# Recruiting fundraisers from other sectors

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2002/01/17/recruiting-fundraisers-other-sectors/
- Published: 2002-01-17T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.”

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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