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Career ManagementPlanning, Creating, and Sharing
Susanne Markgren | [email protected]
Special Libraries Association (SLA) Hudson Valley Chapter Annual Meeting, November 19, 2014
Who Am I?
Academic librarian
Writer
Career advice columnist
Professional development advocate
Professional development is just another name for career management.
Managing Your Online Presence –
Building Your Brand
Keep your resume updated -- and translate it to the web
Think about creating a professional online identity
Find a place for it (blog, web site, LinkedIn, etc.)
Make yourself findable online
Share it with others
“Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the
business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the
importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies:
Me Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be
head marketer for the brand called You.” – Tom Peters, Fast
Company, 1997.
Putting Yourself Out There: Presenting
and Writing
•Start small
•Start local
•Find collaborators
•Do it for fun
•Try productivity tools/apps
•Hone your craft
•Share your work
Job Flexibility: Possibility or Myth?
Types of flexible work:
Compressed work week
Part-time
Flextime
Telecommuting
Job sharing
70% of American
workers are either “not
engaged,” or “actively
disengaged.”
State of the American Workplace Report, 2012. Gallup measures employee
engagement based on workers’ responses to its Q12 survey, which consists of 12
actionable workplace elements with proven links to performance outcomes.
Download the report.
Engagement Strategies
Employees are most engaged when they have the opportunity to
do what they do best every day.
Engagement is connected to having a strong sense of what their organization stands for.
To increase retention among Millennials (the most likely to job-hop),
provide plenty of opportunities to learn and grow.
It's not enough to put the right people in the right jobs -- we must
invest in people's talents to optimize their performance.
Create a culture of well-being.
Allow for flexibility (if possible). Remote workers are slightly more
engaged than those who work on-site.
State of the American Workplace Report. Gallup
Alternative Jobs: The Nontraditional
Path
When looking for jobs: Keep an open mind and cast a
wide net.
“I have long contended that a
room full of books is simply a closet
but that an empty room with a
librarian in it is a library.” – R. David
Lankes, Atlas of New Librarianship.
Keeping Up: Following Technology and
Trends
Start a monthly meeting with colleagues to share and learn
about technology.
Create a technology sandbox, schedule play time in a lab.
Become an app junkie. Experiment with new and (preferably)
free apps for your mobile devices and see which ones make
your life easier.
Volunteer to take the lead on a new project that will throw you
into the realm of new technology. Accountability = motivation.
Use social media tools to keep informed of what’s happening in
the profession (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
Share Your Work
document and record your process
scoop up scraps and residue and shape
them into something interesting
share something small every day
use social media sites to share updates
secure your own online space (register a
domain name)
don't think self-promotion, think self-
invention
- Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!
Questions?
- Austin Kleon
Thank you!
Susanne Markgren
Digital Services Librarian, Purchase College, SUNY
http://smarkgren.wordpress.com
http://librarycareerpeople.com
@smarkgren
@libcareerpeople
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