Hello, librarians!  I’m back – at last.  My brief podcast pause lasted a couple of weeks longer than I anticipated, so if you’re still with me and listening, thank you for that. I have made my cross-country move and am settling into my new, if only temporary, home.   I expected to be back sooner, but all my podcasting equipment got misplaced in my move and I just found it a couple of days ago! It’s good to be getting back to the podcast.  
 
Recently, I was working with a librarian who is contemplating a career move.  We were discussing the challenge of getting hired for a supervisory role when you have no library supervisory experience. 

 I feel safe in saying that all job postings for library management positions call for prior supervisory experience.  That’s a reasonable thing, but if you’re looking to move up into management for the first time it creates kind of a Catch-22. You can’t get the job because you don’t have the experience, and you can’t get the experience if you don’t have the job. 

The key to that dilemma is to secure leadership positions and opportunities in other contexts and offer those as your qualifying experience.

So today, I’m going to share three tips for preparing and presenting yourself as someone ready for a supervisory role in the library, even if you lack the experience. 

Complete show notes can be found at masterfullibrarian.com/ep-21.