Mark McCurdy runs the www.thenonprofitcareercoach.org.
Kerry Connor is the National Recruitment Director for Jumpstart, a national non-profit organization that focuses on early intervention for at risk preschoolers. They place older adults to work one on one with at risk preschoolers.
Mark volunteered at Read for the Record, a national campaign to raise awareness around the country for [...]
When focusing on social impact careers, I suggest asking yourself each morning, “For whom am I trying to make a difference?”.
Answering this question will empower you with purpose, accelerating your social impact career. Being part of a purpose that is larger than you will help lead your career on an organic path of self development. Life has a habit of bumping us off coarse now and again, and I have found many of my clients, and even myself at times, beginning to sway off course from our true purpose from time to time due to other mitigating factors in our lives. Having a well-defined purpose is a wonderful natural guide back to your purpose of creating impact and making a difference in this [...]
Powered by Passion!
Can passion really help accelerate your nonprofit career?
Learn how a search powered by passion can make all the difference!
By Mark McCurdy
Passion as described in the Webster dictionary says:
PASSION: A strong liking or desire for or devoted to some activity
When you build your job search or career search around the mission or position you [...]
Mentorships Build Tomorrow’s Nonprofit Leaders
By Mark McCurdy and Molly Zeff
With three out of four nonprofit executives expected to leave their jobs during the next five years, mentorship programs provide an effective tool to help fill the leadership vacuum by ensuring that future top-level executives are better prepared to take over.
Mentors are guides who provide advice [...]
Career transition? Focus on your mission not on your resume.
Most people start a career change by trying to re-write their resume. Having interviewed over 10,000 individuals in the nonprofit arena, I can’t tell you how important it is to start, instead, by identifying and defining your ideal career. Don’t get me wrong, a well-written resume [...]
