Careers In Social Impact: Invent Your Own Meaningful Path | Washington, D.C.
About this event
You want more meaningful impact in your career, but you’re stuck on where to start, or you’re wrestling over how to connect your unique skills to an industry with poorly defined career paths.
Even when you feel confident about your direction, jobs in social impact are especially tough to find and even harder to get a foot in the door. When less than half of available jobs are listed publicly, you need strategies no longer served by traditional job hunting.
Bring your toughest questions because we will be joined by local impact entrepreneurs and professionals who will share real talk about their experience and dispel myths about working in social impact.
This hands-on, high-energy workshop will transform your mindset by connecting design thinking tools, used in social impact, with unconventional strategies to design your career and stand out in a noisy world.
Takeaways
- Reveal what matters most to craft your definition of meaningful work
- Learn simple tactics to expand your awareness of social impact opportunities
- Learn how to identify and close your skills gaps
- Learn how to authentically connect with people in social impact sector
- Learn strategies to get in the door when companies are not hiring
Prereqs & Preparation
Bring a learner’s mindset and we’ll show you how to close the gap between where you are and a career built on meaningful work. Please arrive early, we will start promptly at 6:30p.