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This month’s competitions, job openings, and other ways to get involved with Net Impact
Looking for something to do this month? Whether you’re itching to learn something new (or, hey, want to apply for a job), we’ve got you covered.
WRI Taps Net Impact Students to Market New Initiative
The Sustainability SWOT helps business translate complex issues into actionable strategies
“It is one thing to publish a report or put forward an idea,” says Eliot Metzger of the World Resources Institute (WRI). “It is quite another to translate that idea into a real and positive change in the world.” Eliot shares how WRI worked with companies to develop the Sustainability SWOT (sSWOT) to solve this problem, as well as the unique advantages of tapping Net Impact’s student members for this critical initiative...
Introducing Net Impact's 2013 Gold & Silver Chapters
These chapters lead the way for a network 300+ chapters strong
Our 2013 Gold and Silver chapters are leading the way for our global network 300+ chapters strong. These chapters go above and beyond basic requirements, offering their local members a wide variety of unique opportunities to make an impact on campus, in the workplace, and in their local communities...
Four Tricks to Building Support for Your Change Efforts
Impact at Work Award winners share tips for success
Change is hard. On a personal level, it’s emotionally challenging to break ourselves of habits we’re attached to, and on an institutional level, it can be exceedingly difficult as well. So we asked a group of folks who know all about implementing change in the workplace: our former Impact at Work Award winners. Here are their four tricks to gaining buy-in for your next impact project…
The Stand-out Resume: Showcase Your Experience to Land Your Dream Job
Check out our free webinar this Thursday
Does anyone really love to write their resume? How many people look forward to spending long afternoons in their college career center, digging through tip sheets and struggling with that mysterious “personal objective”? And good luck to you if you’re going after a job that pays the bills and makes an impact – because that’s a whole different ballgame.
Can Financial Securities Investment Prevent Diabetes?
I3C Competition awards $15,000 to a team of students who think it can
The financial industry probably isn’t the sector you’d immediately think of when asked who will solve our nation’s struggle with diabetes. What do traders and investors have to gain, after all, by helping the 72 million American adults who are projected to be pre-diabetic by 2020 avoid a lifetime struggle with the often fatal disease? The answer, according to a winning team of MBA students, is a 13% ROI...
Infographic: What’s the Effect of 45,000 Student Actions?
Small Steps, Big Wins Campus Challenge proves it's not impossible for one person to make big change
This semester thousands of students made real social and environmental change around the world through the Small Steps, Big Wins Campus Challenge. Check out this infographic mapping their collective efforts, which proves that simple, everyday actions really do add up...
Last Chance: How Does Your Impact MBA Program Stack Up?
Rankings may be evolving, but we still need our own
The most recent crop of b-school students graduates this month, and many of them may have originally picked their MBA program based on how well it would equip them for the job market – and they probably leaned on one of the many rankings publications out there to help them. But if you’re gunning for a great impact job, where do you turn for advice?
Quick Tips: Transitioning to the Impact Sector
Is there something meaningful missing from your job? Maybe you’re looking for a role where you can do more for the world with the skills you have. Then flip through this deck of tips straight from Making the Switch: Transition Your Career into the Impact Sector, our recent Issues in Depth call featuring nonprofit and for-profit professionals who’ve done just that...
Acing the Post-graduation Transition
What you need to know about heading into the working world
Yikes. Graduation is impending and you’ve got a host of end of year activities to tackle. But hard as it might be to fathom, now’s the time to focus on what comes next – because, honestly, a good transition plan can make or break that post-graduation path. To give you a head start, we’ve culled advice from the frontlines: Net Impact community members who’ve already made the sometimes rocky journey into the professional world.
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