Tips, Tricks & Tools for the New Information Professional
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This document provides tips for new information professionals to develop their career strategies and online presence. It recommends doing a self-assessment including strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Then to create and implement a 1-2 year career strategy plan. It also suggests developing a professional brand and online presence through blogs, social media, conferences and publishing. Maintaining an up-to-date resume and getting involved in professional associations are also recommended.
Tips, Tricks & Tools for the New Information Professional
- 1. Tips, Tricks, and Tools for the New Information Professional Lisa Chow | Sandra Sajonas April 15, 2011 SLA@Pratt Skill Share Fair http://bit.ly/peopleinteract
- 2. Career Strategy Planning 1. Self Assessment SWOT Goals - 1, 2, 5 year goals 2. Create Career Strategy Plan 3. Implement Career Strategy Plan
- 3. People Professional Brand Online Presence
- 4. Find a mentor or two Find colleagues to share & bounce off ideas Get to know your fellow librarians/students
- 5. Find opportunities to publish and present
- 6. SlideShare
- 7. Update your resume regularly Have a web presence
- 8. Blogs: Blogger and Wordpress
- 11. Google Sites
- 12. Portfolio on Google Sites
- 13. Apply to various library programs & initiatives Get involved with associations & groups
- 14. Attend cheap/free local librarian events Attend national & local conferences
- 16. Keep up with library land (listservs, blogs, RSS, Google Alerts check library association sites regularly)
- 18. Propose ideas, start projects, see what happens
- 19. Going beyond your job title Being creative with your name tag
- 20. Google Docs
- 21. Google Calendar
- 22. Google Picassa
- 23. PBWorks
- 24. Google Analytics
- 25. http://bit.ly/peopleinteract Email: [email protected] People Interact ~ Thinking and acting outside the box