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This post was originally posted by Laura Woods as part of the 2011 programme. It has also given me the confidence to prepare my first session which I have to deliver next week (takes deep breath!).

It also gave me something to point to in the application for my current post to prove that, despite having no previous teaching experience, I have the necessary skills to deliver an information skills session. However, knowing that teachng skills are increasingly in demand for academic librarian posts, I saw it as a chance to brush up on and showcase my presentation skills. Presentation at the event which is something I doubt I would otherwise have been brave enough to do, especially as the presentations were filmed and uploaded to the wesbite!Īs an inexperienced speaker, preparing the presentation for the TeachMeet took up a lot of my unpaid time and the prospect of standing up in front of fifty people, some of whom might be potential employers, was pretty terrifying. The enthusiasm and support of my fellow organisers also inspired me to give a The TeachMeet helped me to regain my confidence.

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Professional post I began to doubt my abilities. Graduating from library school and finding it hard to get a

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Therefore took a bit of a financial gamble and chose to continue working part time and use my free time to gain professional experience through volunteering. The rut you can fall into because you can’t get a job withoutĮxperience and you can’t get experience because you can’t get a job.' I Consequently, I found myself in what Bronagh McCrudden Gain the practical hands-on experience I needed to progress to a professional post. My employers were very supportive of my career, I'd pretty much exhausted the limited opportunities to Nevertheless, I respectfullyĭeclined their offer even though some of my friends and family thought I was mad.

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After several unsuccessfulĪpplications, I was grateful when my employers offered me my full time hours back. After graduation, I found myself with more time on my hands and less money in the bank and so began applyingįor academic librarian posts in earnest. This meant dropping to part time hours and using a hefty chunk of my savings to study. Having worked as a library assistant for several years, I finally took the plunge and applied to library school.

Keep blogging and let us know how you get on!.

Write about the process of putting the plan together and whether you think this is a useful way to think about your CPD in general.

You don't have to put the PDP or SWOT analysis on the blog unless you feel comfortable doing that.

Think about how you can fill those gaps and put together a Personal Development Plan to do that.

The Library Routes and Library Day in the Life projects might be helpful here too. If you are a CILIP member, their new Professional Knowledge and Skills Base is worth looking at and I'm sure equivalents exist for other library associations.

Identify some gaps in your experience, either by looking at requirements for that next job you're aiming for or by conducting a SWOT analysis or personal skills audit.

For this last thing, we would like you to reflect on the programme in general and on what you want to do next.

I've put together a quick template that can be used for this, but feel free to tweak it to suit yourself or use one of the many other templates available online. The idea with these is that you identify some sort of development need, think about how you could fill that gap, and set yourself a SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-Limited) objective to help you do it. Many organisations include some kind of Personal Development Plans (PDP) as part of their staff review/appraisal processes.

A short evaluation of the programme is coming soon, but if you're up for a challenge maybe you could come up with a '6 word story' to sum up how you feel about the programme. Thank you all for following the programme and well done for getting to Thing 23.

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