<p>I noticed an email in my Indiana account from RPS with many job opportunities, one of them being for an IU RPS Program Liaison position. Have any of you had any experience with this program and or have applied for this school year. It is my understanding that is there one liaison per dorm making this seeming very competitive yet I can’t find to much information on the position online. I’m interested in your thoughts. </p>
<p>I applied. It is very competitive. 8 positions and almost anyone is eligible to apply. I searched CC about it earlier this week and there were a couple of vague posts. All from users who didn’t receive the position in the end.</p>
<p>We must have stumbled across the same threads! And yes, I did apply. It seemed like a fantastic opportunity. Do you know anything else about the program? Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>I don’t know too much. I did stumble across the posting for the RPS Graduate Assistant somehow and it described the supervisor position for RPS PLs. Mostly the focus was outreach and making sure students living in residences get involved.</p>
<p>One thing I hated was emailing the application. I hate emailing anything important without for sure confirmation they received it (I mail everything with delivery receipts). IU Gmail doesn’t have permissions for read receipts either, so that was frustrating.</p>
<p>It’s hard to figure out if RPS views it as a student leadership position with high responsibility or a professional job opportunity. Outreach in general is more of a student leader thing, but obviously promoting/marketing is more professional. But for this type of role you don’t want someone with work experience and poor social skills. Hard to pinpoint what they’re looking for.</p>
<p>I am not in McNutt or the KLLC, however I am a DA to Kelley with SPEA interest. </p>
<p>Due to the nature of the application with the PDF component and the Word component I had to print out everything and then scan it to get the complete application in one file as I do not have file merging capabilities. I did receive a response informing me they received the application and will be making decisions by the end of the month contrary to the posted date of July 26. </p>
<p>As for the qualifications they are looking for, I felt they were overall very broad and generic allowing the opportunity for nearly any type of student to apply. It’s obvious that they will be doing their best to put together a well rounded team of a diverse group of students.</p>
<p>When did you email them and receive a response? I emailed them late Thursday night and haven’t hear anything, which is worrying.</p>
<p>I did the same thing you did because of the PDF. I originally uploaded my application a a PDF to email them, but it looked awful once converted so I kept it in a Word document.</p>
<p>Since you emailed them early they were probably able to respond to you so fast. I’m guessing applications flooded in Thursday and Friday. I confirmed the email account I sent it to compared to the application so I should be good, will have to email them Tuesday morning if I haven’t heard anything.</p>
<p>The job description was very broad. Leaves applicants guessing as to what the full position entails. I guess it will be up to the group to market events, or organize? </p>
<p>My personal opinion is that this position is in fact a leadership position as liaisons are rewarded with a stipend. Under the scholarship tab on the RPS website it makes it clear that if you receive a stipend you are not employed by RPS. For this reason I think it will be a lot of community outreach and negotiating possible activities. </p>