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 o Library Association or equivalents  University degree or not University degree?

3. THE JOB MARKET  30 years ago o TFPL, Intelligent Resources, Sue Hill, ASLIB, LA, Glen recruitment …  10 years ago o Mergers, takeover s and only a few left today  Today 100s of Digital, IT and general recruiters o 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% VS 70%

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 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.comwww.arefittoo.com