annual Job Fair Spectacular.

The small park has been pretty much taken over by this event. Tables for each company/group that signed up are in rows with either a representative to speak with or a held down stack of promotional materials for any interested parties to pick up. Good luck, job hunters.

[[ooc: Each group that signed up in the OOC post will get a thread below. Even if there are only fliers there, feel free to leave a comment to let the player who runs the company know yours is interested. People manning booth, just start a thread under your group's heading with a description of what's up. Feel free to bump into people and just generally interact as well. If you have a group you'd like to add that you didn't sign up on the ooc post, feel free to add them! April did literally no vetting. Everyone is welcome.]]

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Summary of Business/Group: Electronics R&D, consumer electronics, etc!
Skills/character types you're looking for?: Starktech is always hiring! They will take PR, Secretaries, R&D folks, StarkTech has a lot of avenues for people to work at!

Edited 2013-08-10 16:36 (UTC)

Summary of Business/Group: Mostly the job description consists of making sure City Hall doesn't get blown up, that the Mayor doesn't get kidnapped, all that good stuff. Generally, it means your character will be in charge of shit that's out of the regular security's hands. However, it's also a totally boring job 99% of the time. More information on the team and the (to be updated) roster is over here on Bradbury's journal.
Particular skills/character types you're looking for?: The ability to listen to orders, some kind of combat skills/experience, no axe to grind against the government/authority/existing City Hall employees, no criminal record or affiliation with known criminals (within the City, anyway), basically don't be crazy. Obviously, this would be Bradbury's ideal, but sadly reality is not always as one would wish it, so things can be fudged. Characters can be employed as actual muscle or in more of a logistics/risk assessment capacity.

Summary of Business/Group: It's a nightclub!
Particular skills/character types you're looking for?: Waitresses, entertainment, bartenders, etc!

Summary of Business/Group: It is a small but fairly prestigious dance troupe that does a variety of traditional ballet and modern dance.
Particular skills/character types you're looking for?: Natasha oversees the fundraising aspect of the operation and hires people for office work. She's more interested in giving imPorts jobs but keeps this motivation secret. If your character is actually a dancer or wants to do something else with a dance company, I am sure she could get people a job/tryout, too.

Summary of Business/Group: Government! Generally, City Hall employees other than the security staff work in the general government. Duties include pretty much everything that you can think of, records, the office of the comptroller, public advocate, and the separate areas of the different boroughs regions of the City. I use NYC's government as a template, which means there are also all of these departments as well, as well as import/native relations as another section, and there's a pretty strong disaster recovery showing since imports blow up stuff all the time!
Particular skills/character types you're looking for?: Anyone who's interested! Pretty much, if your character is interested, just hit me up! Mitch is always looking for more staffing, and if your character has an interest, or an avenue that's of interest to your development, just let me know and we can work something out!

Summary of Business/Group: A dance club. Small but very popular.
Particular skills/character types you're looking for?: bartenders, DJs, and bouncers perhaps. Also robot scientists who might be able to break into the lab in the sub-basement

Summary of Business/Group: Chemical manufacturing/distribution/R&D, technological development/engineering/R&D, weapons development
Particular skills/character types you're looking for?: Secretaries, researchers, developers, management, PR, etc. for (preferably experienced) adults, unpaid internships available for 18-and-unders.

Summary of Business/Group: Psychiatric Hospital for the (mostly but not exclusively imPort) criminally insane
Particular skills/character types you're looking for?: Secretaries, nurses, doctors (therapists, psychologists, surgeons, etc.), volunteers, assistants-to-staff, bookkeeping/office work, etc.!!

Summary of Business/Group: Anyone in the City who can play, or is interested in playing, an instrument of some kind. MAMA'S GOTTA NETWORK okay
Particular skills/character types you're looking for?: Professional musicians, people looking for lessons, potential bands, kids who play Rock Band that Cyd can run off her metaphorical lawn, etc.

Summary of Business/Group: A federally funded organization that deals specifically with Immigration and Import-Related issues-- housing, adjustment, business endeavors, permits, etc.
Particular skills/character types you're looking for?: Therapists, Law Enforcement, Social Worker, Data Entry

Summary of Business/Group: ImPort-run non-profit medical clinic offering bleeding edge medical services and research opportunities.
Particular skills/character types you're looking?: Healers, doctors, scientists!

Summary of Business/Group: A magazine focused on the imPort lifestyle and fashion, currently being run by a lot of teenage girls and Shinji
Particular skills/character types you're looking for?: Journalists, models, other writers

Summary of Business/Group: A source of legal enforcement in the City, under the supervision of NPC Commissioner Roberta Hernandez. The force primarily consists of native police officers, but there are a couple of imPort employees.
Particular skills/character types you're looking for?: Anyone and everyone, from officers to lab techs to receptionists!

[As she does daily at City Hall, April can be found sitting behind her 'desk' at the booth, elbows resting on the edge, idly tying away at her phone. Mostly only when no one is actually talking at her, but there's no promise she's going to look up. The pamphlets stacked next to her are there to do the talking for her, anyway.

Just this one day. Then she can be free of this community service nightmare and get back into the revenge game.]

Summary of Business/Group: April has rooms to rent.
Skills/character types you're looking for?: People capable of paying rent and doing all the chores. Preferably ones that can be tricked into paying more than their share of rent without knowing it.

There is no real additional summary for this booth. It's just April, sitting behind a table during the hours she isn't at the City Hall booth. The sign in front of it looks like it was initially going to say APRIL LUDGATE NEEDS RENT before the last word was crossed out and replaced with roommates.

See. She's putting some effort into marketing.

[ for the most part, kanaya just looks bored. she's gone about taking photos of the fair already, taking little notes every now and then, but she doesn't know how she's supposed to turn this into a story. she doesn't do stories to begin with, even a ridiculous fluff piece like this, but with how shorthanded the staff is now that their editor-in-chief is gone, everyone has extra slack to pick up.

she spends most of her time at the magazine's booth, fiddling with her sketchbook and putting on her best smile whenever someone passes. she half expects this whole day to be a bust. ]

[ It's the tail of her hours when Mitchell comes by, ostensibly to relieve her, but she's still got a bit longer to go. Mitchell hadn't been planning to stay long, having work to do, but he thought he'd swing by for about an hour or so, get his face out there, chat with any potential hires.

After all, practically 50% of his job was more networking than anything else, the rest was work, of course.

Of course, April still appeared to be her usual, uncaring self, tapping away at her phone, but Mitchell was back in action in all avenues, and his voice came through loud and clear, cutting the phone off. ]

STOP WHATEVER YOU'RE DOING. [ Well, she really shouldn't be on her phone during work time anyway. ]

You did a good job, April.

[ Now, the Mayor wasn't there for very long, and he couldn't be expected to be, but he did make a showing, and there was a good hour and a half when he wasn't talking to the media, or having an interview or two about the whole thing. He made sure, of course, to give the real organizer credit, but after he waved them off so he could actually help out with this whole community service and volunteering thing, he'd be found standing somewhere near the City Hall booth.

Somehow immune to the New York summer, or more accurately, ignoring it through sheer force of will, still in his usual black suit and red tie, although the jacket was unbuttoned, and his hands hovered around his hips. After all, he was human, even if he was very good at pretending he wasn't. Then again, this was nothing compared to leather and a jetpack on his ass. ]

Ugh!

[The phone gets thrown down in outraged despair. How could this happen to her. It had been so close to being a good month- outside of all the terrible parts. She frowns up at the boss, ignoring that last part. Praise wasn't...really a thing she dealt with. At all.]

So. You're back.

[ He gave her a look. ]

I never actually left, you know. Come on, it hasn't been that bad, has it?

[She sighs, at least knowing better than to point out he hadn't been mentally hacking her electronics for the last (glorious) few weeks.]

There are people here. That want to talk to me. This is a nightmare.

[ Good girl, April. He would say it was just to fuck with her, anyway. Nothing unusual at all. Not like his powers were out of commission for too long, or anything, although that semi-distracted look is back on his face most of the time. It'd been a long few weeks without that, which had meant sharp focus from Mitchell at all times. ]

Shit, I think you chose the wrong line of work if you don't want to talk to people. They're not that bad most of the time.

They are. And I'm just a poor Indiana girl. This is the only life I know.

[The last few lines may have had a fake Scarlett O'Hara accent thrown on there. Just a little.]

[ It felt good to get out of his penthouse, finally. He'd been spending most of his time out of it, ever since he'd woken up to not having the behind of a rather large primate, and even though normally he'd leave something like this to the people who worked for him, maybe the PR staff, or recruiting, he'd been out of the public's eye for too long.

So he'd shown up in one of his very fancy cars, a bright red one, at that, shades perched over his nose. He'd shown up in slacks and just a white button up, leaving the tie and everything else at home, and since it was the middle of the morning, he'd even leave the shades on for the entire day.

He stayed close to the booth, but not necessarily right next to it the whole time, opting to get out and move. Cabin fever was certainly something that could apply even to him, and even though he'd practically lived in his suit, or at least mentally. ]

[ He rolled his eyes, slightly. ]

Come on, it's not that bad. Sure, sometimes it is, but this is a good thing to be doing! You're helping people find work and promoting import businesses.

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Come on, love me for the money

Stark Technologies

City Hall Security Team

The Iceberg Lounge

Natasha's implied dance company

City Hall

Dancitron

OsCorp / Osborn Industries

Norman Osborn Hospital of Psychiatric Evaluation

City Musicians!

The Department of Integration

ImPort Clinic

City Lights Magazine

The City Police Department

During Hours Manned by Apirl

April Ludgate Needs Roommates

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Mid morning, a few hours

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