nonprofit networking question
May. 16th, 2007 02:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
2eclipsei called 2nd harvest today and found out that the position i interviewed for last week has been put on hold.
margaret, the office assistant is pretty much up in arms about this. she told me she is thinking about taking some time off and seeing how much their perspective changes after they have to take care of her work for a week or two. i don't blame her. they do a LOT of good work, but that means there is a lot of work to be done and she and her assistant are at the center of a lot of it.
she says i am one of the top candidates and will get called for a second interview - if they take the job off hold.
this does me exactly no good, although it is nice to have my ego stroked.
the interview monday went well but i am not terribly excited about this job possibility. it is with the national kidney foundation. i know they are well respected and will take the job if they offer it, but a) it is a long commute b)it is office admin work that is very high profile(read: formal - i HATE formal) and c) i don't care very much about who gets a kidney and who has kidney disease. i recognise that it is important work. it is better than say, purchasing bearings (what i did at my last job). but on a scale of 1-10 my interest is about a 3. feeding people, AIDS work, affordable housing initiatives, GBLT work, interfaith work, homeless shelters and anything else that falls into the category of social justice and does NOT involve book-keeping is a 9-10.
margaret, the office assistant is pretty much up in arms about this. she told me she is thinking about taking some time off and seeing how much their perspective changes after they have to take care of her work for a week or two. i don't blame her. they do a LOT of good work, but that means there is a lot of work to be done and she and her assistant are at the center of a lot of it.
she says i am one of the top candidates and will get called for a second interview - if they take the job off hold.
this does me exactly no good, although it is nice to have my ego stroked.
the interview monday went well but i am not terribly excited about this job possibility. it is with the national kidney foundation. i know they are well respected and will take the job if they offer it, but a) it is a long commute b)it is office admin work that is very high profile(read: formal - i HATE formal) and c) i don't care very much about who gets a kidney and who has kidney disease. i recognise that it is important work. it is better than say, purchasing bearings (what i did at my last job). but on a scale of 1-10 my interest is about a 3. feeding people, AIDS work, affordable housing initiatives, GBLT work, interfaith work, homeless shelters and anything else that falls into the category of social justice and does NOT involve book-keeping is a 9-10.
so i have decided i need to take a more pro-active approach. have any of you conducted informational interviews before? how did you go about it? did you get results?
what other networking techniques have worked for you?
