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Welcome bloomers, Here is your summary of the newsletter this week: 🌱 2 job search strategies in career transitions 🌱 Google's early-career creative fellowship 🌱 Kofi Annan democracy global youth prize with love & light, Jasmine Did a friend forward you this email? Sign up to get your own copy of The Bloom to your inbox with top social impact jobs, uplifting stories, and global resources. Partner with us! We're looking forimpactful organizations to partner with The Bloom to bring connections, resources, and opportunities to our global community.
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❓COMMUNITY QUESTION
I have a number of years of experience in the social impact space but have primarily been in communications, and I want to move into UX research and program management. So far I haven't had any success making a lateral move. Do I have to go to graduate school to make this transition?
❤️CAREER COACH REFLECTION Seems like you have really a clear why and motivation and now transitioning from a comms role to UX research and PM ✨
2 Job Search Strategies for a Successful Career Transition
Can also be interesting to already know some unconventional & high impact job search strategies you can use in this career transition – that if you feel confident to try them can also help you just focus on job search now or during your educational journey you decide to embark:
1) Connect with people who has made a similar transition to discover how to enter on the field
I would consider connecting with people who are doing the UX research & management/PM work you aspire to do. This can help you get valuable information on how you can bring your story together and give you more clarity on how to enter the field whilst deciding if and which educational programs can be of more relevance for you now or in the future!
PS: Consider getting specific on your searches of people in LinkedIn who for example combine a similar background than you in comms and work in UX so when you reach out to them you can link to that and then they can also be the most relevant people to help you get more a clear picture on how to enter the field, how to use your background etc.
Here is an inspiration message you can send in LinkedIn:
[NAME], your professional journey really stood out to me. I’m very interested in building my career in [role] also coming from a communications background in social impact.Since you’ve been in that transition, would you have some time to offer me a bit of advice on pursuing this? I would really appreciate a brief call at your convenience.
2) Test your path & target opportunities with mini volunteering projects
This one is the one that can help you most in gaining experience in this career transition into UX/PM & focus your efforts in your job search and target better jobs.
Following the connecting strategy, one of the questions you can ask is what is one challenge their team is experiencing or try to discover one of their key strategic priorities – you can also try to find this via research in their UX design and experience (so sometimes no need to do an informational interview for this as well.)
This is a more advanced strategy to build experience in UX/PM and focus your efforts in a job search showing your skills. All by targeting better jobs by testing your path forward and target opportunities with various mini volunteering projects.
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Curated collection of fellowships, grants, awards, competitions – because there are many opportunities to branch out, beyond a traditional 9 – 5 jobs.
📚 Fellowships
Google's Creative Fellowship: A prestigious paid program designed by Google to nurture and support emerging creative talent. It offers participants the chance to engage in ongoing mentorship, networking, and hands-on experience across Google’s diverse in-house creative teams. If you’re an emerging creative thinker with 0 to 5 years of experience, bursting with innovative ideas and a passion for storytelling, this program is tailored for you. To be eligible, you must be located in the United States and authorized to work there.
7000 Languages Revitalization Fellowship: As a fellow, you’ll collaborate within your community to design lessons, create project plans, and deliver free language learning technology tools. Join a cohort to learn about language revitalization tools, practices, and strategies. If you’re passionate about reclaiming, revitalizing, or preserving your ancestral language, apply today! No college/university enrollment required, and candidates from all over the world are encouraged to apply.
Asia/Pacific Region Food Security Fellowship: Capacity-strengthening opportunity for field-based emergency and resilience food security implementers who are interested in using qualitative methods to increase gender and youth inclusion. Over three months, a cohort of 16-20 members participate in both an in-person workshop, regular online meetings, and independent work to develop innovative solutions to increase gender and youth inclusion in their programs. Fellowship for Youth Changemakers in Canada: AstraZeneca Canada and Plan International Canada are looking for inspiring youth changemakers across the country to join us in our quest to make Canada – and the world – a healthier and more sustainable and equitable place.
💸 Grants & Awards
Kofi Annan NextGen Democracy Prize: Know a young leader anywhere around the world who has shown exceptional leadership in promoting or defending democracy? Nominate them for the second edition of the Kofi Annan NextGen Democracy Prize.
UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education: This prize recognizes and celebrates the remarkable efforts of individuals and organizations in advancing girls’ and women’s education, with each laureate receiving an annual award of USD 50,000.
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In our fast-growing community platform, you can connect directly to a diverse network of extraordinary social & environmental impact leaders and build relationships of reciprocity. Here's a few Asks & Offers in the community this week: 🌱Sanne: Are you a social impact freelancer or creative working on social impact issues? Are you craving community, connection and inspiration? You can now sign up for the Social Impact Squad’s remote coworking spring cycle!I'm sharing this initiative I started which might be of interest to the social impact creatives and freelancers here. All spots in the last cycle were filled up and everyone was very positive about the quality of the connections and support gained. I've tried to make it as valuable as a community so that everyone gets to work on their specific needs while finding community ( because let's be real, working independently to change social impact issues can get pretty lonely😅). Feel free to drop me a line if you have any questions 💕
🌱Kathryn: Hi all! I have an offer that's a bit specific-- but if there are any freelance editors in this group, read on! I've been doing academic editing on the side for 4-5 years but lately have had less capacity for small projects that come my way. I mainly work with PhD students in Europe publishing in medical and humanities research. I'd love to have another person or pool of people I can refer out to when something comes my way that I can't take on. If you have experience and are interested, please let me know! 📝❣️
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grow new roots
Hand-picked job opportunities and employers we love around the world, selected from a diverse team of social impact leaders behind the scenes at The Bloom who are excited for you to grow new roots in your career.
🤎 Social Impact Employer Spotlights
Persistent Climate venture builder in Sub-Saharan Africa driving climate friendly investments in the distributed renewable energy, e-mobility, energy efficiency, eco-system enablers and other climate technologies. They believe that building commercially successful climate impact ventures in emerging markets can both make the world a better place and provide attractive financial returns.
Malala Fund Works for a world where all girls can learn and lead. They don’t build schools; they build networks. Inspired by Malala and Ziauddin’s activist roots, Malala Fund believes that local educators and advocates provide the greatest insight, innovation and energy needed to address barriers that keep girls out of school in their communities.
Mongabay Award-winning environmental science and conservation news organization (in 7 languages) that publishes original news on a daily basis to a global audience of conservation scientists, private-sector decision-makers, government policymakers, civil society organizations. Mongabay’s readership across its news sites positions the organization as one of the top sources of environmental news, analysis, information, and inspiration on the Internet.
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