The things you do outside of work - especially the social impact initiative you partake in like volunteering and social good activities - can accelerate your career. It's just one of the many more reasons to give back!

1. Mark Horoszowski of MovingWorlds.org
@Experteering | mark@movingworlds.orgMark Horoszowski | @markhoroszowski
Giving Back to Get Ahead
Using your social good experiences to advance your for-impact career

2. Hi, I’m Mark
Social Entrepreneur | Adventurer | Lecturer on Corporate Social Responsibility | Volunteer | Husband

3. What We’ll Talk About
How to:
1. Orient Your Career
2. Make Your Resume Stand Out (and get it into the right hands)
3. Earn Your Next Job

4. Mark Horoszowski of MovingWorlds.org
@Experteering | mark@movingworlds.orgMark Horoszowski | @markhoroszowski
Finding a Job That Doesn’t Suck

5. DO MORE GOOD
DO LESS HARM

6. Do You Want to Work at Monsanto or The
Gates Foundation?

8. Our Path
Step 3:
Stand out
like a
STAR
Step 2:
Build your
network &
experience
Step 1:
Validate
your
direction

12. STEP 1: Orient Your Career
Validate Your Career Direction and Figure
Out What Moves You

13. What’s your dream job?

14. “Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our
wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of
riches.”

15. AN EMPOWERING ENVIRONMENT
WATCH: Dan Pink’s video about DRIVE

16. Use “Lean” To Validate Your Direction
YOUR PURPOSE
AUTONOMY YOU DESIRE
SKILLS YOU ARE MASTERING
YOUR COMMUNICATION AND LEADERSHIP STYLE
CAREER’S PURPOSE
SKILLS NEEDED IN CAREER PATH
ORGANIZATION STRUCTRES FOR THIS PATH
MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION STYLES FOR THIS CAREER PATH
In person or virtual?
Structured or unstructured?
Written or spoken?
One-on-one or a group?
What causes motivate you?
Do you need to see and “feel” the impact, or can you be removed?
Do you need to be responsible for impact, or can you be operational?
What are you best at?
What do you want to learn?
Do you want to be a “manager” or “individual contributor”?
What does autonomy mean to you?
How important is setting your own goals?
How important is it to have a clear definition of a role vs. ambiguity?
Do you actively pursue getting feedback?
Does the career’s purpose align with yours?
Does the career path have roles that allow you to see impact of your work?
Is there a place for your skills on the delivery and/or operational side?
Does the career path have a place for your current skills?
Does the career path have room for development?
Does the career path offer opportunity for diverse work and growth?
Does the career path reward autonomy?
What are goal setting and review periods like for people in this career?
How clearly defined are roles in this path?
How is 360 degree feedback encouraged and managed?
What are the most common communications styles?
What is the management style within different organizations in this field?
Will your direct manager help you develop and provide autonomy?
Are different organizations in this field innovating for employee engagement and development?

17. What is your
ideal next career move?

18. STEP 2
Get More Experience to Build
Your Skills AND Your Network

19. “You want practice to
be as close to the real
challenge as possible.
Want to be a boxer?
Hitting the bag is not
enough. You need to
be in a ring, against
opponents, like a
real match.”

20. What are three of your
greatest strengths?

21. Which strength do you
want to develop the most?

22. Where could you develop it?
What type of
organization?
What size of
organization?
What type of
work?
Who would
you work
with?

23. What is one skill or
experience you need to
earn your next (ideal)
career step?

24. Where could you develop it?
What type of
organization?
What size of
organization?
What type of
work?
Who would
you work
with?
Where do
you need to
go to find it?

26. Where do you go for real
experiences?

29. BUILDING YOUR SKILLS THROUGH EXPERTEERING
Want to Develop That? >> Do This! >> Where to Find It?
Deliver results through others
Join a nonprofit board (focused on
strategy, not fundraising)
Catchafire, Social Venture Partners,
Taproot Plus
Grow as a leader and coach
Mentor youth, veterans, or students;
Lead skills-based trainings.
MicroMentor, Veterati, or
Mentoring.org
Develop depth and breadth
in a specific skill area
Find a skills-based project, at home
or abroad
Taproot Plus or MovingWorlds
Get global experience
Volunteer on vacation, sabbatical,
gaps in rotation, or in place of a
conference
MovingWorlds
Build your portfolio
Work on many short-term projects or
high visibility skills-based projects
Sparked, VolunteerMatch,
MovingWorlds, or LinkedIn4Good

30. Not All Experiences Are Created Equal

31. Not All Experiences Are Created Equal
Set goals with
manager, mentor,
and/or learning
cohort.
Learn new
concepts across
video, content, and
discussion
channels, using
case-based
content.
Apply concepts in
stretch experience;
Instill learning
through critical
conversations and
journaling.
Reflect with our
Think Back 
Think Through 
Think Forward 
Framework.
Teach back to your
cohort. Present
insights to team,
product unit, and
business.
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32. STEP 3:
Build Your Network for Insider
Connections

33. STAR

35. Situation
Task
Action
Result

36. Resume and LinkedIn Tips
more tips here
1. Work experience (not “volunteer”, or “activities”, or “interests”)
2. Short and impactful statements
DO DON’T
1. Include it on your resume as part of our actual work experience
Pro bono consultant/project leader/manager responsible for
lowering overhead costs associated with technology
Call it “volunteer”, “activities”, or
“interests”
2. Highlight impact of your work
Led/developed/devised/created initiative with zero budget to lower
operational costs by 20% year over year
Explain the nonprofit’s mission
and summarize tasks
3. Highlight long-term impact
Completed project by implementing processes, updating technology,
and training staff to continue to improve operations, helping reach
25% more beneficiaries
Forget to include the actual
impact of your work

38. We’re almost done…

39. TO SUMMARIZE
1. You’re wrong, so validate your assumptions
2. Get more experience that will actually help you
3. Build your network and skills with the right people
4. Talk about your story

41. Mark Horoszowski of MovingWorlds.org
@Experteering | mark@movingworlds.org
Mark Horoszowski | @markhoroszowski | mark@movingworlds.org
Find Your Purpose. Make an Impact. Get
Ahead.