Interplay & Compatibility: Using Soft Skills to Ace Interviews, Get Hired, and Excel at Work
Channel: SJSU School of Information
Date: 2018-11-01

Podcast Link: http://amazon.sjsu.edu/slisPod/colloquia/sp18/careerSicaMurphySP18

Abstract:
Public library leaders Heidi Murphy and Deb Sica share their interview, hiring, and career insights regarding the importance of soft skills to succeeding in the LIS world. Find out from insiders not only what strengths hiring managers are looking for when they’re interviewing you, but also why those strengths are so critically important to libraries and their missions.

Biography: Deb Sica
Deb Sica, MFA, MLIS, has been in research, education and libraries since 1993. She has been an archivist, an academic and a public library administrator in both the Texas Gulf Coast and San Francisco Bay Area. She spent the last decade in public libraries working to transform dated, discordant policy into socially just, fully inclusive practice. Sica has been politically active for more than 25 years and continues the fight for equity, diversity and inclusion in libraries and in life. She currently serves on the Executive Board of GLBTRT, is a member of the Freedom to Read Foundation and is part of Jim Neal’s ALA Presidential Advisory Council. She now serves as the deputy county librarian for Alameda County Library.

Biography: Heidi Murphy
Heidi Murphy is currently the director of library and recreation services for the City of Pleasanton. She has been involved in the library field for more than 15 years, bringing experience from a wide range of library systems along with her passion for people and people's stories. Murphy has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature from the University of California Santa Cruz and a Master of Library and Information Science degree from San José State University. She also serves on the executive committee for the Pacific Library Partnership.