Book description
This book examines the difficulties confronting information professionals who, due to financial downturns, technological change, or personal crises, are forced to re-evaluate their career options. It is divided between a case study (based on the author’s own experiences) of career dislocation and eventual career renewal, and several sections that offer pragmatic advice on how to recover from job loss, conduct a skills assessment and develop a practical job search strategy. The author, with honesty, confronts the serious and sometimes troubling psychological and professional consequences of layoffs and job burnout. This book presents an overall positive outlook on personal growth and the opportunities our new information environment holds.- Provides the tools and resources that will help the reader decide on the best approach to re-start their career
- Presents first-hand experience about the anxiety, hard work, and excitement that go into career renewal
- Shines a light on the understanding of the various challenges that come with working in multiple library environments
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- About the author
- Chapter 1: Introduction to the parameters of career renewal
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Chapter 2: Career recovery: a case study of my personal job search
- Abstract:
- Off to California
- First you fail and then, guess what, you fail again
- Why not try something new? Re-envisioning the problem
- New approach, but the road is still bumpy and long
- Your social network is not always a source of support
- At last, I found a job
- Dos and don’ts: some lessons to be learned from my experience
- Observations to be drawn from my case: or some of the deadly sins of modern- day employment and job searching
- Chapter 3: No job, no way: librarians are often unprepared for voluntary and involuntary career changes
- Chapter 4: First you grieve: job loss, job stagnation, and job burnout in an age of transition
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Chapter 5: Re-envisioning your career: a new look at yourself and your skills
- Abstract:
- Who are you and what do you want to do with your career?
- The really big change
- Skills analysis: don’t sell yourself short
- The generalist, the hybrid, and the specialist: know yourself and consider how others may know you
- You are a person not just a category
- Outside work is not outside of the box
- Getting another perspective
- Chapter 6: Reframing your skills and search strategies: preparing for the job search and looking at your professional goals with a fresh and realistic approach
- Chapter 7: New résumé, new interview skills, but the road can still be bumpy: preparing for the job search and practicing the survival skills needed for success
- Chapter 8: You got your job! Hurray! But now what?
- Chapter 9: How can our professional organizations and graduate schools build a better professional support system?
- Chapter 10: Conclusions: recovery, reframing, and renewal are a matter of interpretation
- Bibliography
- Index
Product information
- Title: Recovery, Reframing, and Renewal
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2011
- Publisher(s): Chandos Publishing
- ISBN: 9781780632728
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