Change Your Career: Transitioning to the Nonprofit Sector: Shifting Your Focus from the Bottom Line to a Better World
Autor Laura Ottingen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2007
- An overview of non-profits
- Transferable skills
- Searching for new jobs
- Updating your resume
- Real-life transition stories
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781419593413
ISBN-10: 1419593412
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 191 x 235 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Kaplan Publishing
Colecția Kaplan Publishing
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 1419593412
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 191 x 235 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Kaplan Publishing
Colecția Kaplan Publishing
Locul publicării:United States
Recenzii
""Change Your Career is an essential guide for anyone seeking to redirect their talent and energy to build a better world."" - David Bornstein, Author, How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas ""The phenomenon of the baby boom generation turning 60 provides America with new assets in the form of unprecedented human capital. Laura Gassner Otting will help you catalyze a lifetime of experience and learning into a deeply meaningful second, third or fourth career."" - Marc Freedman, CEO of Civic Ventures; Author, Prime Time: How Baby-Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America
""Laura Gassner Otting has created the perfect compass for anyone who has ever considered taking a journey towards work that is fulfilling and makes a difference in the world. Make sure you take Change Your Career with you as you walk the path towards your true calling!"" - Michelle Nunn, Co-Founder and CEO of the Hands On Network; Editor, Be The Change! Change the World. Change Yourself
""Change Your Career is a great book for any readers who want to combine their skills and their passions through work in the nonprofit sector. The book is an excellent guide to how the 21st century will see a blossoming of nonprofit jobs that are as exciting and demanding as those in the private sector — and even more fulfilling."" - Kathy Buskin, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, United Nations Foundation; Former President and CEO of the AOL Time Warner Foundation; Former Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer at America Online
""Many people have the motivation and skill to work in the nonprofit sector, but don’t have the knowledge or confidence to transition into a nonprofit job. This book is a wonderful introduction to career opportunities and considerations in the rapidly expanding nonprofit arena. Change Your Career is part instructional guide and part inspirational coach. It offers a practical overview of the nonprofit sector and shows you how you can join in important work that gives back to others."" - Lawrence S. Bacow, President, Tufts University
""Individuals ‘bridging’ thoughtfully from business to the nonprofit sector can be of tremendous value to the organizations and causes they serve, and benefit greatly as well. Change Your Career will be a welcome resource for those considering making the transition to mission-focused work."" - David L. Simms, Managing Partner of Bridgestar, Boston
""In Change Your Career: Transitioning to the Nonprofit Sector, Laura Gassner Otting shares her hard earned wisdom regarding the not-for-profit world. Her engaging style captures the reader’s imagination with pithy descriptions of nonprofit organizations and insightful biographical sketches of nonprofit managers. Charitably inclined readers will benefit greatly from Laura Gassner Otting’s comprehensive framework for evaluating careers in the non profit world."" - David Swensen, Chief Investment Officer, Yale University; Adjunct Professor, Yale School of Management
""Nonprofits can't do great things without great talent. Laura Gassner Otting inspires you to think broadly about the change you wish to make in the world and provides the tools to make it happen."" - Linda Babcock, James M. Walton Professor of Economics ; H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University; and Co-Author of Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide
""A much needed resource for anyone even considering a career in the nonprofit sector."" - Andrew Wolk, President, Root Cause Institute; Senior Lecturer Social Entrepreneurship MIT Sloan School of Management
""As the nonprofit sector continues to grow and evolve at an astounding rate, there are increasingly numerous opportunities to Change Your Career. With this book, Laura Gassner Otting offers a comprehensive guide to transitioning into the sector and provides a vital resource for us all."" - James Weinberg, Founder and CEO, Commongood Careers
""Laura Gassner Otting has created the perfect compass for anyone who has ever considered taking a journey towards work that is fulfilling and makes a difference in the world. Make sure you take Change Your Career with you as you walk the path towards your true calling!"" - Michelle Nunn, Co-Founder and CEO of the Hands On Network; Editor, Be The Change! Change the World. Change Yourself
""Change Your Career is a great book for any readers who want to combine their skills and their passions through work in the nonprofit sector. The book is an excellent guide to how the 21st century will see a blossoming of nonprofit jobs that are as exciting and demanding as those in the private sector — and even more fulfilling."" - Kathy Buskin, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, United Nations Foundation; Former President and CEO of the AOL Time Warner Foundation; Former Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer at America Online
""Many people have the motivation and skill to work in the nonprofit sector, but don’t have the knowledge or confidence to transition into a nonprofit job. This book is a wonderful introduction to career opportunities and considerations in the rapidly expanding nonprofit arena. Change Your Career is part instructional guide and part inspirational coach. It offers a practical overview of the nonprofit sector and shows you how you can join in important work that gives back to others."" - Lawrence S. Bacow, President, Tufts University
""Individuals ‘bridging’ thoughtfully from business to the nonprofit sector can be of tremendous value to the organizations and causes they serve, and benefit greatly as well. Change Your Career will be a welcome resource for those considering making the transition to mission-focused work."" - David L. Simms, Managing Partner of Bridgestar, Boston
""In Change Your Career: Transitioning to the Nonprofit Sector, Laura Gassner Otting shares her hard earned wisdom regarding the not-for-profit world. Her engaging style captures the reader’s imagination with pithy descriptions of nonprofit organizations and insightful biographical sketches of nonprofit managers. Charitably inclined readers will benefit greatly from Laura Gassner Otting’s comprehensive framework for evaluating careers in the non profit world."" - David Swensen, Chief Investment Officer, Yale University; Adjunct Professor, Yale School of Management
""Nonprofits can't do great things without great talent. Laura Gassner Otting inspires you to think broadly about the change you wish to make in the world and provides the tools to make it happen."" - Linda Babcock, James M. Walton Professor of Economics ; H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University; and Co-Author of Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide
""A much needed resource for anyone even considering a career in the nonprofit sector."" - Andrew Wolk, President, Root Cause Institute; Senior Lecturer Social Entrepreneurship MIT Sloan School of Management
""As the nonprofit sector continues to grow and evolve at an astounding rate, there are increasingly numerous opportunities to Change Your Career. With this book, Laura Gassner Otting offers a comprehensive guide to transitioning into the sector and provides a vital resource for us all."" - James Weinberg, Founder and CEO, Commongood Careers