1. Finding New Opportunities:
A Multi-Level Partnership with the Office of Career Advancement
Keely Wilczek, Manager of User Services & Engagement, HKS Library & Knowledge Services (LKS)
Beth Olson, Associate Director & Career Coach, HKS Office of Career Advancement (OCA)
Harvard Library Learns, March 21, 2019

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LKS/OCA Collaborations
Library Resources for Your Job Search LibGuide
Subscription to LegiStorm PRO & E-resource demos
Print & e-book Career Collection
OCA handouts in Library
Job Search Pop-Ups

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Library Resources for Your Job Search
Launched 9/2014
Almost 5,000 views
Most popular page:
Directories
Most popular link:
Leadership Connect
Co-created by myself & Amanda Peters (formerly OCA)
Great opportunity to explore our existing resources from a different perspective (someone doing a job search) – found uses for resources we hadn’t thought of before

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Adding, Learning, and Discovering E-Resources
Set up subscription for LegiStorm PRO - find contact information for Congressional staff - search by education, military service, and gender
LKS & OCA have attended e-resource demos together for Leadership Connect, LegiStorm PRO, and BoardEx
Discovered that Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences Office of Career Services had subscriptions for Vault and GoinGlobal that were available to anyone at Harvard

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OCA in the Library
In 2017 the OCA offices were
moved off the main HKS campus
to 124 Mt. Auburn. LKS provides
a spot for OCA handouts
alongside the Career Collection.

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Job Search Pop-Ups:
Open Hours with OCA and the HKS Library
Trying to find the name of someone with your dream employer? Looking to create a list of organizations in your target location?
Bring your laptop to meet with a career coach and a librarian and learn your way around available resources for a networked job search. This is an opportunity to learn how to create a list of companies or people to target in a specific geographic area.
32 pop-ups since November 2017
Interactions number from 6-50 per pop-up
Career Coaches & Librarians are seen actively engaging in the community by high level administrators as we connect with students, staff, and faculty.

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Job Search Pop-Ups

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Job Search Pop-Ups

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Job Search Pop-Ups

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Questions?