{"id":1687,"date":"2011-03-02T19:08:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T17:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2011-03-02T19:08:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T17:08:45","slug":"still-job-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/archives\/2011\/03\/02\/still-job-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Still job hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a bit over two months since I came back from Haiti and started seriously looking for a new job. After two years as Office Manager in the finance sector (yeah, I know, not where I had expected to be either *g*) and turning 30 in January it was high time to find work where I could see myself for longer. And that meant not so much changing job description (I like admin work &#8211; working in a supporting function suits me) but radically switching sectors.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always known that it was important to be involved in something I can believe in &#8211; after all, we spend so much time at work and so much of it is usually routine, that I need to know <em>why<\/em> I&#8217;m doing it in order to stay motivated and content in the longer term. Therefore I&#8217;ve been looking pretty much exclusively in the non-profit sector, both in Switzerland and in the Southern UK (because of my SAD anything further North is unfortunately out of the question) &#8211; it&#8217;s slow going, but I have a couple of interviews lined up that look promising.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where I&#8217;m looking:<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/charityjob.com\" target=\"new\">CharityJob<\/a> (non-profit jobs, UK)<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charitypeople.co.uk\/\" target=\"new\">CharityPeople<\/A> (non-profit jobs, UK)<br \/>\n&#8211;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinfo.ch\" target=\"new\">Cinfo<\/A> (development aid, Switzerland, paid subscription)<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icrc.org\/eng\/who-we-are\/jobs\/vacancies\/index.jsp\" target=\"new\">ICRC<\/a> (International Red Cross, international\/Geneva)<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/ja.kampagnenforum.ch\/\" target=\"new\">Kampagnenforum: Job-Angebote<\/a> (non-profit jobs, Switzerland)<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.admin.ch\/dienstleistungen\/stellen\/angebote\/index.html?lang=de\" target=\"new\">Eidgen\u00c3\u00b6ssisches Personalamt<\/a> (government positions, Switzerland)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a bit over two months since I came back from Haiti and started seriously looking for a new job. After two years as Office Manager in the finance sector (yeah, I know, not where I had expected to be either *g*) and turning 30 in January it was high time to find work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-life","category-resources"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1688,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}