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You'll find it especially helpful, though, if you're looking for work, currently in a short-term position, or anticipating a return to the job market in order to advance or move in a new professional direction.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTopics covered will include advice and resources for launching your career in audio preservation, moving across disciplinary boundaries or job sectors, and putting your best foot forward when you're ready to take your next professional steps. We'll discuss how to keep learning once you've left the structure of graduate school, as well as how to keep your spirits up during the stressful job-search process. 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So got some more trickling in. But let's get started, right? Hi, I'm Dan Hockstein and... \n\nYuri Shimoda","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=17.0,31.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"...I'm Yuri Shimoda \n\nDan Hockstein","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=31.0,34.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"...and we are the series coordinators for this ARSC Continuing Education Webinar Series. We're really excited about it. If you're not familiar with ARSC, ARSC is the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. It's a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings, in all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. ARSC is unique in bringing together private individuals and institutional professionals, everyone with a serious interest in recorded sound. So this is the first in the series. We have another one in January, and it's going to be on critical cataloging and description of sound recordings. We're very excited about that one as well. And I'm going to pass it on to Yuri, who's going to give us a little bit of information about how this is going to work today. \n\nYuri Shimoda","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=34.0,89.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So the format for today's webinar will be about forty-five minutes of instructional content, followed by a question and answer period. The entire webinar is being recorded. A recording with closed captioning will be made available to all ARSC members and registered attendees via ARSC's Aviary website.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=89.0,115.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But without further ado, we would like to welcome and introduce our guest speaker who will be leading today's webinar, Snowden Becker. Snowden has been a researcher, instructor, and working professional in the field of archives and media preservation for over twenty-five years. She co-founded the International Home Movie Day event and the nonprofit Center for Home Movies, which received the Hamer Keegan Award for Archival Advocacy from the Society of American Archivists in 2017. From 2012 to 2019, she managed graduate programs in media archives and library and information science at UCLA. She has plenty of experience with precarity herself, from grant-funded positions and adjunct teaching to project-based work and consulting. And she continues to advocate for working archivists as a board member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. Welcome, Snowden. \n\nSnowden Becker","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=115.0,183.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thank you, Yuri. And thanks, Dan. Thanks, everybody for attending. I'm blown away and really gratified by the large number of participants and really appreciate you taking the time out during a bizarrely stressful time. I know that the next twenty-four hours are a lot for everybody, and so one of my goals for this session is to give folks a sense of control and possibility that's positive, in a time where we all really feel like this poor little doggy here, just like scrambling to keep ourselves from slipping through the hole and into the unknown.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=183.0,223.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So as Yuri mentioned, I am-- here we go. We are going to have a Q\u0026A at the end. I just want to put this up here and note that I am totally okay with folks chiming in with questions. You will also have opportunities to contribute about yourself very early on. And so please use the Q\u0026A feature for questions that you'd like to make sure that we address, either during the presentation or in the Q\u0026A portion afterwards. You can get in the queue for the Q\u0026A early and often. We'll try to answer as many as we can. And, Dan and Yuri, if you guys can be sure to be capturing those questions so that we can try to answer offline any that come up, I'll make sure that we have some time. And I'll provide a link to the answers that I post on my website. So, and of course, this is an ARSC event, so the ARSC Code of Conduct is in effect. Please be respectful of others, and choose your words carefully because this is an inclusive, welcoming, and supportive space, where everybody should feel like they have equal rights to ask questions and everybody is fully human in this space.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=223.0,301.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, speaking of fully human, who am I? As Yuri mentions, I am somebody who has a lot of experience with precarious employment. For the last twenty-five years, the majority of my employment has been non-permanent, non-salaried, soft money, grant-funded, fellowships, all kinds of bits and pieces, part-time jobs stacked up one on top of another that adds up to more than full-time work. The drill that probably most of you, if not all of you, are familiar with already. My personal record so far is six years on a one-year, part-time contract that UCLA. I was eventually hired full-time for that. I've been hired full-time out of temporary and contingent work a couple of times in my life. So if people have questions about that, I think some of it will be addressed by the content of this session. But if people have specific questions about how to make that happen, I have some ideas and some strategies that have worked for me and that might work for you, as well. And they might also be useful to think of for managers. So if there are managers in the group who have had success with this, please feel free to chime in via the chat pane or supplement any responses or ideas I have with your own. There are a lot of people in this room, so that means a breadth of experience and folks who know more than me. Even though I'm the one leading this, we are all in this together, and it's a knowledge sharing opportunity, as well as a lot knowledge gaining opportunity.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=301.0,402.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So I have also worked with and spoken to probably a thousand or so folks over the years who are career changes thinking about graduate school or looking to get in to the field without having to go to graduate school. People who have a skillset or credentials or seniority in the field and have moved across and amongst sectors in our field, from industry to public sector to the private sector and beyond. And I have a good sense from having spoken to in depth with those people about their careers, their desires and how they've gotten to where they were, how they're getting to where they want to go, how folks are making the most of the skill sets that we share and differentiating themselves in the job market in important ways that contribute to their success.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=402.0,454.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So I also want to know who you are. A lot of you have chimed in via the chat pane to say hi. I have it direct from the horse's mouth that at least one person in the world out there has gotten connected with an employment opportunity by reaching out to a fellow webinar attendee who described their work in the introduction section of the presentation. And she reached out to her afterwards via LinkedIn and said, Hey, I was really interested in the startup that you're involved with. Tell me more. I'd like to meet with you. I think maybe I have some skills that could be useful to you in your work. So that does actually happen. This is part of how we network and we do our relationship-building, our connection-making in this brave new world of Zoom meetings and online webinars and no more in-person. We have to figure out how to do a virtual handshake and follow up. So please feel free to plop into the chat page your little elevator speech, who you are, what you do. Just a sentence or two is enough to let us know who's here and what you're interested in. And I appreciate also the effort that you all put into letting us know what questions you had, what you wanted to come away with the session from. So I'm going to try to make sure that I hit as many of those as possible as we go. And please feel free to ask more along the way as well. I'm totally open to have people jump in with questions, comments or additions, links to share, et cetera, et cetera.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=454.0,551.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, first and foremost, I want to frame this discussion by pushing back on the idea or testing the notion that precarity is necessarily a pejorative. Is precarity really that bad? That is the question I would like to ask. As somebody who is starting to realize what sorts of things precarity forced me to do that I might not have done otherwise in order to keep my job or to move on to another job because I knew my job was ending, precarity isn't always bad. But, of course, it's terrible! Yes, precarity is awful! It is stressful. It adds anxiety, a layer of anxiety to just the ordinary, everyday workplace. Am I doing well enough to keep my job anxiety. Knowing that you're going to lose a job or knowing that your job is potentially going to come to an end at a time not yet known. The inability to make long term plans. The inability to be transparent with people about, Well, I am applying for this grant funding, but I may not be here to actually do the work. I am not sure if I am going to be starting a family, if my partner is going to be leaving their job. All of those things create precarity, add to precarity, and make us feel like we can't get rooted or really do the long-term planning. It's a bizarre truth that precarity is, in fact, our normal. That we have been working in the audiovisual archiving field and the audio archiving field, a lot of this forever work that we do is done on a very temporary and contingent basis. It's one of the real ironies of archival work is that so much of what we do is trying to do long-term, forever preservation with a never-never kind of job structure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=551.0,678.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So what's weird and different right now is that we are in an unprecedented time during which a two-year grant-funded position might actually feel less precarious than a salaried permanent position that might be eliminated in the wake of budget cuts. When you're on a grant-funded position, you at least know where the money's coming from, how much of it there is and how long it's going to last. That is not the case for a lot of people now who used to feel secure and not precarious at all. It's weird and it's scary, and it's important that we acknowledge that and also try to quantify the impact that that has on our ability to work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=678.0,727.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"However, it's not just us, and it's just as it has been. It's not just now, it's not new, it's not us. So the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the United States says that job tenure tends to be around four to six years. So anywhere, depending on which statistics you're looking at, from three point seven years to six years. Federal employees tend to stay in one job the longest, eight point three years. Again, with the massive budget cuts that we're looking at, we may be looking at some real changes in those numbers, too. However, the average person in the U.S. will move 11 plus times in their life, so, obviously, a job move is part of a physical move. So whether you're moving to go to college or moving to be closer to aging parents or other caregiving responsibilities, there are a lot of reasons people move and that often requires us to change jobs, as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=727.0,786.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, there's really no such thing as a forever job. Somebody said something to me recently about expressing disappointment about a job that was not working out for them, and they said, I really thought this was going to be my forever job and this is somebody who's in their in their thirties or forties. And I, frankly, thought that was bananas. I have never imagined that I was going to have a forever job for a lot of reasons. in part because the fields that we work in is so rapidly changing and evolving, the skills and techniques that we use to do our work of preservation, of providing access, of describing, of creating re-use and thinking innovatively about our collections. All of those things have changed markedly in the last twenty years and even in the last five years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=786.0,839.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So we also change. We grow, we age, our lives and responsibilities and interests evolve. If you had told me when I was first starting the home video project with my friends and colleagues that I was going to still be interested in and super keen on home movies, twenty-five years later, I would have been appalled. I would have been really startled. So I'm counting on things to stay the same is a losing proposition. And even your dream job, if you do have that dream job, the one you think you're going to stay in forever, know that, I don't want to scare people, but it is Halloween, the spooky season still, and things can go sour really quickly. I've had bosses leave and realized that they were the thing that really made the job worth going to for me. I've been part of reorganization and restructuring and things that looked good from the outside and jobs I was delighted to get, and then by the end of a year, I was crying at my desk every day and turning to therapy. Which, therapy is great. It should be normalized. Therapy is also a way in which I've learned to be introspective and think about the ways in which I want to change and grow as a person and as a professional. So everybody knows that there is somebody at their workplace that has been doing things the same way for their entire career and they're annoying. We hate working with those people. The people that are dynamic and embrace change are the people that are often nicest to work with, most chill. And the people who are making steps, even if they're staying in the same job, know that the way things move around us mean that we are on a treadmill in life, and so we have to keep walking to stay in the same position. And if you want to advance, you really have to pick up the pace and make an active effort.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=839.0,961.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So what does that look like? What is what does it look like to feel like precarity is something that we, that we can push back on where we have to or want to. We don't have to accept that it's a given in all respects, that like, Well, the only thing we can get money for is short-term grant-funded positions. We need to resist that complacency. We need to advocate. And of course, let's embrace the aspects of precarity that are positive. There's a reason that the housing market depends on rental housing and that we don't want everybody to own a home. That is because if you own a home, you are less mobile. Our workforce, in order for our economy to stay robust, our workforce needs to be mobile. Our workforce needs to be innovative and competitive, as well. So, some aspects of precarity light a fire under our chair to keep learning and stay competitive as professionals. It's also, economically, it makes sense for businesses to be able to put the right skills in the right place at the right time. If you have a bunch of people sitting around just in case you might need a skill set, that costs money if you can't push that skillset around. So temporary employment or project-based employment is an efficiency that businesses can introduce and that businesses include non-profits. Nonprofit is just one kind of business model.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=961.0,1051.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So there are times when short-term employment is the right decision. For people who are learning and acquiring skills, short-term employment like internships and project jobs or service learning opportunities, they should be short. You're going to learn as much as you can learn in the course of a quarter or a semester at most internship jobs that are project-based. So get what you need and then get out. Take that ten weeks to learn as much as you can, meet as many people as you can, and then move on to something else, or sixteen weeks if you're on the semester system. I've been coming out of the quarter system environment. So yeah, precarity can be good. It gives you a graceful way to leave a situation that you're not thrilled with. If you have a dream job someplace and you have the opportunity to do a short-term fellowship or a temporary project there, yeah, it's a great way to get a foot in the door but you can also take the temperature of the place and really see if it's a good fit for you. There are some ways in which precarity is not terrible and can be advantageous. It lets you, a short-term position, lets you leave at the end if you're not super happy, with grace and dignity, and no harm, no foul.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=1051.0,1128.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So I do think that managers especially can push back on this idea of precarity as a given and a permanent state of affairs in our institutions or in our job market. That means staying abreast of labor issues, regulations, laws, and local trends. And by local, I mean local geographically, but also local in our industry. So, for instance, the gig economy is on the ballot here in California, with Proposition 16 or, sorry, Proposition 22. There are other such legislations and labor laws that really affect how we do our work in this environment. The sense that you had to pay your dues, and you turned out fine, you're in a management position now, and you had plenty of precarious jobs. Just because I've had precarious jobs doesn't mean that I want somebody who's working under me to feel precarious. So, understanding that, yes, you have to pay your dues, that doesn't mean that it has to be difficult for everyone else. Getting yourself out of the mindset that you survived something that made you stronger, and so everybody else should have to go through that. If you were in a position of power and you can leverage that power to make things better for other people. Believe me, things will be hard for others. Nobody gets out of this without some kind of struggle. You making things easier for the people who come after you, who don't have to struggle in the same way as you did is a positive thing. It's not softening folks up. It is being generous with your experience and saving people the pain that you wouldn't want to have experienced yourself. You can't change the past. You can only change the future.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=1128.0,1237.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The idea that there's a poverty mentality, particularly in non-profits and glam institutions, that we should feel lucky to get any money at all for anything. No, people should feel lucky that we are doing this work. This is important work that affects our understanding of history and our ability to change the future. So I'm thinking about things in terms of a value propositions, the idea that what we do has value, that we're not just lucky to be doing it, that people should feel lucky that we are doing it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=1237.0,1269.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And advocating actively, often, and in as many ways as you can, especially if you are in a position of security and safety. I am advanced enough in my career that, I'm not untouchable, but I do feel very strongly that I can speak in ways that other people can't. As a white woman, I can speak in ways that people of color cannot and may not be able to advocate for without feeling that they are putting themselves at risk or being the noisy one. So naming and shaming when institutions post positions that are clearly abusive of their employees or seeking to take advantage of folks who are desperate to get experience and the imprimatur of a name brand organization. When somebody is presenting an opportunity for you to learn on the job for free, reminding folks that there is no such thing as an unpaid internship, somebody is always paying. And, usually, if you're not being compensated for your labor, you're paying in terms of opportunity cost and some costs and skills.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=1269.0,1338.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So documenting the costs of precarity for you and others. One of the things that I think has helped me advocate successfully for transitioning from a contingent role to a permanent role is being able to point to the things that I would do if I were able to, if I had standing to apply for grants, if I was able to plan ahead just even two or three years, if I could make a long term plan and build relationships on behalf of the institution that will yield fruit over a longer period of time than the six months or a year, or however many minutes I have left on my contract. And the personal costs, documenting those personal costs, saying I have spent, you know, x number of dollars on anti-anxiety drugs because I am really worried about where the rent money is coming from next month. You still haven't renewed my contract. I'm getting very frightened. I understand it's not urgent for you, but it is for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=1338.0,1403.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And finally, accepting the things that we cannot change, or as one of our great poets put it, if you stay ready, you ain't got to get ready. So what does that look like? Monitoring the market. I'm a big fan of looking at job postings when you don't need a job. Look for jobs that are posted that are like the job you have. Look for jobs that are posted that are like the jobs that you want to hire people for. Treat them as a skillset shopping list, especially those rich jobs that you don't feel ready for yet. Look at what they're asking for, what do you have? What do you not have? What can you get on your own? If you're able to converse with folks who get the job, see how they match up. You can do a lot on the internet with a little bit of Google stalking. Look at the position that's posted. Grab a copy of it while you see it. Put it someplace safe and then compare that to what you can see on the LinkedIn profile of the person who gets hired for that position. How much of what they put on their resume is stuff that was in the job posting? How much of it is stuff that they're clearly going to learn on the job? How much different skills or experience do they bring? What was their route into that job or into the career? Talking to peers and colleagues about the jobs they're about to post, or that they would like to have, is another great thing to do. Speaking openly about salaries and what people are getting paid. What things are worth. I know this is a huge taboo, but it is part of how we are educated about what our skillset is worth on the market and how we value things. This is also again extremely important if you are writing grant proposals for funding for jobs. If you know what's realistic, if you know what is generous, if you can make a case for paying above market value because you know somebody is going to have to pay the price of contingency. Think about those things in different terms than we have in the past, especially when it comes to short term positions.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=1403.0,1528.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And of course, building and maintaining strong professional networks. Have a scroll through that chat pane and see who is here, see who you are in that classroom with. Reach out to folks, build connections as and when you can, and know how to present yourself. Yuri knows from experience with me, I am a big believer in the elevator speech, a really quick and succinct presentation of who you are, what you're headed for, what you're doing now, and where you think you might want to go in the future, so that you can get right into the details with folks as soon as you meet them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=1528.0,1562.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Present yourself clearly and be findable to the extent that it's safe for you. The internet can make the division between visibility and hyper-visibility and vulnerability really indistinct. So to the extent that's possible, make the information about who you are, what you do, who you work with and how you do it, as easily findable as possible. So you control the narrative. People are going to Google you when you apply for things, people are Google to you when you speak. So make sure that you're controlling the narrative and you have a sense of what is coming up first when you Google yourself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=1562.0,1600.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We are all desperate and scared. So here's a picture of a cat, my cat Sylvia Poggioli, hiding under the blankets because it's cold out there. Take a breath. It's okay. This feels like a lot, and it is. It is a lot. It's understandable that you should feel scared and desperate. And having an answer for why do you want to, or why were you applying for this job has to come from someplace deeper than just, I have to have a job, I have to pay the bills. Job hunting, always sucks. It has always sucked. It will always suck. There will never be a time in which we are perfect at matching skills and qualifications to the work that needs to be done. So doing it in a pandemic where there doesn't seem to be a future is just kind of the latest thing. You will always have some complication in your life that is making the job hunting, you know, like that extra bit special and miserable. You might be job hunting with a disability. You might be job hunting where you're trying to plan a family. You might be job hunting while you're in graduate school or when you are just out of graduate school. You might be job hunting when you didn't want to be, either because of a termination or a contract ending or other circumstances entirely beyond your control.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=1600.0,1688.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So let's take a breath. You are not alone. There are almost 200 other people in this room that are interested in how things are going out there in the world, how to navigate this difficult environment. That means there's competition. Sure, but you are the only you. If somebody else gets a job, it's because somebody else got that job. It doesn't mean that you are less than, it doesn't mean that you weren't qualified. It just meant that, you know, this is the one you didn't get. There will be another one coming along someday. There is companionship and commiseration to be had. So knowing yourself, knowing how other people, particularly folks in your cohort, your peers, the people that you went to school with and are friends with and have lifelong relationships with, they're the ones that can be there for you. They understand better than anyone else what it's like out there, how hard it is and how it can get you down. So making sure that you remember you're not alone is really, really important. And focusing on doing what you can and what's in your control, the stuff that you can change about yourself, whether that's acquiring new skills, framing your skills in a different way, or just letting yourself off the hook when you have done enough for the day when it comes to job searching.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=1688.0,1774.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, I have some tips for that I'll get to in just a moment. But in the meantime, this is what you, particularly as an audio archivist or somebody who is in the recorded sound field can do. You can cast a wide net. You can be somebody who is an ambassador for our skillset and somebody who thinks about what we do as having value outside of the traditional boundaries of our field. So having a personal presence online that works for you even while you are sleeping, namely having an online presence. Those who have been in my professional development classes before know that I'm a huge fan of having a personal Web site, this is something you canset up very quickly, very easily, very cheaply. You don't have to have your own domain, although that's great. I have SnowdenBecker.com because nobody else wanted it. I have a lot of stuff on that site, but all you really need is a description of yourself, some version of your employment history, and a little bit of a bio, and some way for people to get a hold of you. It can be a rich and deep showcase of your past work, your presentations, your publications, your projects. As I like to call them, the three Ps of professional development. You can make your stuff available and citable. Even even a student paper is something that can demonstrate your work. It's a writing sample. It's a demonstration of your ability to think. It's so demonstration of your professional growth. If you look at it now and say, like, Wow, I wrote this ten years ago, I know so much more. Put a framing statement on it. Say this is work that I did as a student, and I've continued in my role as X Y Z at Y institution.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=1774.0,1881.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You should also be doing the difficult work, this is difficult work. Looking inside is scary. Introspecting and thinking about your own work in a different way that might make it more appealing, understandable, or compatible for another job, either outside your current industry or in a cognate discipline. Thinking about what you've done, why you did it, what you liked about it, why you liked it, can help you not just find the next great job, but think about your own work in a way that is broader.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=1881.0,1919.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, for instance, when I was contemplating a departure from academia, I was frightened. I was thinking, you know, I've spent the last seven years in an academic administrator role like, you know, all I do is I teach and do stuff on a campus like. How is that useful for anyone? Like, I don't have supervisory experience, like I haven't supervised the staff. But thinking about what I do in the classroom as using a broad set of skills, a real set of skills that's really valued in the workplace. These are things that I looked at job postings and saw there was a demand for public speaking, training of staff, talent development, project management, supervising people. If there is any difference between looking at a classroom of thirty people, explaining complex skills to them in a three-hour time block once a week every week, coming prepared to back class, getting people to deliver a concrete deliverable on a deadline according to specific parameters and standards. Giving them the tools and support they need to do that job better to deliver that project better, adjusting expectations based on changing things like maybe a wildfire that closes down campus and cancels class. Those are all things that are involved in teaching, especially at the graduate level, so that was one way that I kind of reframed my own experience in a way that would be understandable to employees and plausible in the in the context of a cover letter. Not just like, Oh, well, you know, you could say I did this. No, I actually did this.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=1919.0,2025.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So the other thing that I think is really important for people to do is set realistic goals for yourself, especially when it comes to learning and productivity. That means if you're leaving school and you no longer have a framework for learning on a regular basis, try to set one up for yourself. Make those goals smart goals, by which I mean specific, measurable, actionable, relevant, and timely. We'll talk a little bit more about that in a second, and I have some resources for how to do that. But it means not, I should learn how to code, but I am seeing a lot of postings that ask for X Y Z coding set, a skill set. Or, you know, I'm going to at least dabble in this or take a Lynda.com class through the local public library. And I want to do that in the next three months as I'm applying for other jobs, so that I can say I'm continuing my skill sets. Make a calendar for yourself. Have some expectations for yourself for continuing that learning process, even when your job may not demanded of you explicitly. There is always going to be an implicit demand that you continue to learn and grow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=2025.0,2102.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So a word on that sort of thing, on the difference between I need to learn to code, or I need to have this skill set. This was a terrific tweet from Victoria Greenberg that I think really gets at the core of what job postings say and what they mean. Knowing how to parse a job posting that asks for a whole laundry list of skills and qualifications, knowing which ones are really, truly essential and which ones you are nice to haves, not need to haves. That is kind of a crapshoot. Let's be honest. My friend Lynn talks about this. Sorry, this is, A Letter to Santa, is how my friend Lynn Boyden describes most job postings. The expectation for most employers is that you will grow and learn something in the in the position. Most places have their own way of doing things, even if they're using a specific application or platform or process, they're going to apply it in their own way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=2102.0,2170.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So it doesn't pay actually to come in with deep and entrenched knowledge that you're not ready to give up. It pays to come in with a sense of, Oh, I've dabbled in this. I might not have used in a job, but I am familiar with it, and I'm looking forward to having an opportunity to apply that basic knowledge in a work environment where I can really become expert in the areas as needed. So one of the things that I like to say people should do is focus on what you do have and not what you don't. So if you are writing your cover letter and you're about to write a sentence that says, although I don't have x y experience with x y z platform that is essential to this job, I do have experience with other collection management systems, other programing languages. Just chop that although clause off and assert what you do have and say explicitly, I have experience with a range of programing languages, which means that I will be able to learn quickly on the job and become expert in the skill set that you're asking me for, as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=2170.0,2247.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This Tara Sophia Mohr piece on why women don't apply for jobs unless they are one-hundred percent qualified. It's great regardless of your gender, because it really speaks to the way we talk about ourselves and one another out of things that we think we can't do. The specific angles that employers are looking for and that applicants are thinking that they come with. So, to go back to this thing, when people say Python skills are essential, and they just really mean like, hey, you got to have some experience with it. I took a couple of years ago a workshop on PBE Core for educators. The PB Core for those who don't know, is the Public Broadcasting Core of the cataloging and data standard for, developed by WGBH and public broadcasting partners to really help describe accurately and in ample detail the kinds of material that is coming out of a production environment. And, so, at the end of that day and a half workshop, I asked, if you were posting a job that said experience with PB Core is essential, does this count as experience with? Messing around with something with a tutorial, looking at the platform's website, looking at some YouTube videos, kind of playing around with things on their own, that counts as experience with something. The leaders of that workshop said, Yes, that this workshop absolutely counts what they mean when they say familiarity with PB Core is a plus is they want you to know that PB Core is a thing. They don't necessarily require that you have used it as at expert level user in your job. Most of us are consulting the manual most of the time for most of what we do. So just being able to say PB Core is a thing. GitHub is a thing. I've played around with it. I'm looking for opportunities to develop that skill further. That is often sufficient. So reconfigure, recalibrate your sense of what a qualification is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=2247.0,2386.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You should also be open to different titles and roles. So yes, we are archivists, we are audio engineers, we are oral historians. Thinking about what that skillset requires of us and what that might look like in another industry, in another role, like what are we really bringing to the table, can help us search laterally and not literally. So searching for keywords that are related to what we do, not who we are not necessarily just searching for titles but looking for things like identity clues or personality types. I love this phrase from the Netflix Statement of Community Values, which is, No brilliant jerks. That really hit a nerve with me. I want to work for a place, whether it's Netflix or anybody else, I want to work for a place that doesn't value brilliance over collegiality. Whether or not that's true of Netflix, I don't know. Great idea to get an internship there a short-term, precarious position to test the waters. Thinking creatively about how your skills and experience can be leveraged in different environments. Talking to people who have similar backgrounds from you and are doing very different things. One of the reasons that I applied to the MLIS program at UCLA in the first place since I was working for four people who had that degree. All of them spoke very highly of the program, had mentors and professional models that they really appreciated from that setting, and they all had completely different job titles, duties, and responsibilities. They were all using that skillset like a Swiss Army knife. So anything that you can do to think creatively about things in that sort of team building exercise way where you take a plastic bottle and say, like, what else could this be used for? Sure, it's a bottle, but what else could it be?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=2386.0,2509.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I also like to think of my career path as a hiking trail. I'm not on a locomotive. I don't have to wait for a railway station to get off and switch directions. I can fight my way through the undergrowth. It might take extra effort, but if there's another path I want to be on, I get to decide that. It's not somebody else's schedule. It's not somebody else's timeline. I get to decide where I'm going, and so do you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=2509.0,2543.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We already covered this a bit. I want to emphasize there are a lot of questions about cover letters, resumes, how to write them. The short answer is that's probably a little bit more than we have time to go into. This isn't a resume writing workshop, but the best strategy I can give you. First of all, there's no right or wrong way. Look at as many resumes as possible. See what you like about them. See what works, what you would do differently. How somebody else with a similar skill set or career path is framing things like a gap in their working life due to raising kids. How they are framing their volunteer work that is relevant to their professional life and skill-building. And connecting the dots explicitly between what your desired job is asking for and what you have, not what you don't have, but what you have. What they need that they may not even have thought to ask for in the job posting. Those are all bits of good advice. And we're going to be following up with those of you who are kind enough to share resumes that we can redact. We're going to do a little bonus session that will append to the recorded version of this session, about resumes, what's working, you know, here's some great ideas. We'll make use of that generous contribution from our participants here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=2543.0,2629.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So how to advocate for yourself and, if you're a manager, how to advocate for your employees, especially if they're contingent. Document, document, document. Make a note. Keep a job journal. Just jot down a few things at the end of each day or week about what you did, what you got done, what you did above and beyond the extra stuff, the people you talked to. Make a special note of the ideas you have that you could act on or the ways in which your work is restricted by your contingency if you're in a contingent role. Visualize what a permanent role would look like for you there and be able to make a case, of value-driven case, for, Hey, for instance, when I was at the Japanese American National Museum and in a grant-funded digitization staff role, I noted that because we had digitized things and made collections available through the Online Archive of California, our collections were more visible. We were getting more requests from scholars to use the collections that we had digitized in different way, to consult them in person. There were more publications being made on the basis of those collections, and we were actually being asked to license those images for publication or for use in other projects like documentaries or artworks. So that was something where I could point to it and say, Hey, in the in the course of the last year, we have generated this amount of revenue from licensing. This is something we could potentially build for our institution if there were a digital and media archivist in the position to take that on as part of their job. It's not something that anybody has the bandwidth to do now, but this is a way that this position that I'm proposing could be revenue-neutral or revenue-generating or self-sustaining.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=2629.0,2748.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So demonstrating the value of things that you were doing, whether it is putting collections online and being able to quantify the impact that your work as a contingent person is having or that your contingent staff are having. Demonstrating the return on investment of grant funding, demonstrating the value of things like conference attendance. This is another thing that you want to document, document, document. Come back ready to share with your colleagues exactly what you've learned and found and discovered, the connections that you've made. Plan to make a little presentation when you're done, whether it's a virtual or in-person conference, share what you've learned and come back ready to share. And also take note as you go through the year between one conference in the next or the months between one conference and the next. If something happens as a direct result or an indirect result of the connection that you made at a conference, a session that you attended, a vendor whose booth you stopped by. This is all stuff that you should make a note of so that you can say, when it comes time to asking again or proposing a session, that you would like your employer to fund you to attend. Hey, here's what I got out of going last year. These are the concrete ways in which this was a benefit to me personally and to our organization, to our fellow staff members. I was able to put so-and-so in this other department and touch with somebody who saved them a bunch of money. I developed a better relationship with our vendor. I got us a discount. All of those things are ways in which you can document, advocate, quantify, and demonstrate value.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=2748.0,2844.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Always ask for more. If you don't ask, you won't get. Asking for more means if you are up for a job candidate and you're offered a salary, ask for more money. They're going to give you the least that they can possibly, their job is to offer you the least they think you're going to take in order to take the job. There may always be more. There will always be more, in addition to salary. If you don't ask for it, they are under no obligation to offer it to you. If you are an employer or a supervisor or somebody who's writing a grant proposal, consider asking for more than the bare minimum. Ask for a three-year position rather than a one-year position. Construct, be bold in constructing your asks. Be ready to back up that ask and cite the data. There's tons of data about what this is costing our field. I have citations that I can share with you. Too many to list here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=2844.0,2903.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And have mentors, have people who can speak on your behalf, have people you can speak to when you need help reframing what you're doing. It's always easier to see somebody from the outside than it is to see ourselves from the inside. So mentors, whether they're peer mentors or senior mentors in the field, can be really helpful for that. Frankly, I find students extremely helpful, too. I learned the most when I'm teaching, and so that's part of why I'm asking all of you to ask questions and contribute your thoughts, as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=2903.0,2934.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And here's some resources that are helpful for all of these things. Karen Kowalsky's book, The Professor Is In, is particularly helpful for those who are approaching academic careers or careers in academic institutions. If you are looking at a tenure track position in a library, archive, or higher ed institution, special collections departments, this book will be particularly helpful if you have a Ph.D. and are applying for professional positions in a field where you don't have the baseline qualifications. Like if you have a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and you want to become an ethnomusicology archivist, or cinema studies and you want to be a media archivist. You don't have that MLIS or media archives specialization that people tend to be asking for more. This is a really, really helpful volume for anyone, regardless of their academic background.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=2934.0,2988.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This chapter on 100+ skills that translate outside the academy is a plus. It just has really, really great wording for the things that we do every day in our jobs or in our work as students and learners that we may take for granted. We may not really be able to put into words, like why this is such a valuable skill or a soft skill that can be really, really useful in different lines of work. So I'm not saying that I have a PDF copy of that, but you can get from me, but if I did, you can get that from me, by the way on Twitter or, you know, at SnowdenBecker.com and I would consider that a fair use and professional courtesy to share. But I recommend the book as a whole just in terms of, there's a multitude of richness in there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=2988.0,3040.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Alison Green's Ask a Manager website is fantastic. It is very, very practically oriented and is all about those questions like, How do I get a reference from an employer who hated me? You know, or how do I navigate not providing a reference, asking somebody not to contact my current employer, if I think they're going to give me a bad reference? All of these practical things. Use the search function on the site. There's a ton. There is also a book that's just, frankly, a fun read. Alison Green is really practical, really a great person, and has a terrific sense of how to do a lot of things that are not audio archive specific, but are workplace specific, just surviving in a toxic environment or things like that. I love this salary negotiation page from the Kennedy Executive Search website, \"33 Things to Negotiate Other Than Money.\" There is even more of that than there's more than just thirty-three, but this is just a starting point.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=3040.0,3109.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Some more resources I really like. That introspective work, Who am I? What do I want? Where am I going wrong in my life? Have yourself a little career retreat once a year or so. So you really return to your core values. Just like institutions do strategic planning, people should do strategic planning, too. We need to redefine our mission in life from time to time. We need to examine and review and reconnect with our core values, our wants and desires. Those things change over time. That's normal. So thinking about that in a conscious this way. Setting aside time to do that rather than trying to get it done in the midst of everything else. It can feel really, really hard to carve out that time. It's totally worth it. Writing smart goals. This is just one of many examples of H.R. guidelines for annual reviews, and this is a terrific way to frame things for yourself so that you're not saying, I need to learn to code and presenting yourself with that nebulous goal that you'll never really be able to achieve. Having a smart goal and framing your goals in ways that are specific, measurable, actionable, relevant, and timely is really great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=3109.0,3186.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I also love this oldie but goodie post from December 2004 by Matt Wilcox called, Why I Won't Hire You. It sounds negative. It is positive. It can give you a lot of relief about the anxiety you might feel about, like, why did I not get that job? The fact is, there are lots of lots of applicants and only one person can win and this can give you a sense of the fact that it really has nothing to do with you. It's not you. It's them. It's out of your control. It's like people don't get stuff because they deserve it. Some people get stuff they don't deserve. You will not get stuff that you do deserve sometimes, and it's not your fault. So I find this list of things strangely comforting. It also shows a lot of the sausage of job and job stuff, especially in places where there's a committee that's doing the hiring.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=3186.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I also have this selected resources from me. A few things that I've put together that I think will be helpful for anybody who's job searching. First, a professional profile self-assessment. How visible are you? There's no right or wrong answer. There's no specific number you should be reaching. But this can help you frame your professional self and maybe get some sense of how you might boost your professional profile in different ways. I also have a checklist for references and letters of recommendation that I use myself when I'm applying for things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=3240.0,3272.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And last but not least, I have this job hunting template. So I'm going to stop sharing my PowerPoint briefly, and I'm going to reshare this job hunting template that I developed in Air Table. Using that link, you can copy and paste this for your own use. You can update it in any way you like. Expand upon it. I have put a few things in here. Yuri and Dan were kind enough to share with me some recent jobs that were posted that relate to music and recorded sound positions. There are copies of these job postings. Let's think of this as a little starter kit of jobs in the audio preservation field that you can look at, compare, use a shopping list for skill development. I also have a tab here for search strategies. So places where you find job postings. I would add to this the N.E.A/N.E.H. recorded sound grants, things that are coming through that you might want to check annually as part of their grant cycle to see who's got money and who might be hiring. This is the list of keywords that I use to search these sites, and I told myself, I'm going to search this monthly. I haven't been here lately. Maybe it's time to do that. Once I've run through this list and hit that schedule, updated that last checked field, I'm done. I can stop refreshing the page. There isn't going to be a new job there today in five minutes, that wasn't there yesterday. I can move on with my life and give myself a little bit of freedom.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=3272.0,3368.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So back to our PowerPoint. This is the very, very end of our of our me talking part. This is the time for your talking part. So there are no dumb questions. Again, please be respectful of the code of conduct. But yeah, I'm interested in your dumbest question. What is the most basic thing that you can give? Eric, I'm going to jump right in here with Eric Silverberg's question. What is an example of an elevator speech? Great question. My basic summary of an elevator speech. It's two sentences, maybe three, of who you are, what somebody needs to know about you, to understand who you are and what you do. So that can change depending on your audience or context. My elevator speech is, Hi, I'm Stephen Becker. I'm an audio visual archivist. My research interests deal with how audio visual materials are integrated into our larger cultural heritage, and my research has encompassed everything from home movies to non-theatrical media like surveillance video and police body cams. It should be something that gets people interested in your interests. That is specific, because details are doorways. You will be able to go deeper quicker in a conversation if you are saying things like, I worked for the Chicago Film Archives as an undergraduate at Northwestern University rather than, Oh, you know, I worked for an archive when I was an undergrad in the Midwest. Being specific helps people connect with you in a more specific area and in a more detailed way. So that's an example of an elevator speech. If I were talking to a different, a different audience, if I were at, for instance, a conference for law enforcement technologists, I would speak more about what being an archivist means, what my educational background is, why I'm there, what specifically the connection is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=3368.0,3502.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tips and resources for applying for grants without institutional affiliation. This is an interesting question. First of all, know what the grant guidelines are and which grants are available to individuals. Secondly, if you are applying on behalf of an organization or planning to do the work with an organization, look into the possibility of fiscal sponsorship. That's where you basically as an individual, you undertake the work of creating the projects, making the making the proposal, putting the model together, and you borrow an institution's nonprofit status and their eligibility. They in turn serve as the entity that receives the funds, manages the funds, and accepts responsibility for carrying things out. So share the other resources again. I will make sure that all of the links are listed on my website and I think we're close to the end of time. So Yuri, Dan, any last questions?\n\nYuri Shimoda","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=3502.0,3569.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes, thank you so much, Snowden. I know it was a lot of information in a short amount of time. Again, all of this will be up on ARSC's Aviary site as a recording with the appendix, addendums, of the chat transcripts, as well as our resumé review. I think maybe the last question we had was how can you know, organizations like ARSC provide assistance and support to not only students and new professionals, but those who may already be mid-career and looking to make a shift or change? We're wondering if you had any perspective or insights you might want to share. \n\nSnowden Becker","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=3569.0,3623.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, I think it may be clear from stuff that came up with the slides. Building your network and having a network of colleagues, peers, senior and junior folks in the field, a point of reference. I think that is the most valuable thing that any professional organization has done. I wouldn't be where I am without organizations like AMIA, ARSC. Places that are aggregators, that bring these birds of a feather together on the work that professional organizations do in terms of advocacy is especially essential now. As a board member of AMIA, one of the things I'm most proud of is having made the policy change that we are no longer going to post on our job listings any position that doesn't have salary information or any unpaid internships. So this is something that we as individuals and as a professional community really depend on organizations to create that sense of community-based support for that community. I think that the more people are involved in these organizations, the more they support in their available volunteer time, or acknowledge the contributions of those organizations, the more those organizations can be what we need them to be as well. These things have certainly changed over time, and I see ARSC as being an organization that's evolving, that is making an effort to address, as AMIA and other organizations are, things like diversity in our field, supporting new professionals and emerging professionals, supporting people who are coming to the field through different tracks, organizing and distilling and sharing knowledge. These are all really, really important functions of a professional organization that are not necessarily obvious until you get into it and become a part of it. \n\nYuri Shimoda","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=3623.0,3738.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, thank you so much, Snowden, for your time. Thank you to the ARSC board for their support in the webinar series. And to all of our attendees, thank you for taking time out of your day to join us. Please take care of yourselves and keep an eye out for information on our next webinar, which will be happening, as Dan said, in January on the topic of critical cataloging and description of sound recordings. \n\nDan Hockstein","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=3738.0,3768.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"For details about that you can always go to ARSC-audio.org or to find out more about us, if you're not familiar. Snowden, thank you so much! \n\nSnowden Becker","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=3768.0,3777.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, thank you for having me. It's been a real pleasure kicking this off. I'm looking forward to the next offerings and I will be in the audience next time. Thanks to all of you who showed up and introduced yourselves and had great questions too. We'll try to get to the rest of those in a less time-bound way. Thank you so much. And stay positive and vote.\n\nDan Hockstein","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=3777.0,3798.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526/transcript/34388/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Stay positive and safe everybody.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/34640/file/103526#t=3798.0,3814.22933"}]}]}]}