Feeling really discouraged with job search

[Anonymous]

I have been hunting for close to 7 months for an entry level part time position at a non profit. I can't find anything, or rather no one calls me back. Is there a hiring firm that can help me? Any suggestions?

[Anonymous]

Start as a volunteer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been hunting for close to 7 months for an entry level part time position at a non profit. I can't find anything, or rather no one calls me back. Is there a hiring firm that can help me? Any suggestions?

Or internship

[Anonymous]

Call a staffing agency in DC that does temp and perm. A lot of them have non-profit clients but you may need to be open to going to other places too while you wait. I've seen tons of these work out to be longer-term.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Call a staffing agency in DC that does temp and perm. A lot of them have non-profit clients but you may need to be open to going to other places too while you wait. I've seen tons of these work out to be longer-term.

Agree -- look into careersinnonprofits.com

[Anonymous]

Part-time is tough to find. I've been in nonprofit work for 15 years, and everyone I know who works part-time started as full-time, earned a strong reputation, and then cut back to have a better work/life balance.

[Anonymous]

Call the non-profits on your short list and ask whoever answers the phone which temp agency they use. They go apply to that agency and say you are especially interested in assignments at that non-profit. Once there do a good job, be likeable and use your time to network into the role you want.

[Anonymous]

I found two part time jobs with non-profits on Craigs List during the last year. One was for an educational non-profit and the other one was for a cultural exchange program. Both had decent work, but really low pay.

[Anonymous]

Idealist.org

[Anonymous]

Try part time in the public or for-profit sector. Part time in general is hard to find. Most people I know who do part time, started off full time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Start as a volunteer.

Read the "should I quit" thread about the volunteer who got shafted when they applied to get paid for what they were volunteering to do... the organization just didn't want to pay what they were getting for free.

[Anonymous]

If you go the volunteer path...limit your time there. Say to three months or only one day per week.

[Anonymous]

Get ready to search for many more months.

Obama will be increasing the supply of workers.

Hundreds of thousands of h1b relatives will flood the IT market.

Millions of low level workers will flood other job markets.

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=20bc202b0a49bbe9f2a705782dba0090&tab=core&tabmode=list&=

The objective of this procurement is to provide card consumables for the Document Management Division (DMD) that will be used to produce Permanent Resident Cards (PRC) and Employment Authorization Documentation (EAD) cards. The requirement is for an estimated 4 million cards annually with the potential to buy as many as 34 million cards total. The ordering periods for this requirement shall be for a total of five (5) years.