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How to determine whether your intrinsic values align both at home and work

Have you ever found yourself in a team meeting, wholly disconnected from the company culture? Ever expected more from a company’s benefits plan?  You may have been offered exciting new opportunities, great compensation, and promising career prospects. But what’s missing? Maybe the company’s workplace values just don’t align with yours. As impact recruiters, we have […]

Social Impact Jobs: What Are They And How Can You Find Them?

While nonprofit organisations, NGOs, and philanthropic institutions might be the immediate image that comes to mind when we talk about a social impact job, the possibilities of making a positive impact on people or planet are much more diverse these days. Working in impact recruitment, we’ve witnessed social impact jobs span almost every industry and […]

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Addressing Imbalance: Good Finance’s engagement programme

The Good Finance engagement programme, Addressing Imbalance, exists to connect with Black and Ethnic Minority led organisations to improve access to information, knowledge and resources about social investment. The Diversity and Inclusion blogs cover gender imbalance in social investment and social enterprise sectors, female leadership, the disproportionate effect of Covid-19 on ethnic minority communities, and stopping […]

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Sustainable Investment Festival 2021

International Investment’s parent company Incisive Media will host its inaugural Sustainable Investment Festival, from 22-25 June 2021 live online. There will be some fantastic thought-provoking presentations from renowned keynote speakers about shaping the future of sustainable investing,  the fast-changing regulatory environment, and  integrating ESG into business processes. Innovative breakout sessions will be specifically tailored to […]

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Changemaker Profiles: Colleen Ebbitt

Pursue Your Purpose, Make Your Mark.  Careers4Change has started this series of changemaker profiles to inspire and encourage those who are considering a career change to explore the options in the social impact sector and find their purpose.  We are keen to reinforce the message from social and impact investor leaders that impact entrepreneurs are […]

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Changemaker profiles: Chris Colwell

Pursue Your Purpose, Make Your Mark.  Careers4Change started this series of changemaker profiles to inspire and encourage those who are considering a career change to explore the options in the social impact sector and find their purpose.  We are keen to reinforce the message from social and impact investor leaders that impact entrepreneurs are at […]

Improving Gender Diversity: The State of Social Sector Recruitment

Women in the social sector should be celebrated for their achievements this year; from the WISE 100 women working in social enterprise and impact investing to those encouraging female entrepreneurship and playing vital roles in post-pandemic recovery. Gender lens investing is expected to continue its rapid growth, and from an economic perspective, it is becoming […]

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Changemaker Profiles: Naila Mir

Pursue Your Purpose, Make Your Mark.  Careers4Change has started this series of changemaker profiles to inspire and encourage those who are considering a career change to explore the options in the social impact sector and find their purpose.  We are keen to reinforce the message from social and impact investor leaders that impact entrepreneurs are […]

A reflection on 2020 & hope for 2021

According to the Deloitte survey on 2021 Global Human Capital Trends, it is now necessary to make “a fundamental mindset shift: from a focus on surviving to the pursuit of thriving.” From our learnings through this period, we must now build back better in 2021. Many are hoping that 1 January 2021 will be drastically different […]