Aimed at professionals within Library and Information Services (LIS), this book is about rethinking your career in a refreshing and systematic way to take into account your professional and personal goals. The book aims to provide students and information and library professionals (at all levels) tools and practical steps to making changes in their career. This book is not about 'how to get a job'; it is much more than that. At the heart of the book is a methodology called 'personal strategic planning'. This methodology ...
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Aimed at professionals within Library and Information Services (LIS), this book is about rethinking your career in a refreshing and systematic way to take into account your professional and personal goals. The book aims to provide students and information and library professionals (at all levels) tools and practical steps to making changes in their career. This book is not about 'how to get a job'; it is much more than that. At the heart of the book is a methodology called 'personal strategic planning'. This methodology allows a person to work out a baseline for what is important to them in a career and provide techniques and tools for moving forwards and realising your goals. This book is written in a refreshing manner and readily discusses what to do when things go wrong and how to make an individual feel that they are in charge of their career.It is written in accessible style from an experienced practitioner's point of view. It draws on the author's experience of moving between different LIS sectors having worked in the private and public sector. It draws on the author's experience of successfully moving and adapting skills from a career in another industry sector. It provides a methodology and a set of workable tools to discover what you want from your career, steps in moving forward and how to re-assess yourself on a regular basis.
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