Blog post 2

In The Social Entrepreneurship Handbook the author talks about how it is important to hire the right people for a non profit. He explains how current employees are important to bringing people into the company. If the employee has good experiences they will tell their friends and try to recruit them. Also to have a recruiting bonus will be a good incentive.

Also a good website is important at targeting people. He says that many people he has interviewed have talked about what they saw on the website. He also says to put video of the beneficiaries and have them talk about how the organization has directly helped them.

He also gives a forewarning about people who have an impressive resume and talks about wanting to switch from a for-profit job to a non-profit. When they get the job they bail on the company because they either got a raise from their boss or got another offer that was too good to turn down. This makes me think of people who act interested in something and just don’t show up or do the work that they are suppose to do. From my experience working in groups I think that it is vital to find people who are willing to work with you and be efficient and effective. Sometimes it is hard to get people like this, either they stray away from the project at hand which is something that the author continues to talk about in this chapter. He says that keeping your employees motivated and make sure that they know the mission of the company is important and to do this he suggests to get people are working in the offices to go out and see how their work actually helps people. When they gain experience and see things hands on they will be more motivated and work harder.