If you are looking for a job, you are likely spending a lot of time perusing job boards and staying on top of the latest vacancy announcements. While applying to jobs is an important aspect of any job search, what you may not know is many positions are never even advertised.
Whether it’s because they are under a time crunch, do not have the capacity to sift through potentially hundreds of applications or are afraid of signaling to competitors when they are hiring for a proposal, many employers do not advertise all of their open positions. Instead, many of them turn to resources like Devex to proactively find and recruit candidates they think will be a good fit for their needs.
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Kate Warren@KateDWarren
Kate Warren is Executive Vice President and resident talent and careers guru at Devex. With 15 years of global development recruitment experience advising international NGOs, consulting firms, and donor agencies, she has a finger on the pulse of hiring trends across the industry and insider knowledge on what it takes to break in.
