At the 2017 Net Impact #NI17 conference, I led a session to help professionals think about ways to identify their career path, build a network to earn it, and stand out in the job search.

1. Mark Horoszowski of MovingWorlds.org
@Experteering | mark@movingworlds.orgMark Horoszowski | @markhoroszowski
Creating an Action Plan for Impact
Using your social good experiences to advance your for-impact career

2. Hi, I’m Mark
Social Entrepreneur | Adventurer | Lecturer on Corporate Social Responsibility | Volunteer | Husband

3. I Lead MovingWorlds – the social
enterprise behind the Experteering
movement
Find Your Purpose. Make an Impact. Get
Ahead.
On
Your Own
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4. What We’ll Talk About
How to:
1. Orient Your Career
2. Build Your Skills and Network
3. Validate Your Assumptions
4. Stand Out In the Promotion and/or Career Search

5. Mark Horoszowski of MovingWorlds.org
@Experteering | mark@movingworlds.orgMark Horoszowski | @markhoroszowski
Finding a Job That Doesn’t Suck

6. DO MORE GOOD
DO LESS HARM

7. Do You Want to Work at Monsanto or The
Gates Foundation?

9. Our Path
Step 3:
Stand out
like a STAR
Step 3:
Validate
your
assumptions
Step 2:
Build your
skills &
network
Step 1:
Orient your
career

10. STEP 1: Orient Your Career
Validate Your Career Direction and Figure
Out What Moves You

11. What’s your dream job?

12. “Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our
wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of
riches.”

13. AN EMPOWERING ENVIRONMENT
WATCH: Dan Pink’s video about DRIVE

14. Autonomy Self Reflection
What do you prefer?
Management
Structure?

15. Table Talk
DIG DEEPER:
• Why is that?
REFRAME
• So what I’m
hearing you
say is that
you are most
motivated at
work when
ASK
• How can we
validate that
assumption?

16. Autonomy Self Reflection
What do you prefer?
Management
Structure?
Organization
Size?
Decision
Making
Frameworks?

17. Mastery Self Reflection
What are your strengths?

18. What are your SIGNs?

19. Mastery Self Reflection
Success Instinct Growth Needs

20. What drives you?
Purpose Self Reflection

21. PURPOSEPURPOSE

22. What drives you?
Purpose Self Reflection

23. How to Validate Your Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose Drivers:
Interview
• People there
• People not
there
• No dumb
questions
• What they
DO, not
what they
say
Observe
• Online
• Job shadow
• In-person
• Common
spaces
Research
• Glassdoor
• Social
media
• Urban
dictionary
DO
• Volunteer
• Pro Bono
consulting
• Mentor

24. Stalking is one of the most
underrated career search strategies

25. STEP 2
Get More Experience to Build
Your Skills AND Your Network

27. In 95% of cases leaders
are made, not born.

28. “You want practice to
be as close to the real
challenge as possible.
Want to be a boxer?
Hitting the bag is not
enough. You need to
be in a ring, against
opponents, like a
real match.”

29. What is one skill or
experience you need to
earn your dream job?

30. Where do you go for real
experiences?

33. BUILDING YOUR SKILLS THROUGH EXPERTEERING
Want to Develop That? >> Do This! >> Where to Find It?
Deliver results through others
Join a nonprofit board (focused on
strategy, not fundraising)
Catchafire, Social Venture Partners,
Taproot Plus
Grow as a leader and coach
Mentor youth, veterans, or students;
Lead skills-based trainings.
MicroMentor, Veterati, or
Mentoring.org
Develop depth and breadth
in a specific skill area
Find a skills-based project, at home
or abroad
Taproot Plus or MovingWorlds
Get global experience
Volunteer on vacation, sabbatical,
gaps in rotation, or in place of a
conference
MovingWorlds
Build your portfolio
Work on many short-term projects or
high visibility skills-based projects
Sparked, VolunteerMatch,
MovingWorlds, or LinkedIn4Good

34. Not All Experiences Are Created Equal

35. SET YOUR
LEARNING GOAL
GET ACTUAL
EXPERIENCE
HAVE CRITICAL
CONVERSATIONS
REFLECT ON IT
Not All Experiences Are Created Equal

36. SET YOUR
LEARNING GOAL
GET ACTUAL
EXPERIENCE
HAVE CRITICAL
CONVERSATIONS
REFLECT ON IT
Bring Your Boss and Mentor(s) Along
and have them pay for it
Tie them to your quarterly
and annual goals
Build on what you know,
stretch you where you’re
going
What did you do?
What would you
different?
How will that change how
you work with your team?
Ideas, insights, and
innovation to share with
your team and business

37. Building Your Network Along the Way

38. Building Your Network Along the Way

39. STEP 3:
Validate

42. STEP 4:
Build Your Network for Insider
Connections

43. STAR

45. Situation
Task
Action
Result

46. Resume and LinkedIn Tips
more tips here
1. Work experience (not “volunteer”, or “activities”, or “interests”)
2. Short and impactful statements
DO DON’T
1. Include it on your resume as part of our actual work experience
Pro bono consultant/project leader/manager responsible for
lowering overhead costs associated with technology
Call it “volunteer”, “activities”, or
“interests”
2. Highlight impact of your work
Led/developed/devised/created initiative with zero budget to lower
operational costs by 20% year over year
Explain the nonprofit’s mission
and summarize tasks
3. Highlight long-term impact
Completed project by implementing processes, updating technology,
and training staff to continue to improve operations, helping reach
25% more beneficiaries
Forget to include the actual
impact of your work

48. We’re almost done…

49. TO SUMMARIZE
1. You’re wrong, so validate your assumptions
2. Get more experience that will actually help you
3. Build your network and skills with the right people
4. Talk about your story

51. Mark Horoszowski of MovingWorlds.org
@Experteering | mark@movingworlds.org
Find Your Purpose. Make an Impact. Get
Ahead.On
Your Own
Join
a Team
Become a
Global Fellow
Sponsored By
Your Company