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Transferable Skills: Identifying and Marketing Your Unique Value to Non-LIS Employers
- 1. Kim Dority & Scott Brown
SLA Rocky Mountain Chapter
November 15, 2012
© 2012 Kim Dority & Scott Brown 1
- 2. Where are we going today?
Today we’ll focus on:
Identifying your skills that transfer into multiple
career opportunities
Translating those skills into non-LIS language
Finding opportunities (i.e., job openings) for
which those skills are appropriate
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- 3. Last time: Roles & Skills
What are all of your qualities and roles?
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- 4. Exercise: Roles, qualities & skills
What are the details of those skills?
Volunteer
Event planning
Planned 14 continuing education meetings over an entire year
for 200-member regional association, bringing in revenue to
the association treasury
Recruited, scheduled and coordinated speakers for each event
Sought and secured funding from local, national and
international vendors for events
Managed registration and advertising for events
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How could your skills combine?
LIS + Nursing
Medical librarian
Patient advocate
And…..
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• Competitive intelligence specialist for bioinformatics,
medical research, pharmaceutical company
• Information director for clinical research/academic
health center
• Records manager for managed healthcare company
• Content developer for consumer health website
• Business analyst, medical industry venture capital
group
• Librarian for healthcare-related professional
organization
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• Research-guide developer for consumer health topics
• Current-awareness research for clinics, doctors,
patients
• Consumer health specialist for public library
• Grant-writer, prospect researcher for community
health organization
• Teacher of medical-research course for nursing
program
© 2012 Kim Dority & Scott Brown
- 8. Learning more…about invisible jobs
Invisible LIS jobs are sometimes tough to
“unearth,” but more and more LIS
professionals are ending up in these roles
Embedded librarianship
Embedded/integrated information professionals
What are these positions called?
Sample keywords and job titles
“Off the beaten track” sources
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- 9. Invisible jobs – where do I look?
A few examples
“Off the beaten track”
EDUCAUSE: http://jobs.educause.edu/jobs
Non-profit:
http://www.coloradononprofits.org/career-
center/nonprofit-jobs
http://www.redcross.org/about-us/careers
Employer sites: http://nikeinc.com/pages/careers
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- 10. Invisible jobs – where do I look?
A few examples
Local
Oregon: http://www.oregonlive.com/jobs/
Twitter lists
https://twitter.com/scbrown5/infojobs
http://listorious.com
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- 13. Translating LIS language
LIS-Wording Non-LIS Wording
Reference Information needs assessment
Research (possibly research and
analysis)
Customer service
(see also Research)
Cataloging Information analysis
Metadata assignment
Records management / access and
retrieval
Taxonomy-building
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- 14. Translating LIS language
LIS-Wording Non-LIS Wording
Acquisitions Contract negotiation/management
Content licensing
Purchasing management
Vendor relations
Research Research analysis and synthesis
Business or data analysis
Market research
Product development support
Competitive intelligence
Donor/prospect research
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- 15. What do you do?
Contrast: Cataloger
“I know MARC and XML, and I’ve cataloged books,
videos, periodicals, and other media in a public
library.”
“I make sure important information is findable by
making it as accessible as possible through tagging
and cataloging quickly and efficiently.”
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- 16. What do you do?
Contrast: Cataloger
“I know MARC and XML, and I’ve cataloged books,
videos, periodicals, and other media in a public
library.”
> This one says: “Zzzzzzzzz….”
“I make sure important information is findable by
making it as accessible as possible through tagging
and cataloging quickly and efficiently.” >This one
says, “I kick ass!”
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- 17. Back to your skills - Keywords
Look for the jobs you want and synch them up
Job postings
Resume/LinkedIn
Targeted to one job
Targeted to the types of jobs you want
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- 18. Keywords
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- 19. Keywords
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- 20. Keywords
In LinkedIn, use them in:
Summary
Specialties
Experience descriptions
Volunteer work
Education
Interests
Skills (if they match up with LinkedIn skills)
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- 22. Watch for words that hide specifics
Trained
Taught or instructed
Assisted
Provided
Participated in
Oversaw
Worked with
Served (on a board or committee)
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- 23. Multiple “identities” in social media
LinkedIn – what do I do if I’m transitioning, or combining
multiple “lives”?
Write about your experience and skills more generically –
more skills-based than industry-based
It’s possible to create more than one LinkedIn account, and
this may be a best option – but consider those searching for
your profile, and how to manage in the future
You may not have a perfect solution – and so maybe
blogging or Twitter may be a better option
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- 24. Pop quiz: key take-aways?
Your information skills can be broadly applied
(transferred) across a multitude of job
opportunities and industries
To identify your strongest (or most rewarding)
transferable skills, consider all the aspects of
current and previous roles, both professional and
personal
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- 25. Key take-aways (con’t)
Then research potential areas of interest to see what
words are used to describe your “LIS” skills – this will
also help you discover those invisible jobs
Also - you may have developed and mastered
additional transferable skills that have nothing to do
with your LIS knowledge/expertise – don’t hesitate to
embrace these opportunities as well
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Upcoming webinars
• So Tell Me About Yourself: Personal and Professional
Branding for LIS Students and Professionals, December 20,
2012, 2pm ET
Sign up at http://rockymountain.sla.org/tag/virtual-
programs/
© 2012 Kim Dority & Scott Brown