My interview with success story Megan Naomi: How did you find your current job? Megan: While interning with a federal agency under the Student Temporary Employment Program (STEP) I was strongly encouraged to pursue the Presidential Management Fellowship Program ( http://pmf.gov), a leadership development program that recruits advanced degree candidates to the federal government. During…
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Ashley Wilson …In Six
My interview with success story Ashley Naomi: How did you find your current job? Ashley: By scouring city and county websites every day for nearly six months. I made a list of all the websites that had relevant jobs and blocked out time each day to check out if anything new had been posted. Naomi:…
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Kate Gray …In Six
My interview with success story Kate Naomi: How did you find your current job? Kate: I have been looking at INALJ’s daily digest every day for about six months, and also added several New England library job boards to my RSS feed. I’m not sure whether I found the it in INALJ or the Mass…
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Nicole Fonsh …In Six
My interview with success story Nicole Naomi: How did you find your current job? Nicole: I networked like crazy! I had a feeling I wanted to get into development research so I reached out to other librarians I knew who were doing the same type of work. However, I also tried to be creative about…
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Sarah Barriage …In Six
My interview with success story Sarah Naomi: How did you find your current job? Sarah: Throughout my job search I had been checking a number of sites, including LibraryJobs.ca, University of Toronto’s iSchool Job Site, and the University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Information and Media Studies employment resources page. I found the posting for…
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Sarah Schlageck …In Six
My interview with success story Sarah Naomi: How did you find your current job? Sarah: My Mom mentioned it to me first. I ignored her until I saw it in the INALJ daily digest and thought it looked interesting. I applied for it and received a phone interview. After that they asked me to come…
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Marsha Taichman …In Six
My interview with success story Marsha Naomi: How did you find your current job? Marsha: I found my current job via the Partnership listserv, which usually focuses on Canadian job sites, but occasionally advertises jobs in the US. A few of my friends sent the job posting to me thinking it would be a good…
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Liz Koehler …In Six
My interview with success story Liz Naomi: How did you find your current job? Liz: The posting for my current job was sent out through my library school listserv in February of my final semester. It landed in my lap–I had barely begun my job search at that point. Naomi: Favorite library you have been…
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Tammy Ivins …In Six
My interview with success story Tammy Naomi: How did you find your current job? Tammy: I believe that I found the job posting on libgig.com, pulled from ALA. I did not know anyone affiliated with or anything about Francis Marion, but (after researching it) the university sounded like a great fit. The head of reference…
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Emily Stephens …In Six
My interview with success story Emily Naomi: How did you find your current job? Emily: I found my job as a Gensler Knowledge Support Specialist by setting up an email feed from Indeed.com that sent me any job post in my area that included the word “library.” The Gensler job description mentioned that a Library…
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Veg
In an effort to turn over a more prolific leaf this May I decided to spend the last evening of April vegging out. I watched the first four episodes of Game of Thrones season one and didn’t touch the internet (iPhone doesn’t count right?) Now…May!
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Dina Herbert …In Six
My interview with success story Dina! Naomi: How did you find your current job? Dina: I found my job the old fashioned way – my mother told me to email a friend of hers who had a friend in the DC area who’s sister was a librarian (seriously). Basically, I sent a networking email to…
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April Roundup
This month has been fantastic! Forty-seven fans found jobs which is up from sixteen last April. In April 2011 the daily INALJ digest was around 66 pages long. Now it often 200+ pages by Friday. I love looking back and hope we continue to grow in leaps and bounds. It is hard working finding job…
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Maria M. Bonet …In Six
My interview with INALJ success story Maria Naomi: How did you find your current job? Maria: While I had been looking through the LAC Group’s job adverts for a while, I actually saw the job I was hired for–a contract with the Library of Congress as a Library Assistant or Library Materials Handler–in the INALJ…
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Seeking nominations
I am interested in reaching out to new people to interview for INALJ. If you know of anyone who has been successful in finding a job, or a faculty ember that has been supportive or even a blogger whose site you find helpful send me an email at ineedalibraryjob@gmail.com with a brief explanation of who…
Interviews
Andy Woodworth …In Six
Reposting from 1/10/12 My interview with the fabulous blogger Andy Woodworth of Agnostic, Maybe . Naomi: What is your dream job and why? Andy: If I could do my blog as a full time job, I’d be ecstatic. I enjoy the conversations around these issues as well as the analysis and reactions. It would be…
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Jennifer Randles …In Six
My interview with success story Jennifer Naomi: How did you find your current job? Jennifer: My new position is actually where I worked as a graduate student assistant while earning my MSIS degree. One of the supervisors left her position to pursue another career, and I applied for it. I was thrilled that the position…
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Dee Krasnansky …In Six
My interview with success story Dee Naomi: How did you find my current job? Dee: Answered ad in local paper Naomi: Favorite library? Dee: Finksburg Library in Carroll County. It offers lots of parking, plenty of computers with no problem about asking for extra time. Most importantly, the staff is knowledgeable, friendly and eager to…
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Something I am Working On: Job Hunting Strategies
Over at the INALJ LinkedIn Group I started a discussion on jobs with no applicants that has morphed into a brainstorming session on strategies in the job hunt, specifically for those who are able to relocate. Join us online with any suggestions and tips, but please read through the discussion first to avoid duplications and…
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Maureen Carroll …In Six
My interview with success story Maureen Naomi: How did you find your current job? Maureen: I found my current job through Indeed.com, which is a site that has served me well for both my first job in a private corporation to my current job in a public school. Naomi: Favorite library you have been to?…
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Housed!
So the closing on our house this week is distracting me in my free time. Apologies for the light amount of postings here on INALJ.com and I plan on having more interviews this week. 🙂 Happy job hunting! The daily jobs email is on schedule 🙂
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Monday Daily Digest- will be late
Hi All, I am (fingers crossed) closing on a house tomorrow (4/16) morning so the daily jobs digest might be out late in the evening 🙂 Drove out to Assateague and Ocean City today and up to Rehoboth Beach. Will attach a photo at some point. Happy job hunting all!
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Back in the Saddle
Hi Everyone, I am hoping to be back to full functioning by Tuesday. I hope to be adding more articles as well as the fabulous In Six interviews. This has been a very busy few weeks but I look forward to being back in the swing of things 🙂
Interviews
Brian Mathews …In Six
My interview with Brian Matthews, the Ubiquitous Librarian Naomi: What is your dream job and why? Brian: My “dream” job is to be the founder and CEO of a wildly successful startup company. I’m addicted to entrepreneurialism. I love meeting, brainstorming and hanging out with innovators and creative types. I love watching ideas grow into…
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Kristen Kennedy …In Six
My interview with success story Kristen Naomi: How did you find your current job? Kristen: I interned at the ACLU in my last semester of library school and really enjoyed it, but they had no plans to hire more staff in the near future. Then a few months after I graduated, a posting came up…