I have an exciting update and a request!UpdateI've be accepted into gener8tor's social impact gALPHA accelerator program and am LOVING it! As someone who is passionate about supporting changemakers (and has a background across the employee lifecycle), I'm building out a social enterprise that demystifies and democratizes the process of finding and landing a new job in the social impact space.The requestI need to conduct 10 customer interviews by the end of next week - 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥, 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟑𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡/𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬? 𝐎𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐲? 𝐈𝐟 𝐬𝐨, 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐃𝐌 𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝𝐈𝐧! 𝐀𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭, 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐛-𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬.And to my social impact friends currently in the thick of looking for a new job, please know it's the systems that are broken - not you. You are already qualified and shouldn't have to hire a professional, take out student loans, decode secret instructions, pretend to be someone you're not, or win the networking lottery to get a good job!
Do you (or your friends!) work in the social impact space? I'd love to connect for 30 min to learn about your job search experience!https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-latham/
@joannesprague is a new member who is in the social impact space maybe she has some thoughts for you? And I know @venetian80 has been thinking about moving into that side of the business !
Thanks so much for the mention @iynna ! I have been looking but haven't been able to find much except for a list of social good ventures & companies in tech, but most of their website don't have a career page:(
It's a grind! I'd not recommend going after careers page and go straight to the people on the team / connect with them! They may not hire but at least you can add them to your rolodex and they can intro you to other people :)
Thanks @iynna! @KatieLatham I've been actively job searching - happy to connect. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joannesprague/
What roles are you looking for? :D