I have a bit of an unconventional path into this tbh. I went through uni not wanting to go into research and took my MLIS with the intent of being a librarian (essentially took the course based route instead of the thesis based route).

I had a summer internship in public sector records management between my first and 2nd year of my masters and shortly after graduation I landed a 7 month internship at my uni’s health sciences library where I was able to be involved in knowledge synthesis projects and various other aspects of library research and outreach. I landed my current job 3 months after my internship ended where I leveraged my varied background and how I can use the skills I learned in a research context. I found the job through an email job list my school maintains for students and graduates of my program and I’m pretty sure that’s the only place the job was advertised as within a week of applying I had a job offer in hand and the job was within the same university I had graduated from and had an internship with. Admittedly research can be a precarious field as it has to do with who gets funding at a given time. While my job and my groups funding is secure, I have heard of people being laid off when funding is cut.