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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Barriers to Encore Careers Are Falling - Next Avenue - 0 views

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    great article on how fears of boomers from four years ago about attempting encore careers have declined, maybe because of external environmental changes or attitudinal shifts from within.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

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

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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  • The comprehensive search will pull up results from job boards, newspaper’s job sections, company career pages, recruiter sites and more.
  • Warning: lots of results and duplicates:
  • 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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