Please vote for me! I am running for one year term Member-at-Large position in AAPS Election 2014.

I am committed to AAPS members and strive to diligently protect job security, enhance professional development, and promote knowledge sharing.

Having recently been transferred from an ongoing position at Library to a term position at UBC IT, I understand how important (yet tenuous) our job security is — that is why I will strive to emphasize the critical need for job security. Nonetheless, we have to face facts that “termination without cause” is unlikely to be removed from Article 9 any time soon. Therefore, professional development becomes extremely important to us since job security is no longer guaranteed. If we continue to build on our expertise for a hungry job market, then we will never need to be afraid as decent jobs are everywhere. Only continuing professional development can make us competitive.

AAPS members have diverse backgrounds and I believe knowledge sharing among members (from different job groups and within the same job group) will help all of us. Together, our knowledge sharing makes us more competent and competitive in the job market.

I welcome your feedback!

Thank you for your support. Please vote for me!

Sincerely yours,

Minghui Yu

Programmer Analyst, UBC IT