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Career Transitions for Librarians : 5 Questions with Ray Pun and Davis Erin Anderson [INALJ]

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June 13, 2016

by Naomi House, MLIS

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In this post, I interviewed the co-editors of Career Transitions for Librarians and asked them 5 questions about the book!

 

  1. Tell us about yourselves and your new book, Career Transitions for Librarians: Proven Strategies for Moving to Another Type of Library !

Ray Pun: Thanks for inviting us to speak about our new book! We are excited to be sharing what we think would be helpful to INALJ readers!

So I’m the first year student success librarian in Fresno State in California. I thought about this project in 2014 when I was writing a blog post for ACRL on career transitions. At that time I made a move from NYPL to NYU Shanghai and I thought this was an interesting transition; many colleagues asked how I did it and I tried outlining it in the blog with some tips. I started speaking to more and more library professionals and seeing how many used to work in corporate, public, school and academic libraries and I thought this would be a great story to tell. There has not been much literature about career transitions in our field and it’s time there should be one!

 

Davis: I work for a wonderful non-profit that’s a hub for librarians, archivists, and museums where we focus on the nexus all kinds of different library types. Read more…

 

The 1 Thing You Need to Achieve Work-Life Balance by Lolly Daskal

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There is a secret to work-life balance, but you’re not going to like it.
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There is always lots of talk about work-life balance and how to achieve it, but the real truth falls outside most of those discussions.

Jack Welch, renowned former CEO of General Electric, famously stated, “There is no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.”

At the time his critics slammed him and accused him of being detached, but there was deep insight in what he was saying.

As a leadership coach, I often hear from clients asking me about work-life balance and how to make it happen. But trying to create balance simply isn’t working.

Technology means that we’re all available 24/7. And, because everyone demands instant gratification and instant connectivity, there are no boundaries, no breaks, no time for the balance we crave.

But there’s an alternative to the nonstop work cycle. And isn’t found in balance but in integration.

Balance is achieved when things become steady, and we know that life and business are anything but steady–they are in a constant state of motion.

Everything we do, if we want to do it well, is done with an integration of parts that create synergy. So instead of work-life balance, let’s start working toward work-life integration.

Work-life integration starts with analyzing the contradictions. Here are some examples to help you get started in making work-life integration work for you.

1. We have to work, but we have also have to learn to take time off.

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How to Confront Conflict in the Workplace by Dennis McCafferty

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posted 11-16-2015

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How to confront conflict in the workplace: CIOs and other managers too often focus on the personalities involved with a dispute instead of root causes, research shows.

When problems are dismissed or ignored, they fester and grow into bigger problems.

– See more at: http://www.cioinsight.com/it-management/careers/slideshows/how-to-confront-conflict-in-the-workplace.html#sthash.LkBUUOvQ.dpuf

 

It’s difficult to manage a conflict-free office: Strained relationships among employees account for no less than three out of five difficulties within organizations, research shows. Meanwhile, 43% of non-management workers feel that their bosses do not deal with conflict as well as they should. In covering this topic, the recent book, The Essential Workplace Conflict Handbook: A Quick and Handy Resource for Any Manager, Team Leader, HR Professional, or Anyone Who Wants to Resolve Disputes and Increase Productivity (Career Press/available now), defines the common sources of morale-sapping acrimony while providing best practices in addressing these disputes. Authors Barbara Mitchell and Cornelia Gamlem reveal that CIOs and other managers too often focus on the personalities involved with a situation instead of root causes. They also must understand that their personal approach in dealing with an issue weighs greatly in “making it go away”—or creating even larger problems. The following “conflict myths” and best practices are adapted from the book. Mitchell and Gamlem are HR consultants and co-authors of The Big Book of HR. – See more at: http://www.cioinsight.com/it-management/careers/slideshows/how-to-confront-conflict-in-the-workplace.html#sthash.LkBUUOvQ.dpuf

How To List Online Courses On Your Resume The Right Way (Because Yes, There Is A Wrong Way)

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So you’ve been taking some online courses. You’ve learned a ton, and you’ve even been using your new skills at work or to develop a side project.

But now you’re contemplating a career move and wondering how (and even whether) to include your continuing education on your resume. You’re right to approach this task thoughtfully. Online courses are still relatively new, recruiters can be skeptical and in certain cases, listing your online education can actually make your resume worse.

I spoke to several recruiters and hiring managers to gather insight on what they think when they see online courses listed on candidates’ resumes. So, whether you aced your marketing MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), killed it in coding bootcamp, or taught yourself graphic design, here are some of their tips on how to tell that story in your application:

1. Put Them In Their Proper Place

Across the board, the hiring managers and recruiters I spoke with agreed that MOOCs and other online courses can help make the case that you can do the job. However, they also think these classes shouldn’t be the star of the show. As Anne Lewis, the Director of Sales and Recruitment for Betts Recruiting, a firm specializing in recruitment for technology companies, told me, “In general, MOOCs can help to make candidate profiles stronger, especially junior candidates who don’t have as much experience.” Read more…

Skills college grads still need to learn to impress hiring managers

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Julie Bort May 18, 2016
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Dear college grads, the good news is that new research suggests you are reasonably well prepared with the skills you need to land a great job and be successful in the workforce.

But there’s a few surprising skills that you have whiffed.

So says a massive survey of almost 64,000 hiring managers and over 14,000 college grads conducted by compensation software company PayScale.

A whopping 60% of managers feel critical thinking/problem solving is a skill lacking among the most recent college graduates. That’s the ability to come up with solutions to problems instead of being told what to do. Read more…