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Five creative recruitment strategies
We’re in a candidate-driven market, which means you need to attract top talent.
Here are five creative recruitment strategies to help you stand out from the crowd.
Is it Your First Time Interviewing? Avoid These 5 Mistakes!
Job interviews can make even the most seasoned candidates quake in their boots, but they can be equally as daunting for interviewers, particularly if it’s your first one.
Here are five common interview mistakes to avoid.
Five reasons to enter charity awards
Have you entered your charity into any awards? If not, you’re missing out.
Why? Being nominated and, fingers crossed, winning an award can do wonders for your reputation.
Read on to find out why.
Six reasons to use a recruiter to find your next job
Job hunting is a tedious process, isn’t it? Why go it alone when you can use a recruitment agency?
Here are six reasons to use a recruiter to find your next job.
Five tips for optimising your experience with a recruitment agency
Finding top-tier fundraisers can be difficult when you don’t have the time, tools, or the right connections in your industry.
Recruitment agencies exist to plug that gap. But what can you do to ensure you find the right recruitment partner and have the best possible experience?
Here are some top tips.
Should you work for a small or large charity?
When it comes to charities, does size matter? Is bigger better, or do the best things come in small packages?
As with most things in life, there’s no ‘one-size-fits-all’ answer. It boils down to your priorities and what you want from your job.
To help you decide, let’s look at some of the pros and cons of working for large and small charities.
Three face-to-face fundraising tips
Is face-to-face fundraising relevant in the digital age? And what can you do to boost ROI?
Find out in our latest post.
Charitable donations hit by energy price hike
With energy prices soaring, people don’t have spare cash to give to charities. Enthuse’s Spring 2022 Donor Pulse report claims that over half of us are finding it harder to donate to charity than we were six months ago.
Sadly, things are going to get worse before they get better. With this in mind, here are four things you can do to protect your charity.
What does a fundraiser do, anyway?
When people hear the term ‘fundraiser’, they often think of people in high-vis jackets with clipboards. This is a legitimate type of fundraising (called face-to-face or street fundraising), but this is just one of the ways charities generate money.
You can get the lowdown on the others in this post.
4 ways to build a strong workplace culture
What do you think are the top priorities for job seekers? A huge salary? A short commute? An easy job?
The answer is all of the above. However, another priority in the current climate is a strong workplace culture.
Here’s how to build a strong one.
Six ways to reduce workplace conflict
There are some certainties that come with being a human, aside from the whole death and taxes thing. Conflict is one of them.
Here are six tips for managing workplace conflict.
Five tips to make your LinkedIn profile irresistible to recruiters
With more than 57M+ companies and 15 million active job listings, LinkedIn is the largest professional network on the planet.
Here are five tips to make your profile irresistible to potential employers.
How to make the most of hybrid working
In 2020, COVID-19 changed the way we work. Some people resented the isolation and lack of human contact, while others embraced the lack of commute and the money saved on it.
Here are a few tips to ensure you’re productive, wherever you are.
Pitch Perfect: How to write a cover letter that'll get you hired
Along with interviews and presentations, cover letters are the most dreaded part of the job search. After all, it’s difficult to summarise a career on one A4 page.
Here are a few tips to help you nail it.
Five tips to make your CV stand out from the crowd
Your CV is the first impression hiring managers will have of you. If you want to stand out, it needs to shine.
Here are five things you can do to make it stand out from the crowd.
Why work in fundraising?
Professional fundraising is not a career route we’re exposed to at a young age. Yet, it’s a smart career choice in a diverse and growing field.
Here are three great reasons to pursue a career in fundraising.
Seven ways to keep things fresh at work
Whether we admit it or not, we all fall in and out of love with our jobs all the time.
Here are seven ways to rekindle the love and recreate that spark you felt on day one.
Six qualities of a great fundraiser
Passion is essential for any fundraiser, but there are plenty of other qualities that distinguish a good fundraiser from a great one.
We take a deep dive in this post.
Five ways volunteering can help you get a job in fundraising
There are loads of benefits to volunteering. It gives you a sense of accomplishment, helps you gain perspective, and is a great way to develop new skills. But it can also help you get a job.
Here are five ways volunteering can help you bag your dream fundraising job.
The Future of Event Fundraising: Hybrid Events
COVID-19 has changed the face of event fundraising. Sure, we’re slowly moving back to in-person events, but virtual events won’t be going anywhere, soon. In fact, there’s a growing trend for ‘hybrid events’ that combine the best of both worlds…
Read on to find out how to go hybrid.