Guess who's spammy today?
Jun. 7th, 2008 07:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
auntiemeeshA number of the people I work with have one connection or another to librarians, and one of the parents of my current crop of kids spoke to his dad for me. His dad is a retired librarian who's done a lot of work in New Jersey and apparently there are plenty of jobs available there.
So I checked it the jobs pool he passed on to me. And it turns out that to work as a librarian in NJ, you have to have a NJ Professional Librarian Certificate. All you have to do to get this certificate is provide an official transcript and an application (which is the same information you would provide a prospective employer). Oh, and $75. So, then, the question becomes, do I have to have this certfication to even apply? Because I'm not paying out money like that in who knows how many different states, just for the privilege of turning in applications that won't even get me a response.
God, I hate job searching.
So I checked it the jobs pool he passed on to me. And it turns out that to work as a librarian in NJ, you have to have a NJ Professional Librarian Certificate. All you have to do to get this certificate is provide an official transcript and an application (which is the same information you would provide a prospective employer). Oh, and $75. So, then, the question becomes, do I have to have this certfication to even apply? Because I'm not paying out money like that in who knows how many different states, just for the privilege of turning in applications that won't even get me a response.
God, I hate job searching.
