This statement, “I am underemployed,” I have been hearing quite a bit. Knowing that the only thing that you control in the process is you ask yourself, what do I need to do differently? Are you really underemployed because the job market is bad or is it because you can or won’t be flexible? Is…
Interviews, Success Stories
Lauren Linn …Success Story
My interview with success story, Lauren Naomi: How did you find your current job? Lauren: I worked in higher education prior to returning to school for my MSIS and always wanted to continue my professional career in that environment. After graduation from my program, I actively pursued positions in academic libraries but also monitored all…
Interviews, Success Stories
Benjamin Nanamaker …Success Story
My interview with success story, Benjamin Naomi: How did you find your current job? Benjamin: I can’t remember which of the countless number of job posting RSS feeds I found my current job advertised on, but I do remember where I found the bulk of them. Last summer, Jazmin Idakaar posted a link on her…
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Success Stories
682 fans have found jobs!!!!! Many have done interviews with INALJ.com giving tips, advice and their stories and you can read them all in my Success Stories section! See the full list of names as well 🙂 If you have found a job even if it wasn’t through INALJ.com let me know by emailing me…
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INALJ.com is One!
INALJ.com was launched a year ago as a webzine companion to the daily jobs digest. It has grown to host the INALJ Jobs Digest, interviews with great organizations and jobs success stories, as well as hosting links to all of INALJ’s communities on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. The past year at INALJ.com has been dynomite!…
Interviews, Success Stories
Rich Clegg …Success Story
My interview with success story, Rich Naomi: How did you find your current job? Rich: Although I used INALJ to apply to many positions, searching simplyhired.com was how I found my current position. The job description was posted in INALJ about a day after I found it searching SimplyHired. Naomi: Favorite library you have been…
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Sandy Update Two: All clear here!
Hi everyone, The good news for us is we never lost power! So thankful and the daily jobs digest will be out late afternoon. Thinking of you all! Hoping that you get power back on soon and that you are safe and sound! Cheers, Naomi
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Sandy Update One: from DC
Hi Everyone, The daily jobs went out as usual today! Yay!!! Who knows what tonight & tomorrow will bring here in DC (Hyattsville, MD specifically). If we can get the jobs out you know we will. Otherwise, hang tight, stay safe and apply for jobs using today’s INALJ jobs Daily Digest! If I lose power…
Interviews, Success Stories
Rosalyn Alleman …Success Story
My interview with success story, Rosalyn Naomi: How did you find your current job? Rosalyn : A former superior approached me earlier this year about taking on a customer service assessment and improvement project in the FMCSA. When I found out my contract at the NTL was ending September 30, I followed up on it, and was hired in October by Phase…
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INALJ & Sandy
Hi Everyone, Fingers crossed this storm, Sandy, won’t hit the metro DC area where I live with the force predicted. Fingers crossed we keep power! I will do all I can to keep INALJ going next week but if you do not get your digest/jobs you’ll at least know why. Stay safe everyone!
About INALJ
What Would You Say You Do Here? Inspire Hope!
The impetus behind INALJ (I Need a Library Job) was creating a jobs resource of all the library and information professional jobs I could find and distributing them to as many people as possible. But beyond that I wanted to inspire hope in job hunters who were struggling and show them that success was possible.…
Interviews, Success Stories
Jonathan Manton …Success Story
My interview with success story, Jonathan Naomi: How did you find your current job? Jonathan: – Code4lib jobs website (http://jobs.code4lib.org/) Naomi: Favorite library you have been to? Jonathan: – Difficult to pick one. It would be between the Bodleian Library in Oxford UK, Sterling Memorial Library at Yale, or Green Library at Stanford. Naomi: Favorite…
About INALJ
Advertise on INALJ.com
Advertise on INALJ.com The redesign rolls out on the one year anniversary of INALJ.com and I have a number of advertising opportunities available. For details please contact Naomi by email at: ineedalibraryjob@gmail.com PS: I am getting rid of Google Adsense soon to make room!
Interviews, Success Stories
Elena Gleason …Success Story
My interview with success story, Elena Naomi: How did you find your current job? Elena: The story of how I found my job is pretty ordinary, which just goes to show that you don’t need to have an “in” or a special approach in order to land a job. When I was job hunting, I…
Interviews, Success Stories
Jonathan Harrison …Success Story
My interview with success story, Jonathan Naomi: How did you find your current job? Jonathan: Scouring my current workplace’s job page. Already being a worker, even though I was quarter time, got me an interview which lead to me being hired. Naomi: Favorite library you have been to? Jonathan: I would say the downtown public…
Interviews, Success Stories
Scott Wiebensohn …Success Story
My interview with success story, Scott Naomi: How did you find your current job? Scott: I found my East St. Louis Community College Center Library Director position through a professional contact on LinkedIn and my Learning Resource Center Manager job at Sanford-Brown College – Collinsville through an old college roommate. Yes, I work a full-time…
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September Roundup (500,000 views!)
(reposted from 10/1/2012) What a great month it has been! We reached 500,000 page views on September 27th, before we were even 1 year old! Thirty-nine fans found jobs which is up from twenty-six last September. In September 2011 the daily INALJ digest was around 96 pages long. Now it often 200+ pages by Friday.…
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Change to Canada!
This is a long time coming but I finally split the Canadian section of the daily jobs digest up by provinces much like the US is already divided by states. Come check it out and happy job hunting 🙂
Articles
Happy 2nd Birthday INALJ!!!
Two years ago I was at home sitting at my computer working on who knows which one of my grad school classes and counting my lucky stars. Just one month previously I had been hired as a Reference Librarian for a government contractor working at a federal library. Naomi House, Librarian! I was only half…
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5 … 4 … 3 … 2 … 1
Happy Birthday INALJ! So this is what 2 looks like …
Interviews, Success Stories
Erin Wenz …In Six
My interview with INALJ volunteer and success story, Erin Naomi: How did you find your current job? Erin: I have been lucky to work with the wonderful people at my current employer for the past few years. When a professional librarian position opened up, I jumped at the chance to apply. Of course, the position was…
Interviews, Success Stories
Sarah Keller …In Six
My interview with success story, Sarah Naomi: How did you find your current job? Sarah: I found my current job through a combination of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners job listings http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/index.php and indeed.com. But I was going http://inalj.com a variety of RSS feeds, and going to various town/library/school websites to make sure I…
Interviews, Success Stories
Yandee Vazquez …In Six
My interview with success story and INALJ volunteer, Yandee! Naomi: How did you find your current job? Yandee: I found my current position through a hodgepodge of library listservs, job finding websites, and any random page of information-related jobs that I put together over the course of 2 years. Pouring over the list of jobs…
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Qraig’s Quest – Job De-“Script”-ion by Qraig de Groot
Qraig’s Quest – Job De-“Script”-ion by Qraig de Groot One of the biggest issues I have (and I do have a few) is that I’m not the most outgoing person. Many times, I’m downright shy –especially when it comes to talking about me and my career aspirations. And this has proven to be a serious…
Interviews, Success Stories
Lydia Redding …In Six
My interview with success story (and former classmate), Lydia Naomi: How did you find your current job? Lydia: I actually first saw the posting for my job on INALJ, which I check religiously. I typically start with the INALJ daily email from the day before to check the newest postings. Then I visit the Pennsylvania…