How to Build Your Professional Network
Channel: SJSU School of Information
Date: 2021-06-14

Podcast Link: https://bit.ly/2SjAbQI

Abstract:
“Networking” or “building a network” as most people think of it can feel awkward, uncomfortable, and something to be avoided if possible. The good news is that what you really want to do is create a community of colleagues with whom you have shared interests, experiences, and relationships. This workshop explores how to build your network the natural way, one that’s based on building authentic connections with real people.

Biography:
As the career advisor to the School of Information at San José State University, Kim Dority focuses on highlighting the diversity of career opportunities available to iSchool students and sharing the strategies necessary to find or create those opportunities. During her career, she has worked in academia, publishing, telecommunications, and the library fields, in for-profit and nonprofit settings, for both established companies and start-ups. Since graduating with her MLS from the University of Denver, Dority has applied her LIS skills in as many ways as she can think of while helping others, especially students, do the same. She lives in Colorado where, in a triumph of optimism over reality, she continues to root for the hometown Rockies baseball team every summer.