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EARLL Development Community

We are excited to announce a brand-new initiative, the EARLL Development Community

 

The EARLL Development Community (EDC) is a new network designed to bring early career librarians and established professionals into closer collaboration. We aim to recruit a number of professionals, with a wide variety of expertise across different areas of library services to become EARLL Champions who can support and mentor our members.

How will it work? 

We are asking for potential volunteers to spend some of your time to help hone the next generation of LIS talent. The scheme will essentially be broken into three separate areas, where you can volunteer to be involved in any area that interests you (or all of them!)

Job Interview

We'd like to establish an interview scheme to support candidates and help prepare for interviews

Notes

We're looking for mentors to share their expertise with our members

Microphone

Event Speakers

We'd like to recruit potential speakers to present at future EARLL event

Who can volunteer to be involved?

You don’t need to be professionally qualified, although we are ideally looking for people with at least a few years’ experience working in their chosen area. We are looking to recruit from all over the country, most of the work can be completed online so geography shouldn’t be a barrier.

Where do I sign up?

Read about our three core offers below, then please fill in our survey!

Our core offers

Practice Interviews

For professionals interested in signing up to be a practice interviewer, speak at a future EARLL event or offering job shadowing opportunities, please read about our three core offers below, then fill in our survey!


If you are an early career librarian who would like to sign up for a practice interview, please fill in our contact form and we will get back to you.

P Interview
  • How will it work?
    Fill in our contact form to let us know what kind of jobs you’re interested in applying for, e.g. Library Assistant (Acquisitions) or Customer Services Library Assistant etc. We will try and find a potential interviewer from our list of mentors who matches with your skillset and interests. Once you have filled in the form, we will be in touch to discuss possible dates/times for the practice interview. Interviews will take place primarily at the evenings and weekends, at the time most convenient for the volunteer interviewer, but if you are only available during core working hours, we will look into accommodating this. After the interview has been completed, we will be in touch with written feedback about your performance.
  • How much time will it take?
    The interview is expected to last approximately 1 hour with 15-20 minutes for questions at the end.
  • How will it benefit me?
    Let's face it, interviews are the most nerve-wracking part of the recruitment process and everybody feels like they could do with a bit of extra practisinghelp! Signing up for a practice interview gives you the opportunity to practice your interviewing skills in a friendly, judgement-free environment. You will also be provided with written feedback which you can refer back to when you’re practicing for the real thing.
  • How will it benefit me?
    Experience in recruitment is a core skill for library managers. However, depending on how often your team recruits, the area you work in, the exact specification of your job role and so on, you may not get the opportunity to hone those skills very often. The practice interview scheme will give the opportunity for recruiters to practice interviewing as well as our interviewees. If you’re an experienced recruiter, you have probably also had that feeling of frustration when you have the ideal candidate on paper, but they don’t quite manage to sell their own knowledge and skills in the interview. Working with the EDC on practice interviews will give you the opportunity to mentor the next generation of LIS professionals so they avoid those common pitfalls. Finally, involvement with this kind of development scheme always looks good on CVs!
  • How will it work?
    For the practice interviews we would like people with some experience in recruitment across different areas of library services. Ideally, we would like to recruit at least one expert from each area of expertise i.e. user services, research support, subject librarianship, open access, metadata etc. This would give us a wide pool to choose from when we match interview candidates with potential interviewers. We also aim for some EARLL committee members to be in the interviews as well. This will give our volunteers some support and help simulate a real interview situation. Interviews will take place primarily at evenings and weekends, at the time most convenient for the volunteer interviewer, but if you are only available during core working hours, we will look into accommodating this. After we have collected all survey responses, we will be in touch with volunteers to discuss time commitments, and to provide more information about the recruitment process
  • How much time will it take?
    We don’t expect volunteers to be called on very often to do practice interviews so it will only take up the odd chunk of time whenever we can match you with a candidate. The interviews shouldn’t take up more than three hours of your time in any given month. We would need to have a pre-interview session where we discuss the candidate’s needs and the potential interview questions. We would then need about an hour for the interview itself and then perhaps 30-45 minutes for the post interview chat where the panel will convene to discuss feedback. The feedback will be provided to interviewees in written form so they can refer back to it for future job applications.
  • How much time will it take?
    This largely depends on your, your employer and what you would be willing to sign up to. You could do a 'day in the life of’ one off training session or do a full week or fortnight, we know this will depend largely on the individual and what they can offer within the limitation of an already busy service, so we are open to anything!
  • How will it work?
    We will advertise a list of job shadowing opportunities on our website. This will include your contact details, your area of expertise and any social media handles you’d like included. We can also keep your details on a private list if you would feel more comfortable with only the EARLL committee having access to your details. When someone gets in contact with us, we will alert you to their interest. It’s really up to you how you plan the job shadowing from there. You could go for a formal in-person shadowing set up where they join you at work for a week, or you could do something more informal where they shadow you in meetings online.
  • How will it benefit me?
    It will give you the opportunity hone your mentoring and supervisory skills which will look good on your CV. It will also allow you to engage with emerging talent in the LIS profession and maybe help set someone on the road to their dream job!
  • How will it benefit me?
    This will give you an opportunity to share your knowledge and expertise with the LIS community. It will also give you the opportunity to gain experience as a speaker at public events and will help you build your own CV. We are also making the list public so that it can act as a shared resource for other event planners. We imagine a lot of networks and professional organisations have the same issue recruiting speakers and we hope sharing a public list of interested speakers will be useful for the whole community. Anybody is welcome to sign up to become a future speaker. We particularly welcome speakers who are BAME or from the LGBTQIA community.
  • How will it work?
    We will invite anyone who would be interested in speaking at future EARLL events to sign up to a public mailing list on our website. The listing includes your contact details, areas of expertise and any social media handles you’d like to include. If you’re uncomfortable joining the public list, we will operate a private one as well that only the EARLL committee will have access to. When we plan future events, we will check the list and see if any of the potential speakers match our event theme.
  • How much time will it take?
    How much time it will take largely depends on the theme of the event. We have previously had speakers present for as little as 5 minutes before taking a Q&A session, we have also had talks that last closer to an hour. We offer both online and in person events, so geography needn’t be a barrier.
  • How will it work?
    Fill in our contact form to let us know what kind of jobs you’re interested in applying for, e.g. Library Assistant (Acquisitions) or Customer Services Library Assistant etc. We will try and find a potential interviewer from our list of mentors who matches with your skillset and interests. Once you have filled in the form, we will be in touch to discuss possible dates/times for the practice interview. Interviews will take place primarily at the evenings and weekends, at the time most convenient for the volunteer interviewer, but if you are only available during core working hours, we will look into accommodating this. After the interview has been completed, we will be in touch with written feedback about your performance.
  • How much time will it take?
    The interview is expected to last approximately 1 hour with 15-20 minutes for questions at the end.
  • How will it benefit me?
    Let's face it, interviews are the most nerve-wracking part of the recruitment process and everybody feels like they could do with a bit of extra practisinghelp! Signing up for a practice interview gives you the opportunity to practice your interviewing skills in a friendly, judgement-free environment. You will also be provided with written feedback which you can refer back to when you’re practicing for the real thing.
  • How will it benefit me?
    Experience in recruitment is a core skill for library managers. However, depending on how often your team recruits, the area you work in, the exact specification of your job role and so on, you may not get the opportunity to hone those skills very often. The practice interview scheme will give the opportunity for recruiters to practice interviewing as well as our interviewees. If you’re an experienced recruiter, you have probably also had that feeling of frustration when you have the ideal candidate on paper, but they don’t quite manage to sell their own knowledge and skills in the interview. Working with the EDC on practice interviews will give you the opportunity to mentor the next generation of LIS professionals so they avoid those common pitfalls. Finally, involvement with this kind of development scheme always looks good on CVs!
  • How will it work?
    For the practice interviews we would like people with some experience in recruitment across different areas of library services. Ideally, we would like to recruit at least one expert from each area of expertise i.e. user services, research support, subject librarianship, open access, metadata etc. This would give us a wide pool to choose from when we match interview candidates with potential interviewers. We also aim for some EARLL committee members to be in the interviews as well. This will give our volunteers some support and help simulate a real interview situation. Interviews will take place primarily at evenings and weekends, at the time most convenient for the volunteer interviewer, but if you are only available during core working hours, we will look into accommodating this. After we have collected all survey responses, we will be in touch with volunteers to discuss time commitments, and to provide more information about the recruitment process
  • How much time will it take?
    We don’t expect volunteers to be called on very often to do practice interviews so it will only take up the odd chunk of time whenever we can match you with a candidate. The interviews shouldn’t take up more than three hours of your time in any given month. We would need to have a pre-interview session where we discuss the candidate’s needs and the potential interview questions. We would then need about an hour for the interview itself and then perhaps 30-45 minutes for the post interview chat where the panel will convene to discuss feedback. The feedback will be provided to interviewees in written form so they can refer back to it for future job applications.
  • How much time will it take?
    This largely depends on your, your employer and what you would be willing to sign up to. You could do a 'day in the life of’ one off training session or do a full week or fortnight, we know this will depend largely on the individual and what they can offer within the limitation of an already busy service, so we are open to anything!
  • How will it work?
    We will advertise a list of job shadowing opportunities on our website. This will include your contact details, your area of expertise and any social media handles you’d like included. We can also keep your details on a private list if you would feel more comfortable with only the EARLL committee having access to your details. When someone gets in contact with us, we will alert you to their interest. It’s really up to you how you plan the job shadowing from there. You could go for a formal in-person shadowing set up where they join you at work for a week, or you could do something more informal where they shadow you in meetings online.
  • How will it benefit me?
    It will give you the opportunity hone your mentoring and supervisory skills which will look good on your CV. It will also allow you to engage with emerging talent in the LIS profession and maybe help set someone on the road to their dream job!
  • How will it benefit me?
    This will give you an opportunity to share your knowledge and expertise with the LIS community. It will also give you the opportunity to gain experience as a speaker at public events and will help you build your own CV. We are also making the list public so that it can act as a shared resource for other event planners. We imagine a lot of networks and professional organisations have the same issue recruiting speakers and we hope sharing a public list of interested speakers will be useful for the whole community. Anybody is welcome to sign up to become a future speaker. We particularly welcome speakers who are BAME or from the LGBTQIA community.
  • How will it work?
    We will invite anyone who would be interested in speaking at future EARLL events to sign up to a public mailing list on our website. The listing includes your contact details, areas of expertise and any social media handles you’d like to include. If you’re uncomfortable joining the public list, we will operate a private one as well that only the EARLL committee will have access to. When we plan future events, we will check the list and see if any of the potential speakers match our event theme.
  • How much time will it take?
    How much time it will take largely depends on the theme of the event. We have previously had speakers present for as little as 5 minutes before taking a Q&A session, we have also had talks that last closer to an hour. We offer both online and in person events, so geography needn’t be a barrier.
  • How will it work?
    Fill in our contact form to let us know what kind of jobs you’re interested in applying for, e.g. Library Assistant (Acquisitions) or Customer Services Library Assistant etc. We will try and find a potential interviewer from our list of mentors who matches with your skillset and interests. Once you have filled in the form, we will be in touch to discuss possible dates/times for the practice interview. Interviews will take place primarily at the evenings and weekends, at the time most convenient for the volunteer interviewer, but if you are only available during core working hours, we will look into accommodating this. After the interview has been completed, we will be in touch with written feedback about your performance.
  • How much time will it take?
    The interview is expected to last approximately 1 hour with 15-20 minutes for questions at the end.
  • How will it benefit me?
    Let's face it, interviews are the most nerve-wracking part of the recruitment process and everybody feels like they could do with a bit of extra practisinghelp! Signing up for a practice interview gives you the opportunity to practice your interviewing skills in a friendly, judgement-free environment. You will also be provided with written feedback which you can refer back to when you’re practicing for the real thing.
  • How will it benefit me?
    Experience in recruitment is a core skill for library managers. However, depending on how often your team recruits, the area you work in, the exact specification of your job role and so on, you may not get the opportunity to hone those skills very often. The practice interview scheme will give the opportunity for recruiters to practice interviewing as well as our interviewees. If you’re an experienced recruiter, you have probably also had that feeling of frustration when you have the ideal candidate on paper, but they don’t quite manage to sell their own knowledge and skills in the interview. Working with the EDC on practice interviews will give you the opportunity to mentor the next generation of LIS professionals so they avoid those common pitfalls. Finally, involvement with this kind of development scheme always looks good on CVs!
  • How will it work?
    For the practice interviews we would like people with some experience in recruitment across different areas of library services. Ideally, we would like to recruit at least one expert from each area of expertise i.e. user services, research support, subject librarianship, open access, metadata etc. This would give us a wide pool to choose from when we match interview candidates with potential interviewers. We also aim for some EARLL committee members to be in the interviews as well. This will give our volunteers some support and help simulate a real interview situation. Interviews will take place primarily at evenings and weekends, at the time most convenient for the volunteer interviewer, but if you are only available during core working hours, we will look into accommodating this. After we have collected all survey responses, we will be in touch with volunteers to discuss time commitments, and to provide more information about the recruitment process
  • How much time will it take?
    We don’t expect volunteers to be called on very often to do practice interviews so it will only take up the odd chunk of time whenever we can match you with a candidate. The interviews shouldn’t take up more than three hours of your time in any given month. We would need to have a pre-interview session where we discuss the candidate’s needs and the potential interview questions. We would then need about an hour for the interview itself and then perhaps 30-45 minutes for the post interview chat where the panel will convene to discuss feedback. The feedback will be provided to interviewees in written form so they can refer back to it for future job applications.
  • How much time will it take?
    This largely depends on your, your employer and what you would be willing to sign up to. You could do a 'day in the life of’ one off training session or do a full week or fortnight, we know this will depend largely on the individual and what they can offer within the limitation of an already busy service, so we are open to anything!
  • How will it work?
    We will advertise a list of job shadowing opportunities on our website. This will include your contact details, your area of expertise and any social media handles you’d like included. We can also keep your details on a private list if you would feel more comfortable with only the EARLL committee having access to your details. When someone gets in contact with us, we will alert you to their interest. It’s really up to you how you plan the job shadowing from there. You could go for a formal in-person shadowing set up where they join you at work for a week, or you could do something more informal where they shadow you in meetings online.
  • How will it benefit me?
    It will give you the opportunity hone your mentoring and supervisory skills which will look good on your CV. It will also allow you to engage with emerging talent in the LIS profession and maybe help set someone on the road to their dream job!
  • How will it benefit me?
    This will give you an opportunity to share your knowledge and expertise with the LIS community. It will also give you the opportunity to gain experience as a speaker at public events and will help you build your own CV. We are also making the list public so that it can act as a shared resource for other event planners. We imagine a lot of networks and professional organisations have the same issue recruiting speakers and we hope sharing a public list of interested speakers will be useful for the whole community. Anybody is welcome to sign up to become a future speaker. We particularly welcome speakers who are BAME or from the LGBTQIA community.
  • How will it work?
    We will invite anyone who would be interested in speaking at future EARLL events to sign up to a public mailing list on our website. The listing includes your contact details, areas of expertise and any social media handles you’d like to include. If you’re uncomfortable joining the public list, we will operate a private one as well that only the EARLL committee will have access to. When we plan future events, we will check the list and see if any of the potential speakers match our event theme.
  • How much time will it take?
    How much time it will take largely depends on the theme of the event. We have previously had speakers present for as little as 5 minutes before taking a Q&A session, we have also had talks that last closer to an hour. We offer both online and in person events, so geography needn’t be a barrier.

Job Shadowing

For job shadowing we’re looking for mentors across any area of library services who would like to share their knowledge and expertise with our members.

 

We are very flexible with how the job shadowing could work e.g. online only or in person.

 

Obviously, this will also depend upon employers and how much of your time they’re happy for you to commit as well.

J Shadowing
  • How will it work?
    Fill in our contact form to let us know what kind of jobs you’re interested in applying for, e.g. Library Assistant (Acquisitions) or Customer Services Library Assistant etc. We will try and find a potential interviewer from our list of mentors who matches with your skillset and interests. Once you have filled in the form, we will be in touch to discuss possible dates/times for the practice interview. Interviews will take place primarily at the evenings and weekends, at the time most convenient for the volunteer interviewer, but if you are only available during core working hours, we will look into accommodating this. After the interview has been completed, we will be in touch with written feedback about your performance.
  • How much time will it take?
    The interview is expected to last approximately 1 hour with 15-20 minutes for questions at the end.
  • How will it benefit me?
    Let's face it, interviews are the most nerve-wracking part of the recruitment process and everybody feels like they could do with a bit of extra practisinghelp! Signing up for a practice interview gives you the opportunity to practice your interviewing skills in a friendly, judgement-free environment. You will also be provided with written feedback which you can refer back to when you’re practicing for the real thing.
  • How will it benefit me?
    Experience in recruitment is a core skill for library managers. However, depending on how often your team recruits, the area you work in, the exact specification of your job role and so on, you may not get the opportunity to hone those skills very often. The practice interview scheme will give the opportunity for recruiters to practice interviewing as well as our interviewees. If you’re an experienced recruiter, you have probably also had that feeling of frustration when you have the ideal candidate on paper, but they don’t quite manage to sell their own knowledge and skills in the interview. Working with the EDC on practice interviews will give you the opportunity to mentor the next generation of LIS professionals so they avoid those common pitfalls. Finally, involvement with this kind of development scheme always looks good on CVs!
  • How will it work?
    For the practice interviews we would like people with some experience in recruitment across different areas of library services. Ideally, we would like to recruit at least one expert from each area of expertise i.e. user services, research support, subject librarianship, open access, metadata etc. This would give us a wide pool to choose from when we match interview candidates with potential interviewers. We also aim for some EARLL committee members to be in the interviews as well. This will give our volunteers some support and help simulate a real interview situation. Interviews will take place primarily at evenings and weekends, at the time most convenient for the volunteer interviewer, but if you are only available during core working hours, we will look into accommodating this. After we have collected all survey responses, we will be in touch with volunteers to discuss time commitments, and to provide more information about the recruitment process
  • How much time will it take?
    We don’t expect volunteers to be called on very often to do practice interviews so it will only take up the odd chunk of time whenever we can match you with a candidate. The interviews shouldn’t take up more than three hours of your time in any given month. We would need to have a pre-interview session where we discuss the candidate’s needs and the potential interview questions. We would then need about an hour for the interview itself and then perhaps 30-45 minutes for the post interview chat where the panel will convene to discuss feedback. The feedback will be provided to interviewees in written form so they can refer back to it for future job applications.
  • How much time will it take?
    This largely depends on your, your employer and what you would be willing to sign up to. You could do a 'day in the life of’ one off training session or do a full week or fortnight, we know this will depend largely on the individual and what they can offer within the limitation of an already busy service, so we are open to anything!
  • How will it work?
    We will advertise a list of job shadowing opportunities on our website. This will include your contact details, your area of expertise and any social media handles you’d like included. We can also keep your details on a private list if you would feel more comfortable with only the EARLL committee having access to your details. When someone gets in contact with us, we will alert you to their interest. It’s really up to you how you plan the job shadowing from there. You could go for a formal in-person shadowing set up where they join you at work for a week, or you could do something more informal where they shadow you in meetings online.
  • How will it benefit me?
    It will give you the opportunity hone your mentoring and supervisory skills which will look good on your CV. It will also allow you to engage with emerging talent in the LIS profession and maybe help set someone on the road to their dream job!
  • How will it benefit me?
    This will give you an opportunity to share your knowledge and expertise with the LIS community. It will also give you the opportunity to gain experience as a speaker at public events and will help you build your own CV. We are also making the list public so that it can act as a shared resource for other event planners. We imagine a lot of networks and professional organisations have the same issue recruiting speakers and we hope sharing a public list of interested speakers will be useful for the whole community. Anybody is welcome to sign up to become a future speaker. We particularly welcome speakers who are BAME or from the LGBTQIA community.
  • How will it work?
    We will invite anyone who would be interested in speaking at future EARLL events to sign up to a public mailing list on our website. The listing includes your contact details, areas of expertise and any social media handles you’d like to include. If you’re uncomfortable joining the public list, we will operate a private one as well that only the EARLL committee will have access to. When we plan future events, we will check the list and see if any of the potential speakers match our event theme.
  • How much time will it take?
    How much time it will take largely depends on the theme of the event. We have previously had speakers present for as little as 5 minutes before taking a Q&A session, we have also had talks that last closer to an hour. We offer both online and in person events, so geography needn’t be a barrier.

Event Speakers

Our event schedule has been interrupted recently for obvious reasons, but we’re looking to get back on track. 

 

We always have a lot of difficulty finding speakers and often find ourselves going down the easy route and looking at speakers who have previously presented at other conferences and events.

 

The problem with this is that it leads to the same people always being asked and actively hinders our commitment to equality and diversity as many events and conferences reflect the pre-existing biases in the LIS profession.

 

We have often been frustrated that there are probably lots of professionals who would love to speak but never get invited because they haven’t been invited before and we don’t know to approach them.

Event Speakers
  • How will it work?
    Fill in our contact form to let us know what kind of jobs you’re interested in applying for, e.g. Library Assistant (Acquisitions) or Customer Services Library Assistant etc. We will try and find a potential interviewer from our list of mentors who matches with your skillset and interests. Once you have filled in the form, we will be in touch to discuss possible dates/times for the practice interview. Interviews will take place primarily at the evenings and weekends, at the time most convenient for the volunteer interviewer, but if you are only available during core working hours, we will look into accommodating this. After the interview has been completed, we will be in touch with written feedback about your performance.
  • How much time will it take?
    The interview is expected to last approximately 1 hour with 15-20 minutes for questions at the end.
  • How will it benefit me?
    Let's face it, interviews are the most nerve-wracking part of the recruitment process and everybody feels like they could do with a bit of extra practisinghelp! Signing up for a practice interview gives you the opportunity to practice your interviewing skills in a friendly, judgement-free environment. You will also be provided with written feedback which you can refer back to when you’re practicing for the real thing.
  • How will it benefit me?
    Experience in recruitment is a core skill for library managers. However, depending on how often your team recruits, the area you work in, the exact specification of your job role and so on, you may not get the opportunity to hone those skills very often. The practice interview scheme will give the opportunity for recruiters to practice interviewing as well as our interviewees. If you’re an experienced recruiter, you have probably also had that feeling of frustration when you have the ideal candidate on paper, but they don’t quite manage to sell their own knowledge and skills in the interview. Working with the EDC on practice interviews will give you the opportunity to mentor the next generation of LIS professionals so they avoid those common pitfalls. Finally, involvement with this kind of development scheme always looks good on CVs!
  • How will it work?
    For the practice interviews we would like people with some experience in recruitment across different areas of library services. Ideally, we would like to recruit at least one expert from each area of expertise i.e. user services, research support, subject librarianship, open access, metadata etc. This would give us a wide pool to choose from when we match interview candidates with potential interviewers. We also aim for some EARLL committee members to be in the interviews as well. This will give our volunteers some support and help simulate a real interview situation. Interviews will take place primarily at evenings and weekends, at the time most convenient for the volunteer interviewer, but if you are only available during core working hours, we will look into accommodating this. After we have collected all survey responses, we will be in touch with volunteers to discuss time commitments, and to provide more information about the recruitment process
  • How much time will it take?
    We don’t expect volunteers to be called on very often to do practice interviews so it will only take up the odd chunk of time whenever we can match you with a candidate. The interviews shouldn’t take up more than three hours of your time in any given month. We would need to have a pre-interview session where we discuss the candidate’s needs and the potential interview questions. We would then need about an hour for the interview itself and then perhaps 30-45 minutes for the post interview chat where the panel will convene to discuss feedback. The feedback will be provided to interviewees in written form so they can refer back to it for future job applications.
  • How much time will it take?
    This largely depends on your, your employer and what you would be willing to sign up to. You could do a 'day in the life of’ one off training session or do a full week or fortnight, we know this will depend largely on the individual and what they can offer within the limitation of an already busy service, so we are open to anything!
  • How will it work?
    We will advertise a list of job shadowing opportunities on our website. This will include your contact details, your area of expertise and any social media handles you’d like included. We can also keep your details on a private list if you would feel more comfortable with only the EARLL committee having access to your details. When someone gets in contact with us, we will alert you to their interest. It’s really up to you how you plan the job shadowing from there. You could go for a formal in-person shadowing set up where they join you at work for a week, or you could do something more informal where they shadow you in meetings online.
  • How will it benefit me?
    It will give you the opportunity hone your mentoring and supervisory skills which will look good on your CV. It will also allow you to engage with emerging talent in the LIS profession and maybe help set someone on the road to their dream job!
  • How will it benefit me?
    This will give you an opportunity to share your knowledge and expertise with the LIS community. It will also give you the opportunity to gain experience as a speaker at public events and will help you build your own CV. We are also making the list public so that it can act as a shared resource for other event planners. We imagine a lot of networks and professional organisations have the same issue recruiting speakers and we hope sharing a public list of interested speakers will be useful for the whole community. Anybody is welcome to sign up to become a future speaker. We particularly welcome speakers who are BAME or from the LGBTQIA community.
  • How will it work?
    We will invite anyone who would be interested in speaking at future EARLL events to sign up to a public mailing list on our website. The listing includes your contact details, areas of expertise and any social media handles you’d like to include. If you’re uncomfortable joining the public list, we will operate a private one as well that only the EARLL committee will have access to. When we plan future events, we will check the list and see if any of the potential speakers match our event theme.
  • How much time will it take?
    How much time it will take largely depends on the theme of the event. We have previously had speakers present for as little as 5 minutes before taking a Q&A session, we have also had talks that last closer to an hour. We offer both online and in person events, so geography needn’t be a barrier.
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