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How a Mentor Can Accelerate Your Career | Mashable

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At the beginning of your professional career, everything in front of you can appear daunting. During these formative years, you are deciding what you want to do, who you want to be and where you are going to start. Many of us change our minds about our future career before we hit the workforce, and then there are, of course, job changes throughout your career.

The overwhelming stress of this phase can be alleviated by finding a mentor to give you guidance and help you achieve your career goals. Learning from a successful mentor in your field of interest can elevate both your professional capabilities and confidence better than any Internet search results or well-intentioned parental advice.

See How a Mentor Can Accelerate Your Career | Mashable for the full article.

Career Related Articles Useful to MIS/MLIS Students

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On The Modern MLIS website there is the Resources page where I list a number of career-related information services links. I faced a number of challenges in my own job search including taking time off after finishing my MLIS and transitioning my career into a new direction. The easiest ways to ensure you have a job offer after graduating, or to at least increase your chances of being contacted for an interview, is to work in a library services role while you are completing your graduate education and to network by participating in library conferences. New graduates should anticipate their job search taking up to 6 months or even longer before finding employment.

How to Survive and Prevent a Bad Internship | Hack Library School
Many MLS/MLIS programs require, or at least strongly recommend, an internship or practicum before graduation. Internships are great ways to taste-test a type of librarianship, network, and get practical experience. The unfortunate reality is that we don’t always know what we’re walking into when we begin an internship. So, how do we survive or prevent a bad internship?

Congratulations! Now Get A Job. | Hack Library School
It’s time to get a job. In a discouraging economy. Of course, I saw this coming, but I kept my view hazy, even as I researched different career paths. So, now that reality has finally arrived, how does a freshly minted graduate go about finding her first LIS job?

You’re Interviewing them Too! Finding the Academic Library Job of Your Dreams | Backtalk  | LibraryJournal
This article shares a list of key considerations for academic library job-seekers.

The Simple Truth About Finding A Job | AOL Jobs
You’re looking for a job. Chances are it feels complicated, scary, overwhelming. My job-seeking clients have found the chart below comforting and helpful. It contains the essence of what you have to do.

How to be Awesome at Going to Library Conferences | PC Sweeney’s Blog
The author (a Branch Manager East Palo Alto Library in California) shares his experiences about what makes an awesome conference experience.

Big Idea: Post-Secondary Degrees with the Best Career Prospects | Avenue Calgary
There is a section discussing Information Specialists.

What Job Candidates Really Want: Meaningful Work – Nathaniel Koloc – Harvard Business Review

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What talented people want has changed. They used to want high salaries to verify their value and stable career paths to allow them to sleep well at night. Now they want purposeful work and jobs that fit clearly into the larger context of their career. And that means they want jobs that are sensible parts of an ongoing journey through a series of professional endeavors — not some supposedly linear path toward “success”.

via What Job Candidates Really Want: Meaningful Work – Nathaniel Koloc – Harvard Business Review.

Author’s Corner: A Librarian’s Guide to an Uncertain Job Market | Hiring Librarians

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At some point in the near future, you hope to be sitting opposite a library administrator or search committee convincing them that you are the best applicant for the job. However, that meeting will undoubtedly be preceded by many, many small steps. The secret is preparation and that preparation must begin long before the interview.

via Author’s Corner: A Librarian’s Guide to an Uncertain Job Market | Hiring Librarians.

Are Ambitious People Happier? | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

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From what the researchers found, ambition had clear causes and effects on lives as they grew into maturity via Are Ambitious People Happier? | Fast Company | Business + Innovation.

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Relationships Are More Important Than Ambition | The Atlantic
The conflict between career ambition and relationships lies at the heart of many of our current cultural debates…Ambition drives people forward; relationships and community, by imposing limits, hold people back. Which is more important?

 

Researcher’s Corner: Reference Competencies from the Academic Employers’ Perspective | Hiring Librarians

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Researcher’s Corner: Reference Competencies from the Academic Employers’ Perspective | Hiring Librarians

Quotable: “One of the best ways for aspiring reference librarians to succeed in the job market is to have a clear understanding of job expectations, to develop the necessary skills and proficiencies, and be able to demonstrate and discuss those abilities on their resume and in job interviews. In this column, I share the results of a survey of academic reference librarians indicating what skills and knowledge they believe is important in the field right now.”

The Most Important LinkedIn Page You’ve Never Seen | Wired Business | Wired.com

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The Most Important LinkedIn Page You’ve Never Seen | Wired Business | Wired.com

Quotables:

“Tucked behind your professional, yet pretty, profile picture, the descriptions of all your past jobs, and that column of “People You May Know” is a section of LinkedIn that most people have never heard of, let alone seen. And yet it’s the real reason why you should actually care about sprucing up your LinkedIn profile and network.”

“If you care a whit about your career not only do you have to be on LinkedIn, you should have a detailed profile with your job history. It should look like your resume. Taking advantage of LinkedIn features like Skills can also make you more searchable to recruiters. And of course, build out your network with people you know.”

“Instead of sticking to the usual job board or paying an outside agency to find candidates, recruiters can use LinkedIn to find exactly who they want with the skills and experience they want.”

The Happiest People Pursue the Most Difficult Problems – Rosabeth Moss Kanter – Harvard Business Review

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“It’s now common to say that purpose is at the heart of leadership, and people should find their purpose and passion. I’d like to go a step further and urge that everyone regardless of their work situation, have a sense of responsibility for at least one aspect of changing the world. It’s as though we all have two jobs: our immediate tasks and the chance to make a difference.” via The Happiest People Pursue the Most Difficult Problems – Rosabeth Moss Kanter – Harvard Business Review.

Digital Libraries Digital Humanities: Current and Emerging Roles for Librarians…04.01.13 | The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian’s Weblog

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Digital Libraries Digital Humanities: Current and Emerging Roles for Librarians…04.01.13 | The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian’s Weblog

Information Security: The future workforce | TechRepublic

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Information Security: The future workforce | TechRepublic