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Salary Tools for Nonprofit Jobseekers

April 03, 2008

Finding real-time data for nonprofit salary benchmarks can be challenging. That’s why we were happy to discover the salary tools offered by Indeed and SimplyHired, two job search engines that aggregate millions of job listings from across the web. For example, for a nonprofit Program Manager position in New York, NY, here’s what SimplyHired came up with an average salary of $70,000.

Both sites also offer data on similar job titles. For the search above, data for job titles such as Individual Development Manager, Manager Community Development, Volunteer Manager, and Senior Manager of Strategic Partnerships were also listed and graphed at Indeed.

Each tool uses its own database of job postings to populate this information. Indeed Salary Search is based on an index of salary information extracted from over 50 million job postings from thousands of unique sources over the last 12 months. As new jobs are added each day, the Indeed Salary Search index is automatically updated with fresh salary data. Similarly, SimplyHired uses salary data from millions of job listings indexed by Simply Hired’s job search engine.

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Congratulations to the 2008 Social Capitalist Award Winners

January 14, 2008

Fast Company published its 5th annual Social Capitalist Awards, and we are so proud of our client organizations on this year’s list. A very warm and well-deserved congratulations to our clients:

BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life)
Citizen Schools
Civic Builders
College Summit
DonorsChoose.org
New Leaders for New Schools
Points of Light Foundation & HandsOn Network
Reach Out and Read
Room to Read
Year Up

We are honored to help each of these organizations build stronger teams, scale operations, and ultimately create deeper impacts in the communities they serve.

Read the full list of winners.

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The Growth Imperative: How Can Organizations Plan Ahead?

November 30, 2007

In a recent report titled “The Global War for Talent” published by Aberdeen Group, a global research organization, researchers suggest that companies that focus their efforts on future workforce planning have a consistent advantage in talent acquisition. Sounds like a no-brainer, right? But what about organizations that are growing at such a rate that future growth is difficult to predict? This is a common challenge of some entrepreneurial nonprofit organizations whose growth outpaces their ability to plan for growth.

To address this challenge, Commongood Careers has a few suggestions:

1. Know the skill sets you seek. Create a list of common skills and competencies required for hires, both for specific roles and for all employees. If you build these profiles today, you’ll be better prepared when a position opens up in your organization.

2. Be able to connect quickly with candidates who possess those skills. Smart organizations are always “recruiting” to some extent; keep track of and keep in touch with any potential employees you may meet even if you’re not hiring for an open position today. Then, when it comes time to fill an open position, you’ll have a few leads in mind from the start.

3. Elevate talent acquisition planning to a strategic level. Your organization wouldn’t launch a new fiscal year without a budget, right? Planning for new hires is just as important. Build hiring plans, even if they are just forecasts or estimates, into your yearly planning process. A little work on an organization chart in advance will help to avoid hiring “fire drills” down the road.

Other suggestions for how nonprofits can best plan ahead for hiring? Let us know your thoughts by leaving a comment to this blog entry.

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