Jobs That Matter provides job seekers with the tips they need to land a great job in government (including local, state, and federal), nonprofit, or corporate organizations serving the public good. This book helps you pinpoint the right public service career for your interests and talents, and then helps you land it with key research, networking, resume, cover letter, and interviewing techniques. Along the way you ll read profiles of people in various public service jobs, showing how they got their jobs and what they re like.
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Heather Krasna, MS, is a career coach with 15 years' experience, who has helped over 7,000 people find jobs and internships. She is a career coach in private practice as well as Director of Candidate Services for Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group, where she provides individual coaching to executives pursuing nonprofit careers.
Previously, she was Director of Career Services for the University of Washington's Evans School of Public Affairs, one of the top MPA programs in the USA, and Internship Coordinator at Baruch College, CUNY, the nation's most diverse college. She has a Master of Science in Nonprofit Management from New School University and a Certificate in Adult Career Planning and Development from NYU, and has served on several nonprofit boards of directors. At the Evans School, Heather co-wrote and won the Partnership for Public Service's Call to Serve grant, which is given to only five universities in the United States each year for the purpose of helping colleges promote federal government employment; as a result of the program she established, the number of federal jobs students obtained increased by 500%.
She is a Certified Workforce Development Professional, Certified Social Sourcing Recruiter, and Certified Diversity Recruiter, and she has over 50 recommendations and 300 endorsements on LinkedIn.
