Recruiting from the For-Profit Sector
This section of the Recruiting Nonprofit Leaders learning center is dedicated to those nonprofits recruiting out of the for-profit sector. Articles, tools, and templates are available here to help you source, interview, and evaluate these candidates and how their skills might translate to your nonprofit organization.
Attracting—and Benefiting from—Sector Switchers
Bridgespan Group Partner Wayne Luke shares the story of a high-profile search, NASA’s recruitment of the Mercury Seven, which illustrates ways nonprofits can identify and evaluate great job candidates from outside the sector, and also integrate them successfully into their organizations.
Hiring a Bridger
To position themselves to take advantage of the skills candiates from the for-profit sector have to offer, organizations should be aware of the challenges some bridgers encounter and utilize the lessons learned by nonprofits that have hired from the for-profit sector in the past.
Hiring a Bridger: Interview Guide
The key to success in any hiring process is finding the candidate with the right skills, interests, and qualities for your organization. This interview guide can help organizations assess a bridger candidate’s transferable experience and qualities.
Hiring a Bridger: Referencing Guide
Conducting professional references is an important step in the search process. This guide, used as a supplement to an organization’s existing reference-checking process, can help assess a candidate from the for-profit sector’s transferable experience and qualities.