BLOGS ON HIRING
THE SEARCH
Looking for tips to help you write a better cover letter? Maybe you want to learn how to re-organize your résumé? Read through our blogs with tips and advice for anyone on the job search journey.
Why you shouldn’t send that email after submitting your application if the organization says no calls or emails.
Help the person reading the cover letter see that your identities are a stellar asset that make you a kickass candidate who can bring what no one else can to the role
Whether in the initial application process or during a job negotiation, a 990 is one of our most powerful job searching tools. But you have to know how to find it and how to read it.
Here's how to approach someone respectfully and appropriately for an informational interview.
The pandemic plus economic downturn means getting a job is really hard right now. We hope you're able to extend yourself some grace, recover from that toxic work environment, and find a job that's worthy of your brilliance.
One of the most nerve-wracking parts of the hiring process is the salary negotiations. For a lot of us, it can be uncomfortable to name our labor in terms of a dollar value, and even more scary to wonder what someone else thinks our labor is worth. This is complicated more when organizations don’t say how much a position pays and it becomes a guessing game until the moment we’re offered a position or if they’re basing your potential new salary on your previous underpaid positions. It’s enough to turn anyone into a stress ball.
We're here to share some lessons we’ve learned to help you on your journey to movement and movement-adjacent work—even if you don’t land one of the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements’ competitive fellowships.
Together, we can disrupt the capitalist heteropatriarchal system that makes this practice a necessity in the first place.
You've taken a big step—admitting your job is no longer a good fit for you. Now start making moves to get the hell out!
Racism and other oppressive -isms in a workplace show up due to organizational leadership and a long-standing fucked up culture, and it is not an individual intern’s problem to solve.
This year has already been the worst, longest collective year in existence because of this pandemic, why should hiring continue the same practices making it even more stressful?
How you read a job description to get the most information out of it, and to get hints at what the organization's culture is like, is a honed skill.
For a lot of people—particularly marginalized folks, first generation folks, and people of color—this process is a mystery shared by mentors and in secret. We hope to demystify this process for everyone and help you feel more prepared as you search for a new position.
The application process is long and stressful. It’s vulnerable and can challenge you mentally, physically, and emotionally. Hopefully, these tips will help you turn in the best application materials you can.
Helpful hints for using our salary database.
Scroll through these questions and practice your answers to help you feel confident for your next job interview.
You probably have more transferable skills than you realize!
HIRING HELP
Hiring staff can be hard, especially when your organization’s hiring practices are a bit out of date. If you want to spruce up your hiring process to be more equitable and supportive of candidates, check out our blogs.
Making your organization’s open positions available on your website makes it easy for all of us to access. Fantastic candidates can find it, friends of great candidates can share it with friends (or the candidate can find it themselves if their friend forgets to forward the posting), and selfishly, we can actually post it on our social media accounts and jobs board.
Hiring is the most important job many of us do, and the leader of an organization can make profound change for the better or worse.
Benefits are important. So is being upfront about what you offer.
A report on pay equity in the reproductive justice, rights, and health movement organizations.
Economic justice is reproductive justice but unfortunately the repro movement has a long way to go before we achieve either. We often talk about the need for more diverse candidates and the need to center the leadership of people most impacted by systems of oppression but if organizations continue to be unaware or simply ignore the economic realities that many of us face, the movement will continue to suffer.
As women of color research fellows for Pay Our Interns, we advocate for other women of color interns to be fairly and equitably compensated in Congressional internships. So we’re here to push other organizations to do the same. Enough is enough! It’s time to put an end to harmful practices that demand unpaid labor from BIWOC*.
This year has already been the worst, longest collective year in existence because of this pandemic, why should hiring continue the same practices making it even more stressful?
How you read a job description to get the most information out of it, and to get hints at what the organization's culture is like, is a honed skill.
So many hiring practices that social justice organizations use don't match their values or their work, and as a result, cause them to miss out on the very candidates they are allegedly recruiting: "diverse" hires.
Scroll through these questions and practice your answers to help you feel confident for your next job interview.
It's the right thing to do, and will encourage more diverse candidates who are a better fit for the position to apply.
Ask yourself these questions before tacking on this requirement to your next job description.
Your workplace needs to be accessible for people with disabilities. Here's what you can do to make that happen.
Transitioning into reproductive health, rights, and justice from another field? Start here.