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Your Successful Lis Career: Planning Your Career, Cvs, Interviews and Self-Promotion (Successful Lis Professional Series)

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This very practical book covers career planning and job searching in the British library environment. Much of the advice is applicable to anyone, but many of the tables point to British organizations, job postings, and other resources. The book focuses primarily on career planning and job hunting, and does not really cover "on the job" career management advice (ie, networking, interpersonal skills, etc).

The chapter titles are: 1. Scene setting: the challenges of today's employment market 2. Your master career plan or, Do you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince or princess? 3. Starting your career 4. Applying for a job 5. Your successful interview 6. Next steps in your career (includes moving to other jobs, etc) 7. Looking sideways ... and back (includes temp work, losing a job, etc) 8. Other considerations in career planning (includes returning after a break, goals, etc) Appendix 1. Typical questions on an application form Appendix 2. A possible CV for a library or information professional Appendix 3. Further reading Appendix 4. Other organizations cited