ALA 2010 Annual Conference Program and Exhibit Directory

esume or your interview preparation is sabotaging
your job search efforts!
Presenter:Vicki Burger, Asst. Director Library
Personnel, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
SUNDAY, JUNE 27
9:30 - 11:00a.m.
Improving Your Odds:
Career-Changing and Job-Hunting
Strategies
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Are you planning a job change? Anticipating layoffs
at your library? Looking for your first library
position? Been in the job market for a while?
Trying to help your library users? Learn practical
tips about how to deal with job-hunting in a
depressed economy. Topics include common career
and job-hunting mistakes, creating a better resume,
financial realities, re-negotiating the social
contract, when not to use a resume, why
job-hunting is a sales campaign, why networking
still works in an electronic age, the importance of
lifelong learning inside and outside of a classroom,
and why you need a team.