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And yes, this includes your student worker applicants, too. You are teaching them how they should (or shouldn’t) act when they themselves become hiring managers one day.

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June 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I had a candidate fully ghost me for a final round interview, and #mlis students and recent grads, I cannot tell you how much you should not do that (1/ )

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July 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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By: Emily@HiringLibrarians on Monday, November 10, 2025
“we have qualified candidates apply and some who are less qualified”
“We require experience working with the public, but not necessarily in public libraries.”
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November 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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By: Emily@HiringLibrarians on Thursday, February 26, 2026
Hiatus Extended, Perhaps Permanently
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Taking a few months off from this project has helped me realize that I need more time away from this project. I plan to leave the site up, at least for now, but to no l…
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February 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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By: Emily@HiringLibrarians on Friday, June 27, 2025
Help Wanted: Opinionated Folks Who Hire
Are you interested in joining my list of people who hire and have opinions to share? I’m restarting the feature Further Questions, a deeper dive into specific hiring questions, and am looking…
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June 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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By: Emily@HiringLibrarians on Friday, July 25, 2025
Further Questions: What are your favorite questions to ask in interviews?
“most of my questions are used to find out how well they can handle customer service, how interested they are in things other than reading (you know, in case someone wants to know something o…
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July 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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By: Emily@HiringLibrarians on Friday, May 2, 2025
For Public Review: Unnamed job hunter 37
This 2 page resume was submitted by a job hunter who says they are “a recent college grad using this resume to apply to public, academic, and special libraries. As well as archives, I have a …
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May 2, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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By: Emily@HiringLibrarians on Wednesday, June 18, 2025
“I try to limit my search time to an hour per day, unless i find something that deserves more time”
“‘what was a time you hit a roadblock, and what did you do?’ I always have to ask if they mean professional or in life, and then go from there.”
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June 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Via #HiringLibrarians blog, this was timely for me.

> “I have withdrawn an application before out of fear of having my time wasted by being called in to interview and present, just so they can pick their internal hire.” hiringlibrarians.com/2025/08/10/i...

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“I have withdrawn an application before out of fear of having my time wasted by being called in to interview and present, just so they can pick their internal hire.”
“Pay that is commensurate with the cost of living, specifically rent, gas/commute, and food.”
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August 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Job opening: Librarian (PT), Johnson & Wales University Library, Charlotte, NC.
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Details - Librarian (Part Time, Academic Year)
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July 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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By: Emily@HiringLibrarians on Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Winter Reruns: “Please, Please, Please Get Experience in a Library Before You Graduate From School”
This person’s main piece of advice still rings very true today: get experience in a library before you graduate. I talk to a lot of frustrated new grads who feel they have been sold a bill of…
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February 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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By: Emily@HiringLibrarians on Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Winter Reruns: “After 14 years as a librarian, I honestly don’t recommend librarianship to anyone anymore.”
It’s fairly high up in my “most viewed of all time” list, especially for a more recent post. I think perhaps it’s the quote I pulled for the title; many of the most-viewed p…
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February 12, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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By: Emily@HiringLibrarians on Thursday, February 5, 2026
Winter Reruns: For Job Seekers
In late 2024 I remodeled the site (and am still not finished). The main thing I changed was to try to organize content to be more targeted to the different reasons why people might visit. Thus, I c…
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February 6, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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By: Emily@HiringLibrarians on Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Winter Reruns: “regardless of what all the tattooed spunky hipster librarians think.”
This person does think that librarianship is a dying profession. They are particularly offended by a perceived dumbing down of the profession and ALA’s Threshold Concepts, which is an Informa…
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January 28, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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By: Emily@HiringLibrarians on Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Winter Reruns: “An Eagerness to Learn is Important on the Job”
This is a very early survey response! Most survey respondents choose to reply anonymously, but a generous double handful are ok with attaching their name (and face) to their words.
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January 21, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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By: Emily@HiringLibrarians on Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Winter Reruns: “New Hires Should Come with a Broad Understanding of Libraryland”
I’m not sure why this one has so many views, but I suspect it’s because they name library schools in the questions about preferring or being reluctant to hire candidates from certain sc…
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January 13, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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By: Emily@HiringLibrarians on Thursday, January 8, 2026
Winter Reruns: Most Viewed from 2025
This post is really a conglomeration of reruns, and I put it together in October, so it is not even a totally accurate “most viewed in 2025” list.
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January 8, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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By: Emily@HiringLibrarians on Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Winter Reruns: The Tattooed Librarian
This post first ran on June 21st, 2013 and was part of a series that attempted to address the competing desires of librarians who wanted bitchin tattoos AND gainful employment. Were the two even co…
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January 7, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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By: Emily@HiringLibrarians on Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Winter Reruns: “As a female I wish I could wear Doc Martens to interviews”
One of the purposes of Hiring Librarians is to illuminate the things that people who hire believe to be true, even when those opinions are pretty horrible. Hiring is an area where received wisdom, …
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December 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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By: Emily@HiringLibrarians on Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Winter Reruns: “We’re Hiring a Person, Not a Robot”
“We’ve hired many times since I’ve been at my institution and the one thing every person who landed the job had in common is that they had personality.  Don’t be afraid to l…
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December 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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By: Emily@HiringLibrarians on Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Winter Reruns: Most Popular Questions and Their Answers
“The top five most viewed posts of all time are not surveys, they are actually from the feature Further Questions, in which I ask a list of folks who hire LIS workers to dive deeper into a si…
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December 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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By: Emily@HiringLibrarians on Thursday, December 4, 2025
Winter Reruns: “Do not ask questions. My pet peeve. This is useless and a waste of our time.”
In my notes about this one I have written, “is this even real?” I see a lot of strange takes but this one feels pretty screwy indeed.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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By: Emily@HiringLibrarians on Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Winter Reruns: “Do not go to library school. Librarianship is a dying profession.”
“But if you are going to go, get as much technology training as you can and get a wide array of experiences in a library so you know what you want to do and have a better understanding of how…
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December 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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By: Emily@HiringLibrarians on Monday, November 24, 2025
“I have never been offered a ‘permanent’ position.”
“I obtained my first full-time professional position before I graduated, but it was only temporary, grant-funded. And all my jobs have been temporary, grant-funded.”
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November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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By: Emily@HiringLibrarians on Sunday, November 23, 2025
“Sometimes who you know hurts the job process.”
“The library/archive world is small. A few times my supervisor suddenly becomes unpopular within this world and because I worked under them I am not considered.”
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November 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM