Career Mapping For Nonprofits

Author : Nurys Harrigan-Pedersen
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781683507567

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Make Your Mark by Nurys Harrigan-Pedersen Pdf

Make Your Mark guides those who want to change their career route to create an empowering, re-warding, and fulfilling journey towards having a job they love. What would it be like to have a job that makes you so happy you could sing, where your professional goals are aligned and make a significant impact in your personal life and on your family, those around you, and the world? For over fifteen years talent management and staffing expert Nurys Harrigan-Pedersen has helped professionals create career maps that have dramatically changed the course of their lives with the belief that everyone deserves to have a job they love. Follow the insightful and practical steps outlined in this guide and create a unique map that will make your life soar to unprecedented heights. Make Your Mark is the GPS of your professional life and will help you move forward with renewed enthusiasm and purpose. The best part: This GPS is programmed by you!

Author : Nurys Harrigan Pedersen
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781642792447

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Career Mapping for Nonprofits by Nurys Harrigan Pedersen Pdf

This guide facilitates the connection between nonprofit employer and employee and makes the hiring process practical, easy, sustainable, and effective. Career Mapping for Nonprofits shows how a simple tool like career mapping can help make a team stronger, happier, and committed, thus allowing executives to return to the work that inspires them—the work only they can do! An executive may silently wish for the time when they can refocus on advancing their nonprofit’s mission. They are eager to get back to leading a dedicated team whose members are all going in the same direction at the same time. They are ready to take back their time and create lasting partnerships and bonds with each team member. Career Mapping for Nonprofits can help leaders do just that. Talent management and staffing expert, Nurys Harrigan-Pedersen shows leaders how a simple tool like career mapping can help them take their time back and guide them to create a highly engaged team. Leaders learn to spend less time dealing with personnel issues, how to lower turnover dramatically, and how to cocreate each team member’s career map. The result is a work environment that is efficient, satisfying, and engaging, one where nonprofit leaders have made space to guide and inspire employees for the success of all.

Author : C. Randall Powell
Publisher : Kendall Hunt
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 075751040X

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Career Planning Strategies by C. Randall Powell Pdf

Career Planning Strategies is designed to be used by anyone looking to enter into a new career or job field. This text will help students discover career happiness and job satisfaction. The approach of this text goes beyond the one-shot job hunt. It shows students how to be continuously in charge of their career. The focus of Career Planning Strategies is on planning. Planning involves developing a systematic approach to the direction students want their working life to take. The approach described in this book not only sets the plan, but shows students how to implement it as well. Excellent source for resume material Helps prepare students for interviews Applicable for senior seminar courses For junior/senior career planning courses

Author : Kim Klein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119209782

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Fundraising for Social Change by Kim Klein Pdf

The bible of grassroots fundraising, updated with the latest tools and methods Fundraising for Social Change is the preeminent guide to securing funding, with a specific focus on progressive nonprofit organizations with budgets under $5 million. Used by nonprofits nationally and internationally, this book provides a soup-to-nuts prescription for building, maintaining, and expanding an individual donor program. Author Kim Klein is a recognized authority on all aspects of fundraising, and this book distills her decades of expertise into fundraising strategies that work. This updated seventh edition includes new information on the impact of generational change, using social media effectively, multi-channel fundraising, and more, including expanded discussion on retaining donors and on legacy giving. Widely considered the 'bible of grassroots fundraising,' this practically-grounded guide is an invaluable resource for anyone who has to raise money for important causes. A strong, sustainable fundraising strategy must possess certain characteristics. You need people who are willing to ask and realistic goals. You need to gather data and use it to improve results, and you need to translate your ideas in to language donors will understand. A robust individual donor program creates stable and long-term cash flow, and this book shows you how to structure your fundraising appropriately no matter how tight your initial budget. Develop and maintain a large base of individual donors Utilize strategies that pay off sooner rather than later Expand your reach and get your message out to the donor pool Translate traditional fundraising methods into strategies that work for social justice organizations with little or no front money Basing your fundraising strategy on the contributions of individual donors may feel like herding cats—but it's the best way for your organization to maintain maximum freedom to pursue the mission that matters. A robust, organized, planned approach can help you reach your goals sooner, and Fundraising for Social Change is the field guide for putting it all together to make big things happen.

Author : Steven Joiner
Publisher : Idealist.org
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers for Sector Switchers by Steven Joiner Pdf

The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers for Sector Switchers is the comprehensive resource for transitioning professionals pursuing new career options in the nonprofit sector. Get indispensable advice, relevant strategies, and nonprofit-specific resources to strengthen your job search. Written by nonprofit career experts, The Idealist Guide is easily accessible and convenient to read. If you are a "mid-career transitioner," a "re-careerer," an "encore careerist," a "bridger," or a "sector switcher" this book is meant for you. Topics Include: - Why Nonprofit? - Myths and Facts About Nonprofits - Nonprofit Hiring Practices - The Challenge of Sector Switching - Self and Career Assessment - Networking Strategies - Evaluating Organizational Culture - Negotiating the Best Deal - Starting Your Own Nonprofit - Nonprofit Speak 101 Written by the staff of Idealist.org with guest sections by other nonprofit experts. Idealist.org is the leading organization in the field of nonprofit careers. Idealist.org runs the website where people and organizations can exchange resources and ideas, locate opportunities and supporters, and take steps to turn their good intentions into action.

Author : Meg Busse,Steven Joiner
Publisher : Idealist.org
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers for First-time Job Seekers by Meg Busse,Steven Joiner Pdf

"The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers for First-time Job Seekers is a comprehensive resource for emerging professionals pursuing their first position in the nonprofit sector. Whether you are a current student, a recent graduate, or someone entering the workforce for the first time, this book will provide you with indispensable advice, relevant strategies, and nonprofit-specific resources to strengthen your job search. Written by nonprofit career experts, The Idealist Guide is designed to be easily accessible and convenient to read." -- Amazon.com viewed October 9, 2020.

Author : Trista Harris,Rosetta Thurman
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780557725830

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How to Become a Nonprofit Rockstar by Trista Harris,Rosetta Thurman Pdf

Do you feel stuck in your nonprofit career? Unsure how to take that next step? How to Become a Nonprofit Rockstar is an accessible, do-it-yourself map of how to navigate the nonprofit sector and gives you the tools that you need to move from entry level to leadership.This book is designed for professionals who want to build a meaningful and rewarding nonprofit career. How to Become a Nonprofit Rockstar is based on the authors' experiences as well as interviews with nonprofit rockstars who have supercharged their careers.You'll learn how to develop meaningful nonprofit experience, build a strong network, establish a strong personal brand, achieve the elusive work/life balance, and move on up in your career.

Author : Ginny Clarke,Echo Garrett
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781600379918

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Career Mapping by Ginny Clarke,Echo Garrett Pdf

Plot out your path to a rewarding work life. The world of work is changing with head-spinning speed. Now more than ever, you need to find your footing—and design your personalized road map to job satisfaction and career success. Career Mapping offers a template for figuring out who you are and what you can offer to the work world. Inspired by the author’s own experiences as a college recruiter and executive recruiter, as well as a woman who broke through to the executive ranks in two male-dominated industries, it addresses an array of situations, from just starting out to navigating the corporate maze to launching a new business or anticipating retirement. It offers case studies of people at different stages of their careers, and provides a step-by-step process for customizing your own job hunting and career management strategies. With thought-provoking questions; candid revelations from her own inspiring journey; and vital advice from Ginny Clarke’s experiences interviewing, recruiting, and coaching thousands of professionals and executives, Career Mapping explains the oft-misunderstood executive search process, demystifies how you can make yourself a more desirable job candidate, and reveals how to avoid the devastating pitfalls that have derailed careers.

Author : Lilly Cohen,Dennis R. Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015018513930

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Careers for Dreamers & Doers by Lilly Cohen,Dennis R. Young Pdf

A comprehensive career guide to management careers in the nonprofit section. Helps you to assess your interests and define your skills, and give you the tools you need to develop a rewarding career in education, health care, social services, the arts, or philanthropy. Includes job search strategies, what employers look for, how to write a resume, and how to prepare for an interview.

Author : Byron Anderson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Career education
ISBN : 1560243031

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Library Services for Career Planning, Job Searching, and Employment Opportunities by Byron Anderson Pdf

Here is a valuable book filled with new ways to strengthen and utilize library career planning services and job-searching sources to better serve library patrons and career planners. Library Services for Career Planning, Job Searching and Employment Opportunities is the only resource available on the library's role in helping job searchers and career planners. An increase in the need for career and job information caused by a volatile labor market and current economic trends has created a need for both librarians and job counselors to help patrons take full advantage of library sources and services. Taking a broad approach from career counseling theory to recommendations of major sources of career and job information, this much-needed book covers subjects such as cooperative programs between librarians, career planning professionals, and job search counselors and the evaluation of career-related materials. This one-of-a-kind volume emphasizes the constant demand for career and job information regardless of economic conditions. Librarians will learn how to act as intermediaries to help patrons locate career and employment sources dispersed throughout the collection, demonstrate their proper use, and guide them to additional useful sources. Specific chapters explain how to expand career and job services with only a few new, low-cost resources, by networking with other community resources and developing a strong core collection of the best resources available. Other groundbreaking topics analyzed include employment and labor market trends for the 1990s, unemployment services in libraries, evaluation criteria for career resources, essential career planning and employment materials, specialized collections for relocation literature, and employment of persons with disabilities. This book is necessary reading for librarians who maintain career resources in their collections, career plannng and job counselors who need to learn how to take better advantage of library services, and adult education professionals involved in vocational education.

Author : Shelly Cryer
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781618589231

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The Nonprofit Career Guide by Shelly Cryer Pdf

FINALIST 2008 Book of the Year Awards, Career Category, ForeWord Magazine A must read for anyone hoping to launch a nonprofit career! Nonprofits need talented, creative people with all types of skills and experiences. The Nonprofit Career Guide will help you find the best opportunity for you and your interests. This hands-on guide is filled with practical advice from real people working at all levels of diverse nonprofits. In detailed profiles, you'll find out what their work is like, the career paths they followed, and what they look for when hiring new staff. Besides getting a sense of the scope and range of work opportunities, you'll find the most up-to-date information on how to: Prepare for a nonprofit career Conduct targeted job searches and network effectively Handle interviews with aplomb Write persuasive cover letters and stellar resumes Negotiate a competitive compensation package. With The Nonprofit Career Guide, you'll get the competitive edge you need to land a great first job and build a rewarding career in the nonprofit sector. Published by Fieldstone Alliance in collaboration with American Humanics.

Author : William Lewis,Carol Milano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1987-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:35128000939106

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Profitable Careers in Nonprofit by William Lewis,Carol Milano Pdf

This handy volume provides an honest look at the realities of a career in nonprofit, where 23% of America's workforce is employed. Explains the structure of the nonprofit corporation, types of groups comprising this sector, major areas of job responsibility, and how to target, explore, and get a job. Covers cultural, religious, educational, health and medical, social service, environmental, international, civic, and animal welfare industries. Corporate career changers, new college graduates, mothers re-entering the job market, and others will discover a great diversity of opportunities, ranging from public relations, publications, finance, office management, through program departments, development offices, and executive directorships. Includes a section on the biggest nonprofit prospect of all: the public sector. Looks at earnings at entry, mid-career, and senior levels. Includes an appendix of job information sources, such as hotline telephone numbers, associations, publications, special libraries, etc.

Author : WetFeet (Firm)
Publisher : WETFEET, INC.
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : 9781582077574

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Careers in Nonprofit and Government Agencies by WetFeet (Firm) Pdf

Author : Darian Rodriguez Heyman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118017944

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Nonprofit Management 101 by Darian Rodriguez Heyman Pdf

A comprehensive handbook for leading a successful nonprofit This handbook can educate and empower a whole generation of nonprofit leaders and professionals by bringing together top experts in the field to share their knowledge and wisdom gained through experience. This book provides nonprofit professionals with the conceptual frameworks, practical knowledge, and concise guidance needed to succeed in the social sector. Designed as a handbook, the book is filled with sage advice and insights from a variety of trusted experts that can help nonprofit professionals prepare to achieve their organizational and personal goals, develop a better understanding of what they need to do to lead, support, and grow an effective organization. Addresses a wealth of topics including fundraising, Managing Technology, Marketing, Finances, Advocacy, Working with Boards Contributors are noted nonprofit experts who define the core capabilities needed to manage a successful nonprofit Author is the former Executive Director of Craigslist Foundation This important resource offers professionals key insights that will have a direct impact on improving their daily work.

Author : Dennis Dresang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134816507

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Personnel Management in Government Agencies and Nonprofit Organizations by Dennis Dresang Pdf

Includes coverage of issues relating to every level of government (federal, state, and local agencies) as well as in nonprofit organizations Examines the latest management theories (such as employee engagement and motivation) and current issues including disability and LGBT inclusivity, privatization, merit systems, and family and medical leave The discussion is rooted in public policy issues, providing students with a better understanding of the actors involved and the broader context of personnel administration The focus on the human resource issues is important to the work of all managers--not just personnel specialists Abundant pedagogical tools, including learning objectives, summaries, and discussion questions, guide student understanding and foster critical thinking Exercises and case studies throughout the book can be assigned for individual or group work, helping students apply public personnel management concepts to real world situations.