My Road to Chartership
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My Road to Chartership by Ruth Gould
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My Road to Chartership
- 1. My road to Chartership Ruth Gould, Information Librarian, Aberdeen City Libraries Email: rgould@aberdeencity.gov.uk Twitter: @ruth_m_gould
- 2. Why do Chartership – my journey Perfect way to progress my career Forced to do it for my job It makes me do my job better
- 3. Me at the beginning
- 4. What made it easier • Focussing on getting the easier elements done before tackling the “scary stuff” • Look at the sector guides for the PKSB • Taking it at my own pace but being aware of PROCRASTINATION • You’re not alone – talk to others
- 5. Evidence Tips • Keep a file and notes on what you do • Link it to the PKSB as you go along Examples of Evidence • CILIP Designing Impact VLE Course Worksheets • An enquiry to JISC mailing list • Business Case for Healthy Reading Collections
- 6. It is ok to fail!
- 7. 3 overall tips from my experience • Take it one step at a time and your mentor is there to help you see the wood from the trees – so use them. • Look and do some of the online training through CILIP portal. You might not use it in your final submission but it is helpful. • Connect, connect, connect – librarians and information professionals are really quite friendly. Be proactive and think of reaching out to others as not an extra chore but as a way to enhance your work.
- 8. Remember the assessors don’t know how wonderful you are it is up to you to show them what a top class professional you are.
- 9. Thank you and feel free to contact me Ruth Gould, Information Librarian, Aberdeen City Libraries Email: rgould@aberdeencity.gov.uk Twitter: @ruth_m_gould
Editor's Notes
- It was a long journey for me. I started then quit then restarted then procrastinated, then put my head down, submitted, failed my submission, took time to reflect did some extra work, resubmitted and passed. This was over about 6 years of my life. My advice is don’t let it drag on but if you do you will get there in the end just keep chipping away at it.
- To start off with I was determined to get my chartership. I’d been told how it was this worthwhile activity and well to be honest I was keen to put those post nominals on my name and be able to demonstrate my worth within a crowded workspace – get that fabled permanent professional post. This wasn’t enough though and I quit and struggled to restart for a few years. I restarted when I got my permanent post the same one that I am in now. Starting a new job allowed me to take a fresh look at the whole chartership process and give it a go again. I felt I could do it this time – new mentor, new job, new focus plenty to talk about. Everyone is different but I think most people at some point begin to refer to it as the other C word. The reason I quit first time round was largely to do with my job situation being temporary and not feeling secure enough to keep going at chartership when my job would come to an end in x number of months. Some of my colleagues in my situation did manage it but it was a step too far for me. I still got disillusioned the second time around but I had to keep going as it was in my contract and reflecting back at those days I’m glad I kept at it because It is worth persevering because you’ll find a better reason for why you’re doing it or what the process has given you. Charteship for me forced me to look beyond my day to day work and try new things including experimenting with new ways of evaluating my work and proving impact.
- This guy represents me when I finally buckled myself down to trying to charter once more. Confusion, despair and dread spring to mind when I looked at the PKSB or PSKB as I called it for months. I had to double check this I had it right for this presentation. For a few moments I considered: running to the hills becoming a buddhist monk, retraining in another field. It’s not that bad though my mentor and my unofficial mentor – my boss put everything in perspective for me.
- So Chartership seemed like this scary unfathomable process for me. I just didn’t get it. However I could research and write my annotated CV. I found the PKSB templates handy as I would have literally marked myself as a 1 for everything – I have no self confidence so it bolstered me to assess my knowledge and skill realistically rather than by the wee small voice in my head. I didn’t follow it religiously it just gave me an idea of how it worked. I don’t deal with pressure very well as I tend to put a lot on myself. Surrounding myself by people who could remind me to relax and take it at my own pace while prodding me not to forget about it was key to me progressing, everyone is different though find out what works for you – it is part of the process. Talk to others It doesn’t need to be chartership related but take an interest in your profession and what others are doing. – CILIP Chartership Group on Facebook is a good starting ground for asking questions specific to chartership but I found I got great value out of Twitter chats such as UKLibChat. One thing I found interesting was that my non library followers started following the conversations and sending me private messages to learn more.
- Even super humans like ourselves forget stuff. You never know what might be useful and what you think is definitely a piece of evidence you might choose to leave out later. However don’t just stockpile try and match things to the PKSB and reflect on why you’re putting it aside. Examples helped me a lot so I am going to share some of my evidence here: I explained why I did the course, how I integrated my learning into my practice and what I planned to do with it going forward which involved using the forms again and then if successful share my knowledge and learning with my colleagues. I interacted on the JISC mailing list for Information Literacy as I wanted to know what work was going on with regards combatting “Fake News”. I highlighted some work of my own as part of the enquiry Chartership motivated me to reach out beyond my own four walls and contacts. The response I got was so overwhelming. People are really kind. I used the experience in my chartership to both show how this act made me appreciate the value of my own work which I don’t generally and I also used it to show my professional voice and make recommendations on where I thought the profession could be focussing efforts. I also highlighted how that simple interaction was informing future actions. You can include pieces of work you have done simply as a vehicle for speaking about what you learnt during the process of creating them. I used this to show how I dealt with a situation where the lead of this project was switched from a senior colleague to myself with our roles reversed 4 months into the project. I was able to show how I used prior experience to make this transition run smoothly despite my nerves. The document itself also influenced how projects are managed and planned within our service as I was unhappy with the tools at my disposal so sought permission to try something new.
- As I said I failed with my first submission. Try to pass first time but you’re not alone if you do get a knock back. CILIP and your mentor will be there to help you. It took all my strength to see my mentor go through the feedback and together look at how we could get me to pass as we both thought my application clearly stated all my experience and told my story. I regrouped added more evidence to show my professional voice and to clarify what I was saying by including evidence pieces. Basically I annotated everything and linked it to the PKSB telling my story loud and clear.