INTERVIEW
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How do new information professionals find their feet and stay focused on their career paths?
THE job market grabs attention, attracts analysis and generates information for employers and their potential employees. Despite being an exhilarating and life-changing career point, it takes place on a well-trodden relatively transparent path. New professionals inhabit a more subtle environment, and however welcoming their new employers may be, not everything will be obvious. The effort to work out their new patch may divert them from the big picture and their original goals.
Extraordinary times
But wherever they may have chosen to go, new professionals, and the organisations that they work for, exist in extraordinary times.
Simon Burton is Director and co-founder of CB Resourcing, an information profes- sional recruitment firm which he set up in 2014. He has worked in the information sector since 2009 and was in IT recruitment before then. He remains positive about the state of the information sectors. “Whether you look at events in recent years from Brexit to the end of furlough, everyone holds their breath for two months, but we didn’t see the mass redundancies on the scale some may have feared. A lot of the dis- asters haven’t emerged. In fact, what we’ve ended up with now is a talent shortage and buoyant jobs market.”
However, he concedes there may be more changes ahead as the market finds its new equilibrium.
“I think we’re going to have a period where we’re not in growth mode,” but he tempers this, saying: “There is still a talent
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shortage across the board and people aren’t sure how it’s going to work out”. For Simon, one source of optimism is that organisations are better prepared for disaster, both psychologically and financially. “I’m not saying it’s going to be rosy – it is going to be challenging. But I think one of the worst things that happened in 2009 was that people got into a despair cycle, and if you believe nothing is going to go well for you, then you start to behave as such. But I don’t think there’s a disaster coming. Because of everything that’s happened in the last few years, organisations have more agility, the ability to change their opera- tions, negotiate with suppliers when they’re facing challenging economic situations. Also, a lot of businesses, particularly SMEs have had to be really on top of their finances. People are much more clued up now – we’ve all had to be. And it’s the same with
July-August 2022
Rob Mackinlay (@cilip_reporter2,
rob.mackinlay@
cilip.org.uk) is Senior Reporter, Information Professional.
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