Recruiting fundraisers from other sectors

Howard Lake | 17 January 2002 | News

Charities are still failing to tap into the fresh supply of qualified and professional candidates with the right transferable skills who want to move into the voluntary sector, says Sarah Hands, Marketing and Fundraising Consultant at Charity People.

Charities are still failing to tap into the fresh supply of qualified and professional candidates with the right transferable skills who want to move into the voluntary sector, says Sarah Hands, Marketing and Fundraising Consultant at Charity People. “Approximately 60% of Charity People’s candidates are from outside the sector” she says, “and [they] are rethinking the reasons for working in the industry they are currently in.”

Read Where are all the good fundraisers hiding? by Sarah Hands at Charity People.

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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.