by: Laura Gassner Otting
October 4, 2011
By the time you step into the interviewer’s office, he or she has probably already decided that your work history as presented on your resume at least minimally qualifies you for the job. Questions thrown at you will focus both on the projects and programs you have managed as well as your hopes, dreams, and desires. Employers are as much interested in what you have accomplished as they are in what it will be like to work with you on a daily basis.
So this month we at the Mission Connected blog would like to challenge you to write a blog post sharing your thoughts about working or job hunting in the nonprofit world. This will be February’s installment of the Nonprofit Blog Carnival, a long-running monthly series where bloggers all over the web write about a given topic.
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