The New Economic Agenda

During the past two years, very nonprofit that I have come in contact with has faced enormous challenges. Everyone has explored where to save money. The biggest expense for every nonprofit, regardless of size, is salary and benefits. Nonprofit employees have filled the ranks of the unemployed. Nonprofits are operating with 'bare bones' staff until new funds come in. Funds must be coming in because there are nonprofits looking for new staff. Just look at the listings in www.idealist.org. Competition ought to be fierce for the positions being listed there, and there are a lot of talented individuals looking for work. Some of them come from the corporate world, and their resumes ought to be looked at. Need an event planner/manager, there are many individuals with great experience in the hotel world. Unfortunately, they don't know how to take their resume and turn it into a functional resume so that you can get a sense of the depth of their experience and a clear idea of what their core competencies are. Individuals like myself who are doing transition coaching with unemployed senior executives see this everyday. It is so easy to reject a resume. Look carefully and explore how your organization might benefit from an employee who comes from the corporate world. They just might bring the extra benefit of understanding what it means to live within the parameters of a budget and operating with a surplus.