The global development job market remains tough, but if you want to continue doing purpose-driven work, your skills will be in demand, particularly with an increasingly diverse set of stakeholders. This is why many are seeking ways to pivot into different areas of the broader social impact space.
There are going to be spaces both in the traditional ways we think about development today [and] new spaces and entrepreneurial spaces that are going to be emerging quickly tomorrow that need your talents,” Fatema Sumar, executive director of the Harvard Center for International Development, said during a Devex Career event earlier this year.