by F. Jay Hall | Sep 26, 2010 | Featured, Twitter Updates
Executive Director, Brooklyn Public Library, Brookyln, NY http://t.co/UdpgZGa #NYC #jobs #nonprofit # Dean Central Michigan University Mt Pleasant, MI http://cot.ag/c3EBXQ #academic #highered #jobs # Director of Development, NY Regional Office American Committee for...
by Fredia Woolf | Sep 24, 2010 | Advice, Job Seekers, Management
Bob Johansen, a professional Forecaster, authored a book called “Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World”. He wrote about the VUCA forces operating in the world today, referring to the increasing amount of volatility,...
by Carmel Napolitano | Sep 22, 2010 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers
There is good reason beyond seeking a mission driven career to consider making a move to work in the nonprofit sector. Despite the economic downturn of the last two years, the sector continues to grow. In 2000, the number of nonprofits was about 800,000. By 2009, the...
by Carmel Napolitano | Sep 15, 2010 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers
Thanks to such people as Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Angelina Jolie, philanthropy and nonprofits now enjoy a glamorized reputation. I can’t count the number of times a disaffected accountant, investment banker or lawyer has said to me that they now dream of...
by Carmel Napolitano | Sep 9, 2010 | Advice, Featured, Management, Recruiters
Engaging an executive recruiting consultant for your organization’s position search shouldn’t cause you anxiety. You hired a search consultant to ease your anxiety. So, take a look at my Four R’s to get some pointers on how to make the most of the...
by Fredia Woolf | Sep 3, 2010 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers, Management
I am working with a experienced client who just accepted a leadership position with an organization on the other side of the country. To displace his rumbling sense of guilt at his act of “disloyalty” – did he place his own career interests ahead of his allegiance...
by Fredia Woolf | Aug 27, 2010 | Advice, Job Seekers, Management
I am on vacation this week on Cape Cod. It has been a very hot summer, and I was looking forward to a pleasant week of relaxation, enjoying the warm sun, long walks on the miles of golden beaches, biking along the sand dunes and indulging in fresh seafood and summer...
by F. Jay Hall | Aug 22, 2010 | Featured, Twitter Updates
#nonprofit #jobs Director of Education Policy Math for America New York, NY http://bit.ly/9snQIB #nyc # #nonprofit #job sDirector of Education Policy Math for America New York, NY http://bit.ly/9snQIB #nyc # Assistant Vice President, Finance and Administration,...
by Fredia Woolf | Aug 20, 2010 | Advice, Job Seekers
I am reading the novel Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey. It is based on the travels of a young French nobleman, Alexis de Tocqueville, who visited the United States in the early 1800s and wrote about the young country. His observations about the American...
by Carmel Napolitano | Aug 17, 2010 | Advice, Featured, Management, Recruiters
Organizations large and small benefit from the use of retained executive searches. Each nonprofit, and even each department within a nonprofit, has a unique set of leadership needs, and retained search is one way to plan an organization’s future. For the use of...
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