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Empowering Experienced Professionals for Successful Career Transitions

"How to Get a Good Job at a Mission-Driven Nonprofit" with Professional Headhunter LARRY SLESINGER

  • Mon, April 16, 2012
  • 9:30 AM
  • Tue, April 17, 2012
  • 6:00 AM
  • 40Plus Conference Room***(Doors open at 9:30 for networking and the program starts promptly at 10:00.)

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Monday Morning Speaker: Larry Slesinger

How to Get a Good Job at a Mission-Driven Nonprofit

Advice from a Professional Headhunter Larry Slesinger

Looking for your first nonprofit job after a career in business or government? Already have experience working for a nonprofit but want a better job?

Executive search consultant Larry Slesinger is hired by leading foundations, associations, and other nonprofits in Washington, DC, to help them recruit CEOs and other senior staff. As an author and speaker, he shares his wealth of insider knowledge to help you get a great job in the nonprofit world.

Topics: · Defining the Nonprofit Sector · Finding Good Openings · Creating a Great Resume · Writing Persuasive Cover Letters · Acing the Interview · Recruiting the Right References

Larry
  Larry Slesinger, Founder and CEO of Slesinger Management Services, an executive search firm that helps nonprofit organizations, including associations and foundations, in the Washington, DC, area, fill senior level positions.



www.SlesingerManagement.com

5016 Westpath Terrace
Bethesda, MD 20816

Tel.: 301-320-0680
Fax: 301-320-9471

E-mail:
Larry [at] SlesingerManagement.com



Biography


About Larry Slesinger
Througn Slesinger Management Services, launched in 1988, Larry Slesinger, has completed approximately 95 searches for DC area senior level positions at nonprofit organizations, associations, and foundations. Previously he was on the senior staff of several nonprofits, including BoardSource (then called the National Center for Nonprofit Boards), where he was the chief operating officer for 10 years. His website is at www.SlesingerManagement.com.

Larry's book "Search: Winning Strategies to Get Your Next Job in the Nonprofit World" will be on sale at a discounted price.

Testimonials for the book include:

"At last! A practical guide for people seeking employment in the nonprofit world . . . Slesinger's counsel is wise and generous . . . And the book is a pleasure to read." -- William M. Dietel, former president, Rockefeller Brothers Fund

"Some books take hundreds of pages to tell you how to find a job. Slesinger's book is mercifully short -- a small gem that will tell you quickly what you need to know." -- Joyce Henderson, Vice President for Human Resources, Volunteers of America.


Plan to join us after the meeting for networking.  Many of us carry our conversations to lunch at the nearby Brookings Institution

Attire is business casual, recruiters are often present, so we ask all Monday Speaker attendees to contribute to the professional standards and objectives of this important networking meeting.

Doors open at 9:45 for networking and the program starts promptly at 10:00.

40Plus of Greater Washington
1718 P Street, NW, Suite T2
Washington, DC 20036

Near the DuPont Circle Metro Station

*NOTE: the 19th ST (South) Exit is closed until Oct. 2012.
  • From DuPont Circle Metro Station take the Q-ST EXIT.
  • Turn right on Q St. and cross Conn. Ave.
  • Follow Q St. east to 18th St. crossing both 19th St. and New Hampshire Ave.
  • Turn right on 18th St. and walk a full block to P St.
  • Turn left on P Street.
  • The 40Plus office is in Webster House at 1718 P St.  It is on the right near the end of the block.
Map & Detailed Directions to 40Plus

40Plus of Greater Washington
Empowering Experienced Professionals
 for Successful Career Transitions