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Seven Tips for Techies in a Nonprofit Job Interview

NTEN

By Amy Potthast, Director, Service and Graduate Programs, Idealist As a non-techie, I think I can safely say that a hiring nonprofit's current staff may have so little technical knowledge, they don't even know what skills are needed to do a job they want done. For general career and job search tips, check out Idealist's Career Center.)

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How to Interview Strong for a Fundraising Job

Top Nonprofits

CFRE, as our guest for a webinar entitled: “How to Interview Strong” or “How Interviewing is Like Asking for a Major Gift”. Since impressing an interviewer – and getting to “yes” — is similar to impressing a major donor prospect, you’ll also come away with an understanding of the keys to effective major gift fundraising.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: The Nature Conservancy

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For my role, social media is only about 30% of my job – I manage our paid online advertising strategy, SEO, and web analytics strategy in addition to social media. What do you think are the most important skills necessary in a social media practitioner? Related Links: Book Research & Interviews. ? Book Tour ?. ?

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

What do you think are the most important skills necessary in a social media practitioner? Related Links: Book Research & Interviews. ? We are investigating mobile solutions in 2011; fingers crossed that it goes through, as I think mobile is insanely important for the non-profit world right now. What is on your To Do List for 2011?

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How to Approach a Nonprofit Job Interview with a For-Profit Attitude (and Résumé)

EveryAction

As someone who has jumped from the corporate world to the nonprofit sector and back again, I’ve learned a lot about the nuances of both, especially in terms of the all-important first interview. It might be a good idea to start by answering an important question: why do professionals move from the private sector to jobs at nonprofits?

Attitude 101
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Tips To Attract & Retain Skilled Volunteers That Grow Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

Too often volunteers become people offered the menial jobs. Time and time again while working at a nonprofit, I saw people come in to help who had skills to be major advocates for the organization that were never fully appreciated, often to the detriment of the charity. Interview, interview, interview your volunteers.

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

.orgSource

In our models, we assume that astronauts are intelligent, that they’re experts in their technical areas, and that they have at least some teamwork skills. Hiring for skill is easy. It’s not difficult to evaluate when someone has the right background and experience to do a job. Our interview process is rigorous.

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