The document provides advice on transitioning to a new job. It discusses clarifying career goals by understanding one's skills, interests, and values. It also recommends researching skills gaps and networking to identify opportunities. Suggestions are made to gain practical experience through internships, projects, volunteering or education to address gaps. Nonprofit organizations are highlighted as opportunities to take on responsibility, be entrepreneurial and gain experience, with fundraising identified as an in-demand skill. The document encourages attendees to actively seek out ways to help organizations in their field of interest.

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Transitioning to
Your Next Job
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2. What transition do YOU want to make?
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3. What we’ll cover
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Ways to gain practical experience to
address gaps in skills, connections,
credibility needed to get to YOUR next step
But first,
 Clarify goals
 Research – what are your gaps
Then, you’ll be ready to take action

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Want to be able to identify the impact you
want to make, using what skills and
experience from your background, in what
types of organizations/settings
Clarifying Your Goals

5. Know yourself and your preferences
Work
Environment
Career
Self
Just one part of your LIFE!
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Your
Personality
Your Values
Your InterestsOther
Your Skills

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Who is doing that work?
• Organizations
• People

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Assess gaps in knowledge, skills, network,
credibility to figure out how to get to the
next step
• LinkedIn: What have people done in the past,
what skills do they bring?
• Networking: what do you need to get where
you want to go? Information, Advice, Referrals
• Job description analysis: what are the roles
looking for? Handout online.

8. Using LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com/alumni
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9. Using LinkedIn

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Build skills and credibility to fill the
gaps between where you are and
where you need to be

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– Education: skills or topical knowledge; certifications,
courses, degrees
– Credibility: company affiliation or industry experience or
knowledge base, etc.
• Include network building/getting known
– Experience (involvement; credibility); structured or
unstructured (posted/unposted)
• Internships/externships/fellowships
• Projects, contracts
• P/t or temp work
• Volunteer: one time, longer term, projects, board membership
Addressing the gaps

12. Internships/externships/fellowships
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13. Projects, contracts,
part-time or temp work
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14. Volunteer:
one time, longer term, projects,
Boards
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15. Putting it into practice:
an Executive Director’s perspective
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Executive Director
Congress for the New Urbanism – New England
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16. • CNU New England
• My green career story
• You: from the perspective of an employer
• Things to consider
• Recommendations

18. Have you ever fallen in love with a European city
and wondered why we don’t have places like
this back home?

19. Have you ever fallen in love with a European city
and wondered why we don’t have places like
this back home?

20. Have you ever fallen in love with a European city
and wondered why we don’t have places like
this back home?

21. Have you ever fallen in love with a European city
and wondered why we don’t have places like
this back home?

23. My green career story
Everyone has
something to
offer
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My green career story

24. My green career story
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25. Now, as an employer and recruiter...
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26. Now, as an employer...
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27. Skills /
Transferrable experience
•Event production?
•Graphic design?
•Budgeting?
•Data management?
•Email marketing?
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•Food service?
•Starting a student club?
• Copy editing?
• Client management?
• Fundraising?

28. Characteristics
•Organized?
•Detail-oriented?
•Eager to help?
•Energetic?
• Quick learner?
• Resourceful?
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•Entrepreneurial?
•Sees the big picture?
•Cooperative?
•Creative?
•Outgoing / social?
• Respectful?

29. An interest in a particular subtopic
•City design?
•Real estate?
•Regional policy?
•Agriculture
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•Sociology /
anthropology /
geography?
Even better: an interest in a
specific project.

30. Nonprofit organizations...
...are almost always understaffed and under-
resourced
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31. Nonprofit organizations...
...offer you the opportunity to play an
outsized role and big responsibility
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32. Nonprofit organizations...
...need a better balance of visionary and
practical thinking.
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33. Nonprofit organizations...
...offer you the opportunity to be
entrepreneurial
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34. Nonprofit organizations...
The skill most demanded and yet scarcely
available?
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35. Nonprofit organizations...
The skill most demanded and yet scarcely
available?
FUNDRAISING
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36. Trying to make the leap?
Find an organization in the area of your interest
and...
Show up and introduce yourself.
Make your interest known.
Offer your time.
Find role models and copy them.
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37. Trying to make the leap?
Find an organization in the area of your interest
and...
Continually seek out ways to be
helpful.
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38. What you can do now
• Be strategic- set time aside, including time to
reflect.
• Begin- ideally when you walk out the door
• Keep track of your progress; what have you
learned, what’s the next step that can be
done?
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39. Questions?
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