1 / 15

Organizing information : roles, skills & training for the future

This article discusses the changing landscape of information organization jobs, the skills needed for the future, and the best strategies for job seeking and project hunting. It also explores the role of technology in the industry and the need for adaptability in this rapidly evolving field.

lamoreaux
Download Presentation

Organizing information : roles, skills & training for the future

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Organizing information: roles, skills & training for the future Job seeking &Project hunting Aref Makooi March 2016

  2. Education & experience • University education: library / information • Work experience & training • Library Association or equivalents • University degree or not University degree?

  3. The Job Market • 30 years ago • TFPL, Intelligent Resources, Sue Hill , ASLIB , LA, Glen recruitment … • 10 years ago • Mergers , takeover s and only a few left today • Today 100s of Digital, IT and general recruiters • From very large (100s employee) to one-man-band recruiters

  4. Advertising for jobs • Printed in professional papers or telephone calls • Emails • Recruiters’ websites • Social media: LinkedIn … • Spider websites

  5. jobs titles • Librarian, Information scientist, Records manager • Cataloguer, Indexer, Archivist, Reference, Academic or School, Acquisition and circulation librarian, Collection development, Information officer, RM ... • Ontology /Taxonomist, Category developer, KM or Digital RM, Metadata or information governance specialist, Digital Copywriter, HCI, User Tester Researcher, UX designer or specialists…

  6. what do our jobs mean? • Our job titles are alien to the public • What do we mean by Taxonomy, Digital copywriting, UX, UI, IA, Metadata and many more? • BBC Radio 4 programme “Quote unquote” 12 Nov 2015: “BBC IA” Job spec. was read as a joke! Digital Agencies

  7. “IT” is the World again! • “IT” departments manage most of taxonomy and ontology projects • Most of taxonomy and ontology jobs are advertised by “IT” recruiter • Web Developers and programmers mostly work in “IT” related departments

  8. Skills needed now • Project management • Web and general design • Programming and web development • Research (Personas) & User testing • User journey & User Experience (UX) and IA • Content audit and strategy • SEO, Web Analysis & Analytics • Taxonomy, Metadata and Information governance

  9. Project searching: The sites • TFPL / Sue Hill, Cilip and Glen and CB recruitment • IT & Digital agencies, too many with many jobs… • Reed, Hays (30-40% more jobs than all above!) • Spider sites: Adzuna, Indeed… (even a lot more jobs) • LinkedIin: with a few lines of job spec …

  10. Project Searching: terms & times • LinkedIn: “Looking for” • Search terms: Taxonomy, Metadata, Content analysis… • Special positions: Category developer, Taxonomist… • Taxonomy is now a common skill for: Risk, Financial and Insurance companies. Why, I don’t know! • Time: 4-6 weeks before or after each quarter in the year!

  11. Do our students know: • What jobs titles to look for? • Which sites & how to look for these jobs? • Networking : how many students are here? • How many of them have a “Business Card”, or a LinkedIn profile or even a CV? • What work experience they have for special positions? • How much they know about Consulting skills?

  12. My projects 30% vs70%

  13. Changing world of skills • The landscape of jobs are changing: BBC “Start the Week” http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0713zf1 22/Feb/16 • What do we need to teach university students to survive these changes? • What will institutions like CILIP do to catch up with these rapid changes? • What will our specialist recruits do to compete with larger recruiters and different recruiting techniques?

  14. The question! • What will happen to our jobs in the next decades? • What can we do to be part of this change? • We have the right skills : Organising & Retrieving information, Research skills & much more… • What do the audience think?

  15. THANK YOU • Aref Makooi • Email: arefittoo@yahoo.com • Tel: 07 989 337 162 • Web: www.arefittoo.com

More Related