Nonprofit Career Round-Up-3/29/2011

I'm going to start doing a link round up, starting today.  The purpose of this is fairly simple: while my articles are designed to help you with your non profit job search, there are countless of other articles out on the web that I read everyday.  When I find some that I think will be helpful to nonprofit job seekers, I will include them in this round-up.  So without further ado, here are the links for today...

• 'Tips for an Effective Nonprofit Cover Letter': I'm actually going to do a post on nonprofit cover letters pretty soon, but this is a good article to read if you simply can't wait for that.  Cover letters are as important (if not more so) than resumes, so it's important to learn how to write them effectively.
• 'Ideas to Rock Your Nonprofit Career': This article is from The Foundation Center's official blog, so you definitely should take this seriously.  It explains some of the things I have touched on in my earlier posts (mainly the importance of networking), and it also contains an interview with one of the leadin experts on non profit jobs: Trista Harris.
• 'Six Great Tips for Nonprofit Job Hunters': This is a slightly older post but it's still a great read.  It's from Forbes' Kerry Hannon, and she does a great job of presenting her points.  Point number 1 is an especially important one...
• 'Top 10 Nonprofit Job Hunting Tips foe 2011': This is from another reputable nonprofit organization: Bridgestar.  I especially recommend this article to those who are just starting to think about pursuing a non profit career, because it does a an excllent job of getting you to think about why you want to work in the nonprofit sector.