10 Tips to Beat Job Search Burn Out. The weather's heating up, but are your job hunting efforts cooling off?
Fight the urge to abandon your search—stay on track and refresh your motivation with these tips: 1. Do Something You're Awesome At One of the best ways to right burn out is to feel A. successful, and B. energized. This is most easily and effectively achieved by doing something you enjoy, and you kind of rule at. 2. If your goal is simply to get a job offer, you don't have a lot of control over your success. 3. Burn out, by definition, means feeling tired and unmotivated. 4. Job hunting is a rejection game. If you keep in touch with others who are also on the hunt, you can compare notes on what's working, what's not working, and best of all, who's getting rejected--because no matter how much it can feel that way, it's not just happening to you. 5.
Show up and be smart at Attempting Elegance. Or, Jenica’s Guide To Interviewing For An Academic Job.
I’m in one of our now-rare windows between the hiring cycles — offer has been made and accepted on one, and I’m writing the description on another — that have become our norm in this era of retirements and job mobility. So in this brief moment while I have no conflicts of interest, let me share my next bundle of thoughts on academic library jobhunting. Also, it only seems fair to tell you that the soundtrack to writing this post is Cake’s Short Skirt, Long Jacket, and that I’m going to be judgmental again. (We should all be so lucky as to have jobs where it’s our job to be judgmental.) Brace yourself. 1. 2. About this Guide - Job Searching - Research Guides at Rutgers University. 6 Tips For Experienced Job Seekers Who Have Been Unemployed Long-Term. Facebook Profiles Can Help You Get a Job. According to a recently published study, Facebook profiles are good indicators of job performance.
A 10-minute review of a Facebook profile can give a hiring manager clues about your personality type and insights as to how you’ll fit into the company’s work (or not) and succeed on the job (or not). It’s no surprise, then, that more employers are reviewing Facebook profiles when screening potential new hires. The trick for job seekers is to make sure they’re presenting their best, most employable self on Facebook. In January, U.K. business psychology firm OPP reported that 56% of employers now review the Facebook profiles of job applicants. Employers see Facebook as a place where they can weed out candidates from their pool of thousands of resumes. A Jobvite study from 2011 found that 84% of job seekers had profiles on Facebook, and 63% of them were actively searching for jobs. (MORE: Your Facebook Profile Can Predict Your Job Performance) 1. (MORE: Get Ready for More Ads on Facebook) 2. Top 10 Ways to Get a Better Job.
So you want to be an academic librarian?: Part II. Continuing my previous post on what it is really like becoming an academic librarian, today’s post will follow up on the job search process and take you up to the point of starting your first professional job.
As I reflected on my last post, I thought of more information that some of you may find valuable soon as you begin to explore the jobs that are currently out there. I strongly suggest starting a preliminary job search now as you begin your time in SLIS. Why? Because it may help you narrow down a direction to take, and it will give you insight into how the market is faring. I started library school at a very unfortunate time. It will also help you become familiar with the types of positions, what is expected in them, and what qualifications are needed. Librarian status: One of the things that I immediately noticed when I started my job search was the vast array of classifications of librarians found in academia. “Tenure-track faculty” “Non-tenure track faculty” “Staff” References: So you want to be an academic librarian? After talking to Dr.
Kahn, and hearing about some of your discussion on my previous post about life as a new librarian, I thought I would add some more insight into academic libraries in particular. I think that while most are you are at least vaguely familiar with the process of becoming a librarian in general (i.e. in a public library), many of the nuances of academia are often forgotten in library school and the reality of what that environment is like comes as a shock when you first step out into the job market and then again when you enter that first professional job. I’m going to cover a few major points to take you from your time in library school, to the job search, to settling into your first job. Education: This is a tricky point, because the thing is, much of what you need to do to prepare for this career path has already been done (hopefully). Let me spell this out as simply as possible. What is a CV and why is it different from a resume?
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