Idealist Webinar Series #4: "Passion is not enough: tips to leverage your passion and professional experience into a nonprofit career" Webinar and Expert Panel

Passion is not enough: Tips to leverage your passion and professional experience into a nonprofit career

This webinar is designed for career service professionals who work with alumni. We discuss ways to help experienced professionals use Idealist tools in their job searches as well as resources that career service offices can offer to this audience.

Topics Include:

• "But I'm so well qualified, why is no one calling me back?"
• "I know what to do to clean this place up!" and other mindsets you need to change ASAP
  
• Talking the talk and walking the walk: for-profit, nonprofit, and government work cultures
• Transferable skills, passions, and community experience

Participants will receive a handout with an overview of Idealist's resources as well as an "alumni-ready" Powerpoint presentation to offer on your campus.

Presenters:

Steven Pascal-Joiner is the Director of the Career Transitions Program at Idealist. He works with professionals in career transition and is the author of The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers for Sector Switchers. He is also the manager of the Mid-Career Transitions Resource Center. He speaks nationally to both nonprofit job seekers with previous work experience as well as those career services professionals who counsel them.

Meg Busse is the Director of the Nonprofit Career Transitions Program at Idealist.  She is the author of The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers for First-Time Job Seekers and works primarily with students who are seeking their first jobs after college.  One of the best parts of her work is that she gets to travel around the country talking with students and career advisors about nonprofit career opportunities in general, and in particular about the fact that any job that's in the for-profit sector is also available in the nonprofit sector (even stockbroker).

"Passion is not enough" webinar participants are also invited to attend our Expert Panel on May 27th at 1:00 pm EST for no additional charge. During this expert panel webinar, alumni career service professionals and other experts from the field will talk about best practices for working with alumni, resources that they use to make their job easier, and other tips to help your alumni with a limited amount of time and money. The panelists are:

• Linda Arra: Director, LaFayette College Career Services Center
• Colleen Soto: Assistant Director, DePaul University Alumni Relations
  
• Donna Davidson: Executive Search Director, The Bridgespan Group
  
• David Bank: Vice-President, Civic Ventures
  
• Laura Gassner Otting: Founder and President of Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group. Author of Change Your Career: Transitioning to the Nonprofit Sector

After you register for the "Passion is not enough" webinar, you will receive a seperate email with log-in information for the Expert Panel. If the email you use to register for the webinar is NOT the email you wish to use to receive the login information, please let us know so we can make sure you get the appropriate information on time.

We hope that you will invite your colleagues to join you for these events. However, each office should only register once and then join the seminars from one computer.

Cancellation: If you sign up for the webinar and later encounter a scheduling conflict, a full refund will be provided if you cancel by May 7th (5:00 pm PST). Please email us at webinars{at}idealist.org for more information.

Thursday, May 14, 2009 from 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (ET)

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