"Career Perspectives" Featuring Mid-Career Professionals

10/09/20 • 68 min

In order to better understand how we move forward with our careers, sometimes we have to look back. AND, sometimes we also have to look sideways. Consequently, #ARCSchat in October would like to unveil a new series this season called "Career Perspectives" where we hold a round table discussion with our professional colleagues about their own careers at various stages: emerging museum professionals, mid-career, and late-career.
On October 6 we hosted with three mid-career professionals representing different types of collections from different parts of the world about how they got into the field, what their expectations were at the beginning, and what their expectations are now going forward.
See the video, transcript, and live chat
https://youtu.be/7hUGZxhn2qQ Panel: Kaia Black: Special Projects and Programs Manager at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Jen Kaines: Head of Collection Services at Royal Armouries, Leeds, UK Chakira Santiago: Chief Registrar at the Museum of History, Anthropology, and Art at the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan.

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Buddha says "Wear your ego like a loose-fitting garment." In these crazy times of furloughs, layoffs, lockdowns, and unionizing (to name a few), #ARCSchat returns to un-tailor your work attire with a second season of their YouTube Live chat with a conversation with Joan Baldwin, the 2019 ARCS conference keynote speaker, author of Leadership Matters, and prolific blogger. Joan will help us undress the institutional unrest going on at the moment and help us walk the catwalk to becoming our own best advocates. Resources referenced in this episode: Leadership Matters Blog LeadershipMatters1213.wordpress.com Gender Equity in Museums Movement (GEMM) https://www.genderequitymuseums.com/ MIT Living Wage Calculator https://livingwage.mit.edu/ Submit your phone recording for the "A Day in the Life" feature on the podcast to: [email protected] or call 847-440-4294 and leave a message with your story. Tell us 1. Who you are 2. Where you work 3. Your unique experience

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