by Karen Alphonse | Feb 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
Your trusted Chief Operations Officer has taken a dream job at an international organization, and your local not-for-profit needs to rehire someone to take her place. What steps can you take to create a space for her successor? How do you draft the position...
by Karen Alphonse | Feb 6, 2012 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers
This series covered all aspects of the reference process. Part One covered working with references as they relate to the candidate. Part Two focused on engaging with the references themselves, and Part Three put the ideas into practice through the reference check...
by Karen Alphonse | Jan 23, 2012 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers
In parts One and Two of this four-part series, I outlined the “homework” required to best prepare yourself, a candidate and a reference for a formal reference interview. In this entry, details of the actual process, from questions to ask to delivering the results, are...
by Karen Alphonse | Jan 16, 2012 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers
In Part One of this series, I outlined the homework I do with regard to references before placing the formal reference checking call as it relates to the candidate. Today, that homework process continues to unfold with a focus on the references. Preparing the...
by Karen Alphonse | Jan 9, 2012 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers, Management
In this series, we have taken a closer look at the pieces that comprise a total search process from Defining the Opportunity to Identifying Talent. In this last installment of my three-part series, the focus is on initiating the search process and the role of a...
by Karen Alphonse | Jan 2, 2012 | Advice, Job Seekers, Uncategorized
Do you want to see a “perfect” resume? Many people would so as to emulate it. However, there is no such thing. A great resume is a work in progress – a snapshot of where you are professionally and the journey that brought you there. A good not-for-profit resume is...
by Karen Alphonse | Dec 12, 2011 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers, Management
Conducting a search for new talent is a cumbersome task. Trying to decide whether or not to involve a recruiter is another important, if not intimidating, aspect of the process. In my previous post, I outlined two specific areas of consideration with regard to...
by Karen Alphonse | Dec 5, 2011 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers, Recruiters
Many organizations are familiar with using references in the final phases of search to support or eliminate one winning candidate. References can serve equally critical functions, however, beyond giving you data about your proposed “winner.” In this four-part series,...
by Karen Alphonse | Nov 14, 2011 | Advice, Featured, Management, Recruiters
Your organization can directly benefit by partnering with an experienced recruiter to conduct specific key search functions. Recruiters can help attract talent, screen likely candidates and check the background and work history of your preferred candidate(s) in...
by Sandra Sims | Nov 7, 2011 | Featured, Management
Does your nonprofit organization have a Human Resources Department? Or, does it have even just one dedicated HR professional? If you work in the nonprofit sector, it may not come as a surprise to you that the majority of small nonprofits do not have one staff member...
by Sandra Sims | Oct 25, 2011 | Featured, Job Seekers
While social media is a great way to network with colleagues during a job hunt, remember not to focus all of your efforts online. There are many places for you to connect with others in the community. According to the 2011 Nonprofit Employment Trends Survey from...
by Sandra Sims | Oct 24, 2011 | Management, Recruiters, Uncategorized
In a year of higher-than-average unemployment, many working in nonprofits are finding they are providing increasing levels of services to their clientele. For example, homeless shelters have seen a dramatic increase in first-time homeless families which is often...
by Carmel Napolitano | Oct 11, 2011 | Featured, Management
This summer, the New York Times had a piece about how über-philanthropists Pierre Omidyar and Peter Lewis were keen on requiring leaders and other staff of organizations they fund to take management courses. As expected, there’s a wide range of ideas – if not...
by Laura Gassner Otting | Oct 4, 2011 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers
Interview PreparationTo Be Asked or Not To Be Asked: These Are the QuestionsBefore you step over the threshold of an interviewer’s office door, you better be prepared to impress them with well thought out answers to questions you haven’t even yet heard....
by F. Jay Hall | Sep 26, 2011 | Featured, Job Seekers
HEADHUNTERS: Who are they – what do they do – are they for you? Simply said, headhunters are recruiters, but not all recruiters are headhunters. Another term for the work headhunters do is “Executive Search” as headhunters literally search...
by Fredia Woolf | Aug 25, 2011 | Advice, Featured, Management
From my experience working with leaders of all kinds, I have noticed many different styles and approaches can be effective depending on the context, situation, organization or personalities involved. But, there seem to be four essential characteristics that always...
by F. Jay Hall | Aug 23, 2011 | Advice, Featured
How many times do we have a problem in front of us, and the solution is so painfully simple that it takes what seems like forever to figure out? This happened the other night at our house. Our family was enjoying a television show when someone requested, with regard...
by F. Jay Hall | Aug 19, 2011 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers
I honestly cannot believe that I look back at certain aspects my life and know somebody, somewhere considers them old fashioned. I’m not talking about the fact that we used to have to get up, go over to the television and turn a knob to change stations, nor am I...
by F. Jay Hall | Aug 16, 2011 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers, Management
I have a really big pet peeve. I try not to let it get me, but it does, and it just happened here. My husband was singing along to a song when the lyrics went from English to Spanish. He continued on without pause even though he could not keep up with the beat to...
by F. Jay Hall | Aug 12, 2011 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers
Where were you when you first heard your parents were 40 years old? (Indeed, this moment is burned in our memories with many other “Where were you when’s …”) I was in our family’s garage with my friend Lisa swapping what felt forbidden information about our...
