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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 […]

How to: build a recruitment roadmap for social impact roles

With social sector organisations growing and a surge of vacancies – from frontline community jobs to impact investment to ESG roles in mainstream investment firms – there’s more competition than ever to get the right talent on board. That makes it crucial to create a robust recruitment strategy. Your workforce can make or break your effectiveness as […]

How to: switch to a career in social impact

  If you’ve been following the world of social impact but not yet made the leap there in your own career, now may well be the time. The purpose-driven field is thriving, says recruitment consultant Sheena Pentin, and commercial experience is valued in many roles. From salary trade-offs, to pursuing your passion versus deploying your […]

A Recruiter’s Perspective: Trends in the UK’s Growing Social Impact Sector

  Ethical investing, responsible finance, ESG, impact investing, social investment…you have more than likely heard at least one of these terms. And it’s these fields – as well as social entrepreneurship – that are likely to underpin Europe’s green recovery and drive forward regenerative economies where communities are empowered, inequities are quashed, and environmental degradation […]

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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 […]