The woman who had been cheerleading cornered Monroe to take down her number, but she needn’t have bothered. The applicants, many in business suits and ferrying résumés in leather portfolios, stared politely – but Robin Monroe, a 54-year-old Schenectady resident dressed a little more casually, raised her arms and shouted “Yes!”
Outside the Social Enterprise and Training (Seat) Center, DJ Ketchup was doing similar work, trying to keep hundreds of applicants standing on the sidewalk and another 30 seated under a tent, where they reviewed job openings while dance tunes such as Macklemore’s Can’t Hold Us, Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines and Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive played.īack inside the Seat Center, the female representative shouted “We want to see enthusiasm!” while doing a couple of recognizable cheerleader poses.
