{"id":6075,"date":"2017-11-03T13:04:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T17:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=6075"},"modified":"2017-11-03T13:04:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T17:04:30","slug":"inform-purdue-pate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/03\/inform-purdue-pate\/","title":{"rendered":"Inform Purdue: Information Literacy and the Job Search"},"content":{"rendered":"

An assignment to find research about a particular drug ultimately changed the way Cameron Pate–a 2017 Purdue University pharmaceutical sciences<\/a> graduate–searched for information during his studies at Purdue.<\/p>\n

Pate, who recently started a new job with the Dow Chemical Company in Indianapolis, said, for this particular assignment, when he had exhausted Google, he headed to Purdue Libraries.<\/p>\n

“Thankfully, personnel at Purdue Libraries showed me the access I had to vast electronic resources, including several well-respected research article databases, because of my Purdue student status. This fundamentally changed how I would search for information the rest of my college career and helped me tremendously,” he noted.<\/p>\n

Pate also learned to apply his information literacy skills to other aspects of his college career, including how to get the most of out a job search. As part of the Inform Purdue Information Literacy campaign, Pate talks about how he used information to maximize his job search in the video below.<\/p>\n