What a fantastic month it has been! Sixty fans found jobs which is up from twenty-two last July and twenty more than in June of this year. In July 2011 the daily INALJ digest was around 81 pages long. Now it often 200+ pages by Friday. Some fast stats for July 2012: over 10,200 Tweets…
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Interviews, Success Stories
Jennifer Jacobsen-Wood …In Six
My interview with INALJ success story, Jennifer Naomi: How did you find your current job? Jennifer: I am lucky enough to have two library jobs. One is at my local, small, rural library, which I basically begged for, despite it being a shelving position. I found this position via networking. I knew both the previous…
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Jess Wallis …In Six
My interview with success story, Jess Naomi: How did you find your current job? Jess: I found it on the Simmons College GSLIS JobLine. I had been searching very seriously for several months, and unsuccessfully applying to a lot of public libraries before I decided to branch out and apply for a special library job.…
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June Roundup
This month has been incredible! Thirty-nine fans found jobs which is up from twenty-four last June. In June 2011 the daily INALJ digest was around 76 pages long. Now it often 200+ pages by Friday. Some fast stats for June 2012: 10,000 Tweets milestone reached 2,071 Twitter followers 4,528 Facebook fans 1,745 LinkedIn group members…
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Shannon Schinagl …In Six
My interview with success story Shannon Naomi: How did you find your current job? Shannon: Using the INALJ digest, I checked each of the New England states each week. When an opening came up, I applied. I have to say that even though it was expensive, I did offer to fly out from Seattle to…
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Reed David …In Six
My interview with success story Reed Naomi: How did you find your current job? Reed: I first heard about it from an e-mail sent to the Music Library Association’s listserv. It was posted on INALJ as well. Naomi: Favorite library you have been to? Reed: My favorite libraries include the Library of Congress (although the…
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Tyler Dzuba …In Six
My interview with success story Tyler Naomi: How did you find your current job? Tyler: While I was in library school, I worked as a graduate assistant at UNC’s Brauer Math/Physics Library. I developed really fantastic rapport with my supervisor, Zari Kamarei, during that time. She left to be the Head of Science and Engineering…
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May Roundup
This month has been fantastic! Fifty-six fans found jobs which is up from fifteen last May. In May 2011 the daily INALJ digest was around 67 pages long. Now it often 180+ 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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Alicia Schofield …In Six
My interview with success story Alicia Naomi: How did you find your current job? Alicia: I found the job posting through a job listserv that the U of I’s library school hosts. Naomi: Favorite library you have been to? Alicia: The closed stacks of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. Naomi: Favorite book? Alicia: This month…
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Hannah Winkler …In Six
My interview with success story Hannah Naomi: How did you find your current job? Hannah: Originally, several friends forwarded me the job advertisement knowing that it would be exactly what I was looking for. (And it was!) But it was also posted on GEONET listserv, ALA joblist, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. I was…
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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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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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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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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…
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AnnMarie Hurtado …In Six
My interview with INALJ success story AnnMarie Naomi: How did you find your current job? AnnMarie: I actually found my new job at Pasadena using INALJ! I have used your listserv for about a year when it was recommended to me by a librarian friend who I knew from LISSTEN (a student organization I was…
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March Roundup
This month has been fantastic! Forty-one fans found jobs which is up from eight last March. March 25, 2011 I stopped calling the daily email the LJDD (Library Job Daily Digest) and started calling it INALJ (I Need A Library Job) and it was 101 pages long Now it is INALJ and over 150 pages…
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Ben Neal …In Six
My interview with success story Ben Naomi: How did you find your current job? Ben: I found the job posting on the Northeast Tennessee Library Network. Within a few hours of sending in my resume and cover letter, they had contacted me for an interview for the next week. The day after I interviewed I…
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February Roundup
This month has been fantastic! Thirty fans found jobs which is up from seven last February. Last February I was calling the daily email the LJDD (Library Job Daily Digest) and INA LJ (I Need A Library Job) and it was 34 pages long Now it is INALJ and over 150 pages long and often…
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On Volunteering
First I just want to say a HUGE thanks to my volunteers both past and present! It is amazing what a little bit of coordination and a whole lot of volunteers can do. INALJ, the daily jobs digest, is much more robust than even a few short months ago due in no small part to…
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Weekend Warrior
One habit I have tried to improve at and cultivate is using my weekends more wisely. For me one of my goals is every weekend to add interviews and articles to INALJ.com so that everything rolls out seamlessly throughout the week. Back when I was hunting for a job I made myself a pact that…
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Do you have any questions for us?
One of the most important parts of an interview comes at the end. Most committees you interview with will ask “do you have any questions for us” and how you answer can make a difference. There is also a discussion going on on LinkedIn on this topic here: INALJ LinkedIn page My tips are: Always…