February 27, 2003 | Read Time: 1 minute
Q: Can you recommend any recruiters who specialize in nonprofit careers?
A: Because recruiters advertise with The Chronicle, we are not in a position to recommend any in particular. As with so many aspects of career advancement, your best bet may be to ask your network of friends and colleagues for referrals. Or, if you are acquainted with a recruiter in another field, he or she may have a few names for you. Your college career office may have some ideas, and most such offices are willing to help alumni years or decades after graduation.
You may simply need to do some research and shop around. A good place to start might be the book From Making a Profit to Making a Difference, by Richard M. King (Planning/Communications, 2000, $16.95), which provides a substantial list of executive-search firms serving the nonprofit field. (This list is also available online at Idealist.Org. ) Another online resource is Oya’s Recruiters Directory, which includes a handful of search companies that work with or specialize in nonprofit clients. Several of these recruiters also focus on one particular type of job category, such as information technology or accounting, or on a specific area within the charity field, such as arts management. It also wouldn’t hurt to see what might pop up via a simple Web search for the phrase “nonprofit recruiters,” coupled with the city or region in which you are hunting for work.
