Other service resources on Idealist

Service Corps to Social Impact Career: A free book!

Service Corps to Social Impact Career – a companion to The Idealist Guides to Nonprofit Careers — is for prospective, current, and former participants of a wide range of service corps who want to use their service experience as a building block to their next steps. Written by Amy Potthast of Idealist.org, the book's sections are available as free PDFs.

The New Service blog

Idealist.org and partners have teamed up to create The New Service blog for people seeking careers or pursuing education in the nonprofit sector. The New Service is particularly of interest to current or former participants in term-of-service programs such as AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, and so on.

Idealist Podcast

The Idealist Careers, Grad School and Civic Life podcasts provide free, practical professional development advice to people in the public service world. Episodes features interviews with nonprofit professionals, many of whom have service experience.

Alumni resources

Check out our links to support for service corps alums.

Compare service corps

Check out some handy tables comparing service corps:

• "Comparison of Six Well-Known Service Corps" (PDF): AmeriCorps State and National, AmeriCorps VISTA, AmeriCorps NCCC, City Year, Peace Corps, and Teach For America.
• "Comparison of Six National Service Corps that Work in Schools" (PDF): Blue Engine, City Year, Inner City Teaching Corps of Chicago, MATCH Corps, NYC Teaching Fellows, and Teach For America.

Becoming a Stronger Candidate

Chapter Five of The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers discusses the career advantages of undertaking a term-of-service program. There are two versions of the Guide and this chapter—one for first-time job seekers and one for mid-career professionals and sector switchers.

Service corps and grad school

Read about special considerations for service corps alums who are thinking about graduate school, from Idealist's Grad School Resource Center

• BACK to Service corps as a career entry point and learning strategy.