PEOPLE
Professional Registration – a platform to change your career path
EVERYONE who chooses to under- take Professional Registration with CILIP has their own personal reasons for doing so. It can help to find a new role, or to develop your current role. It could be a platform to change your career direction, or highlight your skills, or to demonstrate your value to your current organisation. Here Library Services Adviser at Anglia Ruskin Uni- versity Library, Shanice Muir explains why she decided to become Professional Registered and gain Certification. You can start your Professional Registration jour- ney at
www.cilip.org.uk/ProfessionalRegistration. My name is Shanice Muir, my background is in education, and I enjoy challenges, adapting my skills and learning new ones. I’ve always been an academic, I enjoy reading in my spare time and participating in unique experiences, so I decided to volunteer for a few weeks at Anglia Ruskin University Library. Most of my professional life has been in education. I did a Childhood Studies under- graduate degree for three years. Then I decided to have a gap year, working as a Teaching Assistant for children with autism. I really enjoyed this job and the age range I was supporting, especially children with additional needs, so I decided to do a postgraduate in secondary school teaching, my specialism: Computer Science.
After passing my postgraduate I left teaching after eight months, because it wasn’t the right career move for me. I worked in retail for a short period before deciding where I wanted to go next with my career.
Opportunity
After just a few weeks volunteering in the library and observing how to help students on the front line, I realised I wanted to make a career out of this. Library work seemed satisfying – helping students with library questions, some
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Shanice Muir is Service Adviser at Anglia Ruskin, University Library.
manual labour, stacking books as well as administrative work. The idea of adapting to lots of different tasks over the course of a day keeps things interesting and was definitely an attractive factor for applying for a position at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU). I then applied for part time work at ARU which later turned into full time employment. My first two-week induction was memorable because we had to work remotely due to the start of the Covid pandemic. This meant my induction training was very different, working on a remote basis. As a result, it took me a lot longer to grasp the main processes of my role and included a refresher induction.
Confidence
Now I’m in a place where I’m confident in my role and have volunteered to line manage the graduate trainee, as well as teach others in a training environment. Having passed my Certifi- cation, which shows a commitment to the sector, and received feedback for my portfolio that rec- ommended me for Chartership, I am considering doing that in the future.
April-May 2024
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