Career Options

career development workshop

U of T Faculty of Information
Isidora Petrovic, Careers Officer

iCareer - Career Development Series

Workshops
Professional Communication
Career options
How to network
Resumes & CVs
Cover letters
Job Interviews
LinkedIn & portfolio
http://current.ischool.utoronto.ca/career-services

Agenda

MI & MMSt Careers

Career development process
Self-assessment
Career options
Career plan
Final tips

Plenty of career options for MI & MMSt grads

Archivist
Information Systems Analyst
Information Architect
KM Specialist
Youth Services Librarian
Museum Collection Specialist
Director of eLearning
Research Project Manager
User Experience Designer
Academic Librarian

Museum Planning Advisor

Digitization Coordinator
Technical Writer
Health Informatics Expert
Ethnographer
Web Developer
Security Specialist
Database Analyst
Information Services Manager
Collections Librarian
Etc.

Arts, culture, business, finance, education, health, realty,

religion, sciences, sport

Career Development Process

Career development process is unique to you
Key steps:
1. Self-assessment
2. Career options
3. Career action plan

Why ?
Not sure what is required
Not clear which careers best fit your personality
Certain about your skills and want to be successful

I. Self-Assessment

Tests: MBTI, STRONG UofT Career Centre

3 key elements

Interests
All activities pattern of interests

Values & beliefs

Plus: personality, environment

Your skills
Strengths and weaknesses

II. Career Options: Research What?

Career field

Organizations

Job titles

Job duties

Requirements: education, experience,

competencies

Salary

Trends

II. Career Options: Research Example

Career field: Knowledge Management

Organizations: PwC

Job titles: Senior Manager, Knowledge

Management User Experience

Job duties: see handout

Requirements: see handout

Salary: association/surveys, Glassdoor, PayScale

Trends: associations, conferences, books, articles,

talk to professionals/Professors

II. Career Options: Research How?

Read books, articles, blogs

Search company websites
Analyze job ads
Research/join social networks (e.g. LinkedIn)
Find a mentor
Organize informational interviews
Go for job shadowing
Research/join professional associations
Attend conferences & events
Find volunteering opportunities

Data Scientist:

The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century Harvard Business Review

The question facing every company today, every startup,

every non-profit, every project site that wants to attract a
community, is how to use data effectively not just their
own data, but all the data thats available and relevant. Using
data effectively requires something different from traditional
statistics, where actuaries in business suits perform arcane
but fairly well-defined kinds of analysis. What differentiates
data science from statistics is that data science is a holistic
approach. Were increasingly finding data in the wild, and data
scientists are involved with gathering data, massaging it into a
tractable form, making it tell its story, and presenting that
story to others.
Mike Loukides, OReilly Media Inc. , 2010

Career Options: Requirements

Identify required competencies
Competencies are the knowledge, skills
and abilities required to be successful in a
job.

Competencies - Examples
Professional competencies for Special Librarians

Relate to the special librarians knowledge in the areas of

information resources, information access, technology,
management, and research and the ability to use these
areas of knowledge as basis for providing library and
information services

Personal competencies for Special Librarians

Represent a set of skills, attitudes, and values that enable

librarians to work efficiently; be good communicators; focus
on continuing learning throughout their careers;
demonstrate the value-added nature of their contributions;
and survive in the new world of work

(Competencies for Special Librarians of the 21st Century, SLA, 1997)

Competencies for Information Professionals of the 21st Century,

SLA

Core Competencies for 21st Century Librarians, CARL ABRC

ICOM Curricula Guidelines for Museum Professional

Development

Knowledge Management Competencies

SLA 2010 Conference

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlxcVR0c6Sk&feature=related

External

Internal

III.Career Action Plan SWAT analysis

III.Career Action Plan Project plan

Goals

Strategies

Tactics

Final Tips
Know yourself
Do research
Make a career plan
Take action
Be visible
Be professionally engaged