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Core Competency: Personal and Professional Growth

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Competency 1.16 state to “actively pursues personal and professional growth through continuing education.” Whenever you enter the professional work of any field, you must first decide what your career goals will be for 5 and 10 years ahead. With this, you must also seek to gain insight on how you will contribute to your profession as well as decide what legacy, should you retire, would you want to leave for the rising generation. As you enter into this profession of law librarianship, there is one thing that will be required of you to do which is to provide your employer with your personal and/or professional goal; that is what you would like to accomplish for the upcoming fiscal year. This usually includes training hours and topics that you must complete during that time frame as well. We each go into the field knowing we have classroom knowledge of what to expect “on the job” but know for certain that we have a lot of learning to do that requires some of us coming out of our comfort zone and reaching out to our colleagues, organizations and associations that we have become linked to obtain this form of learning skills that will enhance our professional and for some personal growth. Not only will you realize what you have learned six months ago is outdated and there is “a better way of doing things,” you will learn how to step out, step up and step into developing your professional skills to compete with the high standards that this profession expect. To follow through with

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