How can an HR professional transition from the nonprofit to the for-profit sector? Also, what if you’ve only worked for one organization and been promoted several times, but don’t have experience at other types of companies. What is the best way to handle this?
Alberto, New York City
There is a bias (though it is lessening all the time) that people working for nonprofit organizations don’t understand the profit imperative in commercial enterprises.
It’s your job to make it clear in your communications with potential employers that the major benefit to working for nonprofit groups is that you are used to doing more with less under exactly the same performance standards and deadline obligations.
