Start Date
3-16-2022 4:30 PM
End Date
3-16-2022 5:00 PM
Keywords
career support, partnerships, workshop, employment, outcomes
Description of Proposal
For a variety of reasons, some graduate students ultimately determine that they would like to pursue a career outside of the ivory tower. At the same time, these scholars may be uncertain about how to translate their expertise into a nonacademic position. At Cornell University, a partnership between the Management Library and the Careers Beyond Academia office has allowed librarians to utilize their unique expertise to assist graduate students throughout their job search.
At the Management Library, business librarians have historically worked with the Career Management Center of the Johnson Graduate School of Management to assist MBA and graduate business students as they prepare for their careers. Positive career outcomes are an important metric for any institution, and librarians support this goal by assisting students throughout all stages of their job search, from locating companies of interest to preparing for interviews and even salary negotiations. Through a partnership with Careers Beyond Academia, librarians have adapted their career research support to assist a broader graduate audience through workshops and one-on-one research consultations.
At these workshops, business librarians introduce business research concepts and demonstrate relevant research strategies. At the earliest stages of their career search, graduate students learn to use library resources to begin creating lists of organizations to target as potential employers. At later workshops, students find out how resources like industry reports and company 10-Ks can help them to prepare for an interview and generate questions of their own. In the future, librarians hope to offer workshops specifically geared towards international students who wish to secure positions and remain in the United States.
In this presentation, I’ll discuss the history of the library’s partnership with the Careers Beyond Academia office and explain how I’ve adapted our approach to career research to be more accessible to a wider audience. I’ll also share lessons learned and possible opportunities for further development of the partnership.
Beyond the Ivory Tower: Supporting the Graduate Nonacademic Career Search through Library Partnerships
For a variety of reasons, some graduate students ultimately determine that they would like to pursue a career outside of the ivory tower. At the same time, these scholars may be uncertain about how to translate their expertise into a nonacademic position. At Cornell University, a partnership between the Management Library and the Careers Beyond Academia office has allowed librarians to utilize their unique expertise to assist graduate students throughout their job search.
At the Management Library, business librarians have historically worked with the Career Management Center of the Johnson Graduate School of Management to assist MBA and graduate business students as they prepare for their careers. Positive career outcomes are an important metric for any institution, and librarians support this goal by assisting students throughout all stages of their job search, from locating companies of interest to preparing for interviews and even salary negotiations. Through a partnership with Careers Beyond Academia, librarians have adapted their career research support to assist a broader graduate audience through workshops and one-on-one research consultations.
At these workshops, business librarians introduce business research concepts and demonstrate relevant research strategies. At the earliest stages of their career search, graduate students learn to use library resources to begin creating lists of organizations to target as potential employers. At later workshops, students find out how resources like industry reports and company 10-Ks can help them to prepare for an interview and generate questions of their own. In the future, librarians hope to offer workshops specifically geared towards international students who wish to secure positions and remain in the United States.
In this presentation, I’ll discuss the history of the library’s partnership with the Careers Beyond Academia office and explain how I’ve adapted our approach to career research to be more accessible to a wider audience. I’ll also share lessons learned and possible opportunities for further development of the partnership.
What takeaways will attendees learn from your session?
Attendees will learn how the library can support university-wide career outcomes. They will also learn how business and career research can be adapted to an audience who is unfamiliar with general business research concepts. Finally, they will learn how partnerships with offices outside of the library can be leveraged to expand the current audience for library workshops, research consultations, etc.