The Ethical Careers Guide: How to find the work you love

by Paul Allen

Overview

How do you find a job that makes you happy? As everyone’s idea of a meaningful job is different, this guide is not prescriptive or a definitive manual. Instead, it will inform and inspire readers – helping them to identify the best step(s) towards a more satisfying work life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780263229
Publisher:	New Internationalist
Publication date:	04/18/2017
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Paul Allen is a journalist and editor from London, living in Brighton. He writes about the voluntary sector for the Guardian, has run environmental projects for the BBC, and helped charities like Macmillan Cancer Support find their tone of voice. In 2007, he wrote Your Ethical Business, a start-up guide to creating a socially and environmentally responsible business. Today, he runs his own company Lark, which helps organisations put their stories into the right words.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 9

More than money 11

Work you love 12

People, planet - and the third P 13

Reality check 14

How to use this book 15

2 Getting to know you: Identifying what matters most 17

Your priorities 19

The right path 19

Step 1 Your passions 20

Step 2 The 10 motivators 22

What's good enough? 26

Trust your instincts? 27

Real-life experience 27

Doer or Changer? 28

3 The Doers: Exploring the world of charities, NGOs and social enterprises 31

A good cause 33

Getting your bearings 34

Working for a charity 36

At a glance: the UK voluntary sector 38

The 13 purposes 40

Foundations and trusts 41

Working for an NGO 43

The top 10 43

Working for a social enterprise 47

The social-enterprise difference 48

Why work for a social enterprise? 48

Which social enterprise? 49

Community Interest Companies 50

Co-operatives 53

Which co-op? 54

The IPS files 56

Which jobs are out there? 57

The most common charity career themes 58

Your skills 60

Most popular jobs 60

How do you find a doer job? 64

1 Media 64

2 Go direct 64

3 Agencies 65

4 Social networks 66

Finding the perfect charity job 67

How to make recruitment agencies work for you 68

The jobseeker view 69

How to get job-ready for the charity sector 71

1 Volunteer 71

2 Build an online brand 71

3 Take it offline 73

4 Find a mentor 74

5 Internships 76

6 Education and training 77

7 Temping 79

Social-enterprise specifics 80

'More than money' careers 81

Doer checklist 84

4 The Changers: Engaging with the world of business 85

Profits with purpose 87

Hello, intrapreneurs 87

Business as unusual 89

1 Earn to give 90

2 Green goals 93

3 Community matters 94

4 Close to home 99

5 Supply-chain heroes 103

6 Sector supporters 105

7 Game changers 109

Finding the good guys 115

Ethical kitemarks 115

Ethical awards 120

Online communities 125

Dodging the greenwash 132

Going it alone 134

Freelancing 137

Be an intrapreneur 139

The intrapreneur's toolkit 140

What can you affect? 142

Getting started 144

Building career capital 145

5 Give your time: Volunteering 147

Why volunteer? 149

What you get (when you give) 150

How to choose a volunteering opportunity 151

Changing a voluntary role into paid work 152

Three tips for effective volunteering 153

More top volunteering tips 155

6 They did it - and so can you! 157

Stories from 15 people who have 'been there and done it' - and the advice they have to offer 159

Index 182