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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

The 7 Top Websites for Nonprofit Jobs | Next Avenue - 0 views

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    blog by Nancy Collamer, March 22, 2013, on best websites for finding encore careers.
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The 21 Best New Tech Products for People Over 50 - Next Avenue - 0 views

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    review of technology for 50+ age group
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What is the best open source job board software? - Quora - 0 views

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    Identifies Jobsbox, jobberbase, Jobify (wordpress theme), and Jobify as open source job board platforms
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Nonprofit-Corporate Partnerships: A New Framework | Stanford Social Innovation Review - 0 views

  • potential for quickly scaling solutions
  • four types of private-sector stakeholders who are involved in securing partnerships.
  • Each has access to different resources, and therefore a different role
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  • The economic buyer.
  • The user buyer.
  • The technical buyer.
  • The coach
  • The third challenge is how to speak to businesses so that they respond. Here are five principles for engaging businesses: Speak as partner, not supplicant. Offer legitimate solutions to tough business challenges such as value propositions. Focus on how you will address their needs first. Know their numbers. Know the industry, the business, and your own assets.
  • social sector groups speaking to businesses in terms of the nonprofits’ own missions was a major barrier.
  • we coached everyone to focus on addressing the needs of the businesses themselves and on framing the partnership as a value proposition.
  • Workforce development nonprofits can provide a talent pipeline of workers
  • This framing as a value-add partnership,
  • The Prepare Learning Circle, for example, is a group of five cradle-to-career collective impact partnerships that are explicitly focused on exploring what successful collaboration looks like in the context of workforce development and employment.
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    Very good article by Tynesia Boyea-Robinson, on how nonprofits can best approach partnerships with forprofit corporations, October 16, 2015.  Ideas for internships, employment pipeline, etc. 
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Broward cities to recruit retiring Baby Boomers - tribunedigital-sunsentinel - 0 views

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    How Broward cities recruit and engage boomer volunteers from 2013. Want to see what has happened in the meantime.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

A Look Inside The New Trends In Business | Fast Company | Business + Innovation - 1 views

  • Talent
  • everything that has worked for organizations and leaders in the past—rules, best practices, business models, mind-sets—is being challenged
  • Receding Boundaries, Emerging Opportunities, And New Challenges
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  • An Intuit report estimates that by 2020, more than 60 million Americans will be contingent workers. With long-term employment giving way to contract workers, 87% of executives leading global HR have already changed or plan to change their talent-sourcing strategy to find both contract workers and experienced employees. That includes farming out temporary work through freelance platforms like Odesk and marketing and product development through creative crowdsourcing platforms like Tongal or Quirky.
  • dependent on both collaboration as well as competition
  • new business models and increased agility
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    Lydia Dishman, Fast Company, April 16, 2015 on business ecosystems, Deloitte Consulting uses term "ecosystems" and has new report--Business Ecosystems Come of Age. Intuit report on contingent workers is cited. Two points: temporary work through freelance platforms like Odesk and marketing and product development (projects) through creative crowdsourcing platforms like Tongal or Quirky.
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Best Freelance Platforms 2015 | TBC - 1 views

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    rankings of freelance platforms from Elance, Upwork, Guru, Freelancer, to Fiverr, Field National, 99designs, crowdSPRING, PeoplePerHour, etc.
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Technology Still a Big Disconnect for Older Americans - US News - 0 views

  • "Technology is an enabler; it is not the solution," he adds. Further, using high-tech tools can be a solitary act that creates "unintended opportunities for isolation. This idea that people are going to get all their socialization through the Internet is just not going to happen.""People think that somehow boomers are going to trump biology" in terms of being able to stay technically proficient as they get older, Collins says, "but it's not going to happen."People with Parkinson's, for example, face challenges in using most of the small, touch-screen devices now on the market, he observes. The new iPhone has won raves for its digital assistant, called Siri. But what if the user can't hear? Or what if they have macular degeneration and can't see the screen on a computing device?
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    technology issues for baby boomers and even older adults--we will not benefit as much as I thought based on this assessment by Philip Moeller, February 27, 2012.
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Which Job Boards are Most Useful for Applicants? - 0 views

  • The Major Players
  • Which is Best?
  • Specialized Job Boards
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  • To give yourself a real edge, create a LinkedIn profile and start networking with others in your field of work. Be sure to monitor your social networking activity and remember anything you post remains online forever. With a strong social presence and your resume submitted on the right job boards, you’ll be on your way to a great career.
  • Social Networking
  • Here are some example specialized job boards employers favor:
  • How to Go About Job Searching
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    blog post overview on job boards, including specialized job boards by name that operate for specific industries, social networking, how to go about job searching Undercover Recruiter
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    From undercoverrecruiter.com: Indeed and Monster have more candidates without a college education, Careerbuilder has more candidates with a college education and degrees. Indeed and Monster cater to teenagers, temporary job seekers, those only with a high school education and those freshly out of college. Careerbuilder weeds out some of the less serious applicants and is used more by high-scale employers. Entry-level hiring employers use Monster. For employers, Indeed is cheapest to use, then Monster, with Careerbuilder being the most expensive. Employers still use Careerbuilder because it weeds out unqualified and less serious applicants.
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    From undercoverrecruiter.com: Indeed and Monster have more candidates without a college education, Careerbuilder has more candidates with a college education and degrees. Indeed and Monster cater to teenagers, temporary job seekers, those only with a high school education and those freshly out of college. Careerbuilder weeds out some of the less serious applicants and is used more by high-scale employers. Entry-level hiring employers use Monster. For employers, Indeed is cheapest to use, then Monster, with Careerbuilder being the most expensive. Employers still use Careerbuilder because it weeds out unqualified and less serious applicants.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Top 5 Job Search Aggregators for a Smarter Job Hunt - 0 views

  • Too many job boards: The trouble with job boards is that you never know which one to use as new ones keep popping up on a daily basis. The barriers to entry in this industry are very low, as anyone with some technical knowledge can set up a free open-source powered job board and start posting positions tomorrow.
  • Enter the job search engines:
  • Benefits of job board aggregators:
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  • Warning: lots of results and duplicates:
  • The comprehensive search will pull up results from job boards, newspaper’s job sections, company career pages, recruiter sites and more.
  • Here are the best aggregated job boards in order of size:
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    lists advantages and disadvantages of job search engines
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