Fundraising Career Conference My Interview With Mazarine Treyz

Phil's Careers Blog Fundraising Career Conference: My Interview With Mazarine Treyz This is Mazarine Treyz of Wild Woman Fundraising, and right now I am excited to be interviewing Phil Gerard for our Fundraising Career Conference 2016. Phil shall be talking about tips on how to construction and organize your fundraising job search. Phil just isn't a typical fundraising recruiter. He spends that further time with us, serving to us see what expertise we need to apply for the jobs we wish, and what stepping stones we’ll need to navigate to get that crucial expertise for the subsequent section in our careers. So Phil, that’s somewhat bit of what I know about what makes you totally different. But what do you suppose makes you different from all the other fundraising recruiters out there? PG:First of all, thanks very a lot for inviting me back to your convention, Mazarine! What is very important for me is to be in contact with the people in my community over the course of their careers. I meet with fundra isers and aspiring fundraisers weekly to talk about their career aspirations. I suppose that’s really necessary as a result of this way I be taught more about individuals’s backgrounds, their strengths, what makes them tick, and what they need to do with their profession. Then as opportunities come up, now or in the future, I have a significantly better understanding of who could be an excellent match for what job and with what organization. MT: Do you recruit Canada-broad? PG: Yes, I do. With a concentrate on Vancouver and Toronto. Vancouver is my home base, so after all that’s where most of my searches are. MT: What do you discover most fulfilling about your job? PG:I love my job. There are many issues that I find fulfilling however one instance is when somebody who has tried to break into the fundraising occupation calls me and says “Phil, I received the job.” That’s just an awesome feeling. The different example is after I establish a candidate for one of my shoppers who I suppose is simply the proper match and that person ends up being the profitable candidate. MT: What are you educating at the Fundraising Career Conference 2016? PG: This time I’m going to talk about organizing your job search. This is one thing I’m wanting forward to very much because it’s going to be a very broad and sensible session. I’ll be speaking about the entire course of : Researching the organizations that you are excited about, customizing your résumé, getting ready your self for an interview, the dos and the don’ts, how to present your self in an interview and how to observe-up afterwards. We’re additionally going to debate some tough issues and questions and how to prepare for those. MT: I’m sure you have seen so many canopy letters and résumés, what’s one mistake you see people make again and again with a canopy letter or a résumé? PG: I even have many pet peeves in terms of résumés, cowl letters and LinkedIn profiles. We’ll talk about t hat within the session. But I would say in addition to grammar and typos, it’s inconsistency (fashion, punctuation, font and dimension). Your résumé and canopy letter must be flawless â€" it may be your ticket to an interview. MT: What would you would like more folks realized about the fundraising job search? PG: That it takes time. Especially, if you want to make a career transition. Those who're patient and have a good attitude, are humble and gracious within the course of will eventually be successful. MT: Thank you a lot, once more, Phil. I’m actually wanting forward to your session. PG: Thank you, Mazarine. Post navigation Fill in your particulars beneath or click an icon to log in: You are commenting utilizing your WordPress.com account. (Log Out/ Change) You are commenting utilizing your Google account. (Log Out/ Change) You are commenting using your Twitter account. (Log Out/ Change) You are commenting utilizing your Facebook account. (Log Out/ Change) Connecting to %s Notify me of latest comments via e-mail. Notify me of recent posts via e mail. Email Subscription Enter your e mail handle to observe my NEW blog and stay on top of the latest profession alternatives and fundraising information. Sign me up! Follow On Twitter Browse by Category Phil’s Careers Tweets Error: Twitter didn't respond. Please wait a couple of minutes and refresh this page.