Yeah.

Yeah, which I get.

It's not possible for everyone and everybody has their budget they need to work with.

But yeah, here I am almost five years later and still kicking.

But I think one of the big things is that I started out as a resume writer exclusively.

And over time, what my clients really needed was more than that.

They needed more than just me handing them a, you know, beautiful, I will say, resume, effective resume.

What are a couple of ways job hunters can use LinkedIn to assist in a job search?

What do librarians tend to underestimate about their experience?

How transferable it can be.

But also just that they have actual strengths, um, because it is a job where you tend to just pick up all the pieces of what needs to be done, especially certain positions.

Some are very specialized, and you kinda stay in your own lane, but when I was children's librarian, I was kinda doing a lot because we were a smaller library, so I was a department of one.

I had pages to help me and everything, but I was doing the marketing for the events.

I was, um, doing our social media 'cause we didn't have social media.

I was like, "We should probably have this, so I'm gonna start it." I was doing all the programming.

... what kind of... what parts of library work are the hardest to translate or communicate or explain to non-library employers?

transitions you've seen? so one thing

is we're not good at talking about what we do and part of that is that this is in my opinion a very mission-driven sort of field a lot of people get into libraries because they feel passionate about helping their community or sharing information or you know those types of things so a lot of times we revert to we we talk about in terms of what we as a library do what we as a team do and not so much focusing on the individual so that's Part of the struggle is just getting people to tell me like, no, but what did you do? I know you were part of a team, but what did you do in that role that made that library better, more efficient, whatever positive outcome? So that's part of it.

And then we can get into translating the skills based on what they're going for next, because we could translate skills all day into corporate speak, but Really, you need to know where you're headed and have a target job in mind in order to speak the language of that specific field and to understand the context in which you'd be working.

That, you know, engagement in a public library is very different and measured differently than engagement in a corporate setting.

Some of my favorite transitions that I can think of recently, one was a middle and upper school librarian at a private school.

And she became a research analyst at a law firm.

And she didn't have any law background.

I

Mm-hmm

...

but then I felt like Adrienne was able to articulate to me why things were working.

Um, so it wasn't just like, "This doesn't feel like it's working," but also, like, "This is really working because of X, Y, and Z." So I, I remember the specific thing was I think the book starts with a picture of two women, and then at the very end it also ends with a picture of two women.

And I remember Adrienne telling me, like, "Oh, I really hope they, like, take a picture together at the scene." [laughs] And I-

Yeah.

Yeah.

I feel like that was a little bit what I was getting at with the, like, we're just made out of stories.