The purpose of a resume is to land an interview. Nothing more, nothing less. It need not exclaim to tell a potential employer why they must hire you this instant, but rather, get your foot in the door to tell that story yourself.
In Karen Alphonse’s four-part article series, she addresses the various aspects of hiring and recruiting in the higher levels of the nonprofit sector. In her third part of the series, “References: How to Get Great Input, Part Three” she addresses the best way to...
One pertinent challenge facing nonprofit organizations today is leadership turnover, as described in the article The Nonprofit Leadership Development Strategy, from the Stanford Social Innovation Review. A significant number of nonprofit executives and managers have...
A trend has been taking place in the world of business, with consequences for the way nonprofit organizations recruit and grow. According to David E. Edell’s article ‘Transitioning From Business to the Nonprofit Sector’, an increasing number of working business professionals are moving or considering moving into the nonprofit sector,
No matter how senior you are in your organization or how secure you believe is your position, you would do well to take an entrepreneurial attitude toward your career. It is comforting to believe others will take care of you, and it's easy to become either complacent...
When we hear the word “leadership”, a few notions often come to mind. We may associate the word with the words “inspiration” and “motivation”, a pair of married concepts, movers and shakers in the forward march which is essential to any advancement—social, personal,...
At its best, networking is about having an influential group of people respect you and your work such that they are willing and pleased to make referrals on your behalf. Coming across as desperate, over-eager or focused to the exclusion of building genuine ties sends a mixed message of desperation and self-absorption. This is not a great selling point.
There are a handful of reasons people justify not creating a cover letter to include with their resumes. A popular theory is that the cover letter isn’t read anyway. I recently read where almost half of those hiring don’t read them. But, that tells me that almost half of those hiring do. Not one to take a big gamble while applying for my dream job, I’m not taking the risk of not including one. Besides, if it’s a required document for application, then you’re on the hook for providing one. Like it or not.