Important Interview Tactics You Should Know
Thank you to our Corporate Leadership Council speakers Michael Bzdak at Johnson & Johnson, Jarian Kerekes at Equitable Foundation, Luis Maes at the MLB Kansas City Royals, Windy Pham at Macy’s and Niki Zoli at Lidl U.S for helping advance the sector and sharing their insights on the “How to get a job in social impact” webinar. Addressing barriers—such as access to a good job—is part of CHC’s core work to ensure opportunity for every person in every community to live their healthiest life.
Watch the April 23, 2024 event recording for tips on how to find coveted social impact jobs, skills needed, how to break through if you don’t have a social impact background, interview tips, bouncing back after layoffs and more.
Interview tactics:
Navigating interviews in the social impact space involves highlighting your passion for making a difference while demonstrating your relevant skills and experiences. Here are some tips to help you prepare for and excel in interviews within this impactful sector.
- Demonstrate how your skills (work or volunteer) are directly transferable to social impact jobs. Many skills such as communications and community relations, relationship building, user experience, project management, investing and data science easily translate. Getting your bearings with artificial intelligence (AI) may help open doors. Social impact jobs are not unicorns, rainbows, and check presentations. They are complex jobs often supporting everything from reputation management to employee engagement to aligning the organization’s assets to do social good.
- Show how you are committed to doing good for the community—and for the business. Craft an elevator pitch highlighting your key skills but differentiate yourself by showing you are committed not just to social impact but also to shared value or the triple bottom line, ensuring this work brings value to the business. Similar with DEI, learn how to make the business case.
- Consider hiring a career coach (or friend) to help you better showcase your personal brand and position your resume.
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