Starting out in your career
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Juanita Foster-Jones (Development Officer VLE, CILIP) and Jo Cornish's (Development Officer Employers, CILIP) presentation to the CILIP 2017 Conference in Manchester #CILIPConf17 When starting out in your career first impressions count. This workshop will provide preparation strategies to get you off to a great start. Using resources from CILIP’s Careers Hub and Impact Toolkit you will identify your strengths using SWOT and PKSB, and communicate your value with an elevator pitch.
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- 1. #CILIPConf17 Sponsored by Media partners Organised by Your Career Sponsored by: Information School, The University of Sheffield
- 2. #CILIPConf17 Sponsored by Media partners Organised by Starting out in your career Juanita Foster-Jones, Development Officer (VLE), CILIP Jo Cornish, Development Officer (Employers), CILIP
- 4. “Who are You?” CC BY 2.0 https://flic.kr/p/ecdjhY
- 5. Tools to help • SWOT analysis • Mind Map • PKSB online tool (members only) https://vimeo.com/173035665 SWOT Mindmaps PKSB Tool
- 6. A tool for analysing development needs
- 7. How it is used • Outlines the skills base for the library and information professions • Tool to demonstrate your unique skill set to your employer • Identify courses which can be accredited by CILIP • Development plan for Certification, Chartership and Fellowship • Self assessment tool for members • Workforce planning and development
- 11. Assessing your own skills and knowledge
- 12. Exercise: PKSB self-assessment • Try your own self-assessment by rating some of your skills and knowledge • Refer to the self-assessment ratings table • The “current rating” is a measure of your current level of skills and knowledge • The “ideal rating” is where you need to be for your current/future role • “Current” and “ideal” can be the same number
- 13. Org and IS aims
- 14. Elevator pitches Prepare a one minute pitch. To do this you will need to: •Identify the audience •What issue/problem they may have •How you can address it CC BY-NC 2.0 https://flic.kr/p/hYjmw
- 15. Want to know more...?
- 16. What will you take away? Send a tweet with #mycareer #CILIPConf17 1 thing you will take away to help with your career CC BY 2.0 https://flic.kr/p/9VF4ub
Editor's Notes
- Introduce selves Welcome to this workshop session on starting your career. In this session we will be asking you to undertake some activities which can help you Plan your career Identify what strengths you bring to an organisation Understand how you contribute to your organisation’s objectives Create an elevator pitch that identifies what you bring to the table.
- When it comes to planning your career it really is all about you. What experience/skills have you got What do you want to do? Where do you want to be? What are your priorities – personal and work?
- Activity 1: SWOT analysis/Mindmap Time: 5 mins solo + 5 mins pair and share/feedback Resource: K:\Member Service\CPD\Careers\Careers Hub\swot analysis.docx There are different activities you can do to think about who you are, what your strengths are. Today we are going to give you the chance to explore two of the ones listed here. This first activity is about thinking about you What are your strengths and weaknesses, what constraints you might have in planning your career. For this you have a choice of activity You can either do a SWOT analysis – see handouts or if you prefer a more visual approach you can do a mind map version of this – just use the reverse of the handout We’d like you to spend 5 minutes just jotting down your thoughts on who you are Then we will ask you to “pair and share” – discuss in pairs what you have put and why for a couple of minutes.
- CILIP’s Professional Knowledge and Skills Base identifies the professional expertise and generic skills required for those working in Library, Information and Knowledge sectors. It is represented by this wheel with Ethics and values at the heart, the 8 areas of professional expertise and 4 areas of generic skills set within the Wider Library Information and Knowledge Sector Context and the Wider Organisation and environmental context. CILIP is proud of this incredibly valuable resource to help its members conduct their own self assessment. As a tool for personal use, you can use it for professional registration as part of your career planning to contribute to your appraisal process at work
- CILIP is proud of this incredibly valuable resource to help its members conduct their own self assessment. As a tool for personal use, you can use it for professional registration as part of your career planning to contribute to your appraisal process at work [jfj addition] We will be using a section of it today to give you a feel for how you could use this to help you plan your career, but first we will explain how you can access it
- Now that you are a little more familiar with the PKSB, let’s take a look at the online version.
- You will now get an opportunity to assess your own skills and knowledge against the PKSB. This exercise is designed to show you the process of highlighting the areas that you need to develop in order to carry out your current role, or perhaps plan for your next role. This is your own analysis, so be honest about where you think you are.
- Activity 2: Using the PKSB for career planning Resources: Worksheet K:\Member Service\CPD\Professional Knowledge and Skills Base\using the pksb to plan your career workshop handout.docx Time: 5 mins + 2 mins feedback Using the worksheets provided, carry out your assessment. The worksheets are from section 12 of the full PKSB. The guidance is provided in this slide. You have around five minutes to do this, but if you need longer, that is no problem.
- One of the key things to think about as a new professional is understanding your organisations aims and objectives and where the library and information and your role contributes to those. Take time to look at your organisational strategic plan – does it directly mention LIS services? Are there activities that the LIS service can directly support? Can you see how you can contribute i.e. Are there opportunities that have been overlooked. Just to give a quick example of how this can work in practice we gave a workshop at the University of Kent in Canterbury for their staff on the impact toolkit. As part of that we compared the organisation strategy [on the left] with the Information Service strategy on the right. We then had a discussion as to what extent they were contributing to the organisations priorities.
- The premise behind elevator pitches is that you are in an elevator with someone influential and you have the time it takes to get to their floor to initiate a conversation that will leave them with a memorable message about your service. Activity 3: Elevator pitch Resource: Page 3 of K:\Member Service\VLE\Courses\Impact Toolkit\communication worksheet.docx Timing: 5 mins to prepare a 1 minute pitch, then deliver it to the person next to you. It can be as simple as a one-liner telling them what you do. To be able to do this you need to Know your audience - what motivates and interests this person? Structure what you want to say - think of a problem/issue and how you can address this. How can you help them meet their goals. Speak clearly, plainly, without jargon. Simple and to the point - you have a minute to get your message across. As this is a career planning session you could use the scenario you are applying for a job, you are in the elevator with one of the interview panel, tell them why you are the best person for that job.
- Thank you all for participating. We hope you have found this useful. If you have enjoyed these activities and would like to do more then there are resources on the CILIP Virtual Learning environment that are freely available to members to support your CPD. In particular The Careers hub on the CILIP VLE has advice and guidance on how to plan and manage your career, including activities, readings and audio interviews The Impact Toolkit has a range of activities to help you demonstrate your value and advocate for your services on the themes of Planning and scoping, stakeholder analysis, impact & evidence, communication, building relationships and advocacy.
- And finally...To help us capture some quick and dirty feedback we’d like to ask you to tweet what one thing you will take away from this session. It could be something you plan to do as a result Some idea that the activities have brought into mind