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How to find a CSR Job/Project (some thoughts)
We’ve recently had a few projects slowdown or stall and I think the same is happening to many projects, as many industries, especially extractives, are facing slowdown and budget crunches.
My advice is to focus on value. Find places where you think you can add value and that are interesting and then get involved in them.
Thirty years ago when I decided I wanted to get involved in the space where business meets society I started by working with Indigenous Peoples. I started in Canada and it soon turned international and global.
And, when I could find funding for it they also wanted access to the funding (and they had a need as well) and that often created challenges. I was often in a situation where I was literally competing with my client for resources that we both needed. Not fun, not sustainable and too easy for both of us to lose site of the original objectives that brought us together.
So, I stepped back and ended up, in about 1998, deciding that the extractive sector was the best place for me to add value as they had real costs and problems when trouble happened where they met with society – and this was a new area for them at the time.
Still a struggle but that at least gave me a focal point and clients/industry that were able to monetize value I could create.
Anyway, something to think about. Stay involved, stay engaged, read, write, network and always, always, always, look at value that can be created, and monetized and that you can find a way to share in.
But, be sure to start from where and how you can serve. Then narrow that to how serving others can also serve you.
Hopefully this has all been helpful.
(I didn’t want to make this post promotional so I didn’t mention the CSR training that we provide. If that is interesting you can see upcoming programs here)