BCCCC Conference: How to Kickstart a CSR Career
Where will tomorrow’s corporate responsibility leaders come from? That was the question before a breakout session panel Monday at the BCCCC Conference.
According to Maggie McArthur, deputy director of Net Impact, about 50 percent of CSR positions are filled internally while another 25 percent are filled quietly, via word of mouth or leveraging connections such as previous internships or consulting contracts. My own informal polling on the career trajectories of conference attendees confirms the prevalence of CSR practitioners transitioning from a prior role in their current company. It is stunning how many of the gathered CSR leaders here at the conference started out as engineers, operations analysts, communications managers, and sales representatives.
