Tips for Job Seeking When a Pregnancy, a Handicap, or Other Personal Needs Are Part of the Package
JOB MARKET By Alicia Abell As he interviewed candidates recently for a communications job at Mercy Housing, Rich Sider, the group’s vice president of human resources, saw a top choice quickly emerge. There was only one sticking point: She was six months pregnant. Because the candidate specifically…
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Practical Tips for New-Employee Orientation
IN THE TRENCHES By Alicia Abell Unlike many employees, Tricia Cornell doesn’t recall orientation day at her current job as pointless or boring. At the Center for Victims of Torture, in Minneapolis, where she has worked for the last year and a half as a communications specialist, staff members…
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Credit Unions Offer Employees Financial Options at No Charge to Employers
JOB MARKET By Alicia Abell A year ago, Ronda Sue Fruit discovered a way to make her coworkers at a nonprofit Philadelphia daycare center happy. Best of all, it didn’t cost her employer a dime. Last year, Ms. Fruit, human-resources administrator at Federation Early Learning Services, enrolled the…
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When Charities Use Personality Assessments at Hiring Time, Job Seekers Find No Easy Answers
JOB MARKET By Alicia Abell When Kris Huston applied for her job as director of human resources at the Blood Center of Iowa, in Des Moines, she was asked to take a personality-assessment test. She was skeptical. In her 15-year career in administration, she had never used the tests before. “As an HR…
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A Guide to Finding Bilingual Jobs at Charities
Audrey Treasure is one frustrated job seeker. She’ll graduate this spring from Indiana University at Bloomington with a degree in Spanish and a certificate from the American Humanics program, which concentrates on nonprofit management skills -- an educational combination that should give her a…
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How to Legally – and Humanely – Dismiss Nonprofit Employees
Responsible nonprofit managers know that, sometimes, an employee must be fired for the good of the organization. For those employers faced with the unpleasant task of lowering the boom, here’s a guide to doing it.
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What a Master’s in Business Can Mean for a Career in Charities
TOOLS AND TRAINING By Alicia Abell When John Vogel graduated from Harvard Business School in 1980, job seekers who held master’s SAMPLES OF E-NEWSLETTERS:Where M.B.A. Holders Wind Up in the Nonprofit Field of business administration degrees were regarded with suspicion by nonprofit employers, he…
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