Comments on: Library Job Searching in a Tough Economy

By: afroz alam

afroz alam — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:28:35 +0000

sir please

By: Katy

Katy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:15:00 +0000

Kyle,

Great advice, and thanks so much for sharing. Let the hunt begin.

By: Graeme Williams

Graeme Williams — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:58:08 +0000

I also make use of a couple of sites that collect opportunities by searching the web for you, including both job sites and employer sites. I’ve found indeed.com and simplyhired.com very useful in my job search — although I’m not a librarian, and your mileage may vary.

Both Indeed and SimplyHired will return results in an RSS feed, or if you register, send you email alerts.

I have a handful of sites that send me email alerts every day, so checking those emails is more or less the first thing I do in the morning.

By: Deepal

Deepal — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:07:16 +0000

Best of luck

By: Georaj

Georaj — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:56:04 +0000

In finding library jobs librarycrossing.com is a good source because it only shows you jobs from employer websites and every other job board out there. The jobs listed include library assistant jobs, public & school library jobs and services library jobs.This is a good way to track down jobs because these jobs are often not advertised. Know more by visiting http://www.librarycrossing.com

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:55:29 +0000

@Lee

I’m on LinkedIn but haven’t really searched for a job there – I’ve only passively posted my information. I should give it the good ol’ college try and attempt to make some real connections on it.

Good points on networking the traditional way. I definitely need to do more of this. I guess this is where professional conferences come into play and local consortium meetings.

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@Susan

Best of luck to you too!

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@Kelly

If you do some more work with this list be sure to report back and add to the comments or ask Michael to do a guest post.

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@Wendy

Thanks for stopping by. Best of luck to you as well!

By: Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:25:20 +0000

Thanks for the great resources! I too am a recent LIS grad, what a time to be looking!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:18:05 +0000

Kyle, if your guess was I was going for a pl job in IL, then my list was pretty successful, eh?
It was actually quite useful. I think a lot of jobs don’t end up in the bigger search engines, and even if a lot of the jobs aren’t of interest from many of the individual libraries, reading the job descriptions gave me a huge advantage in writing a resume, cover letter, and interviewing. I could talk easily about trends and so forth.

Please use it! I’m going to beef it up now that I do have a job and don’t have to use stress as my motivation … now it’s about making sure other good people get a job, too!

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:00:56 +0000

Thanks for this Kyle. I try to keep up with all the online job search tools and these will certainly add to my coverage. Good luck with the job-hunting.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:32:06 +0000

Solid, good advice here. Finding work is a 40-hour a week job right now -and especially so when you’re not working.

I’d add LinkedIn networking and good old fashioned physical, social networking.

One quick note: do not blindly try to get linkedin to someone or send an impersonal, generic “I’d like to add you to my network”. In the linkedin circles this is not thought highly of for so many reasons.

Every job, outside of the getting into the US Air Force, I found through a mentor or loose contact -kinda like a six degrees thing to me.

My general advice in regards to every position you apply for: research the company. And if an organization you want to work for isn’t hiring, interview them. I’ve made some excellent contacts, who did not hire me, but instead passed my name along to someone who was hiring.

Great post Kyle and that is one heck-of-a set of links Kelly: suuuuu-weeet tagging.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:28:22 +0000

Now that is an impressive list! Especially for Illinois and public library jobs. Did the list help you at all?

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:21:22 +0000

I just went through 6 months of the job search before landing one, and during that time, I put together a HUGE list of resources on a delicious account. It’s certainly not complete, but with the help of a few eager people, I could make this larger and more inclusive. It reflects my interests, mostly, but will definitely be useful to many. I hope it helps!

delicious.com/libraryjoblinks.

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