19 Oct

Strategic Volunteering: Ingredient #3

3# To help move yourself forward after a mistake
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Being human means we will all make mistakes. The question is, how will you learn from your past mistakes and move forward quickly in a positive direction after you make one? When I started my first company Jobs In Nonprofits, I had the dream of being President of a large staffing firm. After a false start with the business, I realized I preferred leading workshops and trainings to managing a staff. I changed the business focus from staffing to speaking and trainings. I was well positioned to find my vocation as a speaker and trainer because of all my volunteer experience leading workshops. As Tony Robbins has said, sometimes you need to lose your dreams in order to find your destiny, and this was certainly true for me. It was my passion, and my volunteer experience teaching workshops, that led me to my destiny. God knows I will make many more mistakes in my life but, as a result of many years of volunteer work, I have a great support network to help guide me back to my social impact center and move me forward after my mistakes.

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Before I was two years old, three nonprofits changed my life forever; two adoption agencies in different countries and one hospital that helped me walk for the first time. When I was growing up in Massachusetts, my father worked as an artist and my mother ran an international adoption agency out of our home. You could say, quite literally, I was raised in a nonprofit. As a result of this rather unusual yet highly rewarding upbringing, I was instilled with a strong sense of giving back from an early age. During my sophomore year at the University of Massachusetts, I had a harrowing brush with death during a school break. Once again a nonprofit (hospital) came to my rescue, and the memory of this life changing event has deepened my commitment to serve others through the world of service and social impact. In 2000 I began working as a recruiter for nonprofit organizations, first in New York City, then in Washington, DC. In 2008 I founded Jobs In Nonprofits and the Nonprofit Career Coach with the goal of “connecting the brightest hearts and minds with the best nonprofits.” We are dedicated to serving idealistic, responsible job seekers who want to have a positive impact serving nonprofit organizations . The Nonprofit Career Coach provides strategic one-on-one career coaching, mentoring, speaking, workshops and training to job seekers who want help to accelerate their nonprofit career.

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  1. Digital Capacitor :
    October 31, 2010

    my career coach is my father because he seems to know a lot my about career guidance “

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