Hey, I’m back!
You may not have noticed, as I had posts scheduled to run automatically, but I spent most of February ignoring this blog. It was great! I did all sorts of cool things like going on long bike rides on weekends, and sitting and watching movies without the presence of my laptop.
The thing that it made clear is that I’m no longer interested in spending such a large chunk of my time on this blog.
I started this blog when I was unemployed and had more time. I’m not unemployed anymore, I have an interesting, permanent-with-benefits position, and another job as an on-call librarian. My career is in such a place that I’m less interested in the process of becoming librarians, and more interested in the work of being librarians. And being able to do non-library things and achieve some sort of, you know, work-life balance, is actually pretty important to my continued enthusiasm for libraries.
However, I’m not quite ready to kill this blog yet.
I’m wondering if there might be a few of you out there who are willing to share the work with me. What’s primarily needed is people to transcribe the completed surveys. They are in an Excel spreadsheet, and need to be re-written into blog format. Are you interested? If so, please fill out this form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ipbkNNJjUd-EgwMbnK5Buks82vYoUNlivV2iy0_GYZU/viewform
Oh yeah and
Your Monthly-ish Reminder:
Have you been on a library interview recently? Or are you prepping for one?
Sounds like you could use The Interview Questions Repository!
If you’ve had a library interview recently, help this resource grow by reporting the questions you were asked:
http://tinyurl.com/interviewquestionsform
or by sharing this link widely with your friends and colleagues.
If you are about to go on an interview, use the spreadsheet:
http://tinyurl.com/InterviewQuestionsRepository
to help you prepare.
Top tip: Switch the spreadsheet to list view, in order to be able to limit by answers – you can choose to only look at the phone interviews at public libraries, for example.
Bottom tip: For respondents, you should be able to edit your answers, if you think of something to add, etc.
You will also always be able to find these links in the sidebar to your right —>
If you’d like to respond to any other surveys, or otherwise participate in this blog,
will give you links and options.
Thanks for reading, readers! Thanks for contributing, contributors!
If you think a repository of questions that people have been asked in library interviews is a useful tool, please help keep it dynamic and relevant by sharing this post with at least one person today. Thanks!
YOUR PAL,
EMILY
Hiring Librarians 