March 2003 - Nonprofit Human Resource Staff Survey: Resumes and Interviews - What Nonprofit Hr's are Saying

During the spring and summer of 2002 the Center interviewed 20 Hr's in the nonprofit sector in the Seattle area. The agencies represented employ over 5, 000 in the Puget Sound region and increases to over 20,000 if part time, seasonal employees and employees out of this geographic region are added. The agencies represented include the environmental sector and human and social services - housing, mental health, emergency services and disaster relief, senior services, children's services. The 7 page report provides a summary of their expectations regarding job applicant resumes and interviews. The survey results will be of primary benefit to the job seeker, providing them information for becoming a better applicant and candidate.

Ten Step Guide to Career Success

This guide provides several hundred quick-to-implement and useful ideas in the ten essential areas needing attention for a successful career transition. It can provide renewed encouragement, confidence and commitment to the job search. These ideas have been successfully used by countless numbers of job seekers. It is not so much the amount of career information, or even the quality of it, that assists the job seeker, but the fact that having a few more and new options helps people feel more in control and hopeful that they can succeed in their job search.

This guide is also ideal for career professionals to use with their clients. Clients can identify through the Guide’s, "Job Search Readiness Survey," where they are stuck and resources from the Guide that they might like to use. The career professional can then develop a plan of action with them for achieving these job search goals.

Online Career Search Support

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Inspirational for those seeking meaningful work as well as those who have already found it. Perpetual calendar of daily readings for the whole year from authors from all walks of life. Perfect workplace companion.

Great holiday, birthday, or graduation gift!

Career Planning Guide (workbook)

This workbook covers the three major parts of the career planning assessment process: skills, work-setting, and values. The ideas in this workbook have been successfully used in college classes, workshops, and with individual career clients.

Promoting Principles and Profits: 
Sustainable Business Planning Guide

A workshop-tested planning guide for those desiring to start and operate a socially and environmentally responsible business, where people and principles, as well as profits, matter.

How to Start and Succeed in Your Own Consulting Business (workbook)

This highly informative workbook provides many tips and lots of advice for would-be consultants. Avoid the pitfalls. Learn the best approach to profits. This workbook is currently being used in several college business courses.

The Spirituality of Work: Purpose Beyond the Paycheck (article)

A unique article for those seeking their true purpose, vision, and calling in work and in life.

Finding Socially and Environmentally Responsible Employment (article)

A landmark article for those seekers truly serious about better integrating their work and values, their person, and profession. (Spring 1991)

Dealing with the "Holidaze" Job-Hunt Blues (article)

Five excellent reasons to conduct your job search during the November-December holidays and five ways to cope with the unique job-search blues of the season. (Fall 1994)

Attitudes That Create Career Success (article)

Attitude is a key factor in career and life success. Self-esteem, self-discipline, and risk-taking are key elements in attitude. This article explores their synergy. (Fall 1997)

When Your Star is No Longer Rising (article)

Most of us experience times in our working life when the path ahead is unclear, if not blocked. This article provides perspective on this common occurrence and the process for getting through it.

Deciding When and How to Leave Your Employer (audio)

Audio interview with Larry Gaffin for KESR's December 1997 "Creating Success: Mystery or Mastery" show. The host is psychologist Wally Wilkins. Side one is an excellent overview of the titles's subject, offering insights, practical steps, and strategies to take. Side two is the keyboard music of Seattle artist, Jeanette Alexander Roewe, with major selections from her first tape, "Out of the Blue".

Top Ten Essentials for the Job Search (article)

Provides a brief overview for each of the ten things you need to know and to do to get a job and keep it in today's workplace. This is the core information for one of the Center's central career workshops.

Respect (article)

Discusses the number one concern among employees. This article was reprinted in the National Employment Business Weekly. (Winter/Spring 1998)

Job Seeking in Today's Northwest Environmental Marketplace (article)

Important article for those looking for careers in the Northwest in environmental organizations and environmentally responsible companies. First appeared in The Daily Journal of Commerce.