If you want to be certain that a new career is right for you, this book will contains vital information that will help professionals figure out if the career in the nonprofit sector is right for them. This reference shall likewise guide you on how to make a seamless transition into this sector. Topics from this book include an overview of nonprofits, transferable skills, searching for new jobs and updating your resume.

It also includes real life transition stories. Change Your Career: Transitioning to a Nonprofit Sector challenged the myths about the nonprofit hiring process, helps the workers weigh the pros and cons of nonprofit jobs and outlines the strategy for breaking into the sector. The author, Laura Gassner Otting, gives advices based from her own experiences working in the nonprofit and political worlds. She is the president of the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group, a search firm based in Newton Massachusetts that she founded. This book breakdowns some of the common myths about working in the nonprofit sector. The biggest myth that the book discussed is that you will starve if you take on a nonprofit job. Gassner explains that it depends on the work that you do and more importantly, the nature of work the organization does.

Most people do not realize how diverse nonprofits sectors are. This sector has a broad category such as hospitals, schools and trade groups as well as activist and culturist but Gassner cautions the workers about thinking that the nonprofit work represents a way to escape hard work and office politics. The nonprofit world can be difficult to navigate because so much of the reward is emotional, not monetary. The noble goals of the organizations can quickly lead to burn out because Gassner believes that this great purpose often places a heavy weight and even sometimes, a chip on the shoulders of those doing the work.