The Business Librarian and the Career Center:Promoting Student Engagement and Business Information Literacy
Presented by: Jordan Nielsen, Business & Entrepreneurship LibrarianRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Agenda
• Background• Collaboration• Future Plans
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Background
• James Dickson Carr Library (Livingston Campus) houses the Career Collection Room
• Career information part of the Business Librarian’s portfolio
• Interim Business Librarian collaborated with University Career Services (UCS) intermittently
Collaboration
• Career Collection Room refresh (Summer 2017)• Business & Entrepreneurship Librarian sought to
expand the collaboration• UCS and Business & Entrepreneurship collaborated
throughout the 2017-2018 academic year on several projects…
Resume Critiques
Career Clusters
Workshops
The Numbers
• Resume Critiques: 115+ students helped over 22 Thursdays
• Career Clusters: 27 students at 2 workshops (Applying for Graduate School, Summer Job Search)
• Finding & Researching Employers Workshops: 31 students at 2 workshops
Future Plans
• Continue resume critiques; possibly expanding to more libraries
• Planning to add a Career Cluster session that will be focused on researching employers
• Finding & Researching Employers workshops will be expanded
More info!
• https://youtu.be/l-ITnsheoHw
Credit
• Rutgers University – New Brunswick map taken from: https://rumaps.rutgers.edu/sites/rumaps/files/NB_Overview_map.pdf
• All other photos in this presentation are freely available on Unsplash.com