December 17, 2020
(updated February 21, 2021)
Published by Dennis Velco
OutBüro is the LGBTQ professional and entrepreneur online community network for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, allies and our employers who support LGBTQ welcoming workplace equality focused benefits, policies, and business practices. https://www.OutBuro.com For LGBTQ Professionals Building meaningful professional connections can have a huge impact on your career. It’s like Glassdoor.com and LinkedIn hooked up and had a queer baby.
(OutBüro) is fascinating and much more aligned with the UN’s Global LGBTI Standards for Business than most indexes! – Fabrice Houdart – Human Rights Officer @UN #LGBTQ #WorkPlaceEquality #CorporateEquality
Being an entrepreneur is often lonely, challenging, thrilling, scary, and exciting. Magic and miracle happen when we believe in ourselves AND take action.
You are not only learning your chosen topics at school, you are likely learning a lot about yourself too. You must build your network organically long before you need it.
Increase your exposure locally, regionally, nationwide, and internationally in the LGBTQ community and with companies/brands. Attract quality talent from volunteers, interns, professionals, and board members.
Increase your exposure locally, regionally, nationwide, and internationally in the LGBTQ community and with companies/brands. Attract quality talent from volunteers, interns, professionals, and board members.
December 6, 2019
(updated December 6, 2019)
Published by Dennis Velco
Does your company donate to Pro-LGBT and anti-LGBT politicians at any level of government from city, county, state/region to federal/national? Utilize www.OutBuro.com as your employer branding platform to proactively list your political donations with a brief reasoning why it was important to the company. We don’t always agree with every political stance of a politician and in life and business sometimes has to interact with persons or organizations who may not share 100% of our own views.
Politicians who are known to be anti-LGBTQ may be in a position that s/he is still important to the company and its ability to grow and thrive. By being proactive and annotating it on your OutBüro LGBTQ Employer Branding record you are getting ahead of the conversation before LGBTQ organizations and journalists report about you negatively. Provide a full record annotating everything that you do for your LGBT employees and the community so that it is easy to see how great of an employer you are. Be proactive. We want you to shine.
See the Support page for all currently available site user guides.
December 5, 2019
(updated December 5, 2019)
Published by Dennis Velco
Did you know not a single LGBTQ corporate equality index around the world takes YOUR voice as the LGBT employee into account? That is why on www.OutBuro.com it is so important for you to rate/review your employer to provide them an LGBTQ Corporate/Workplace Equality rating that is based on what YOU say, the employee, because YOUR voice matters. Join the site at no cost and if your current or recent past employer is not already on the site you may add them also at no cost.
Employers may claim/add their listing. Their annual subscription is based on the total number of employees. It is very affordable for small businesses and competitively priced for large.
See the Support page for all currently available user guides.
December 5, 2019
(updated December 5, 2019)
Published by Dennis Velco
Are you a diversity and inclusion consultant or a diversity inclusion professional at an employer? OutBüro is for you. From seeking LGBTQ employee candidates to leveraging the site as an Employer Branding platform indicating all the company/organization LGBTQ friendly policies, benefits and business practices from proactive LGBTQ employee recruitment, political contributions, LGBTQ inclusive marketing, sponsorship of LGBTQ owned business and/or community organizations, monitor ratings/reviews from LGBTQ current and recent past employees, to hosting your LGBTQ Employee Resource Group online in an OutBüro Group, and more.
We want you and your organization to shine. Any employer. Any size. Anywhere in the world. Invite your employees to rate/review your organization today. Contact us to learn more.
See the Support page for access to all current site user guides.
December 4, 2019
(updated December 4, 2019)
Published by Dennis Velco
OutBüro is your employer branding platform to demonstrate everything your company/organization has and does to support your LGBTQ Corporate Equality efforts supporting your employees, customers, and shareholders. We want you to shine and thrive. No matter your legal status (for-profit, non-profit, government entity or other). Any size of your organization from 5 – 500,000 employees. Anywhere in the world.
If you have LGBTQ employees and/or would like to attract quality candidates www.OutBuro.com is your comprehensive LGBT employer branding platform.
Visit the site to learn more and contact us if you have any questions and would like to talk about how you can leverage the site to grow your presence in the LGBT community.
December 3, 2019
(updated December 3, 2019)
Published by Dennis Velco
Are you an employer with LGBTQ employees? OutBüro is for any employer type, any size and anywhere in the world. Utilize it as an employer branding and ratings/review monitoring tool to demonstrate all that you do for your LGBTQ employees, clients, and customers in a single consolidated platform. Engage, attract and demonstrate how great your organization is in all that you do.
Indicate the number of employees you have total and how many are known to be out as LGBTQ, in addition, add who is the highest-ranking LGBTQ employee in your organization. Numerous studies have clearly demonstrated when an organization fully embraces LGBTQ Corporate Equality they improve their financial bottom line due to many factors. Clean or add your employer branding record on www.OutBuro.com today.
First, register for a free professional account and complete your profile. See the Support page for instructions as needed. Links provided below to get you started.
December 2, 2019
(updated December 3, 2019)
Published by Dennis Velco
Are you an angel investor, venture-capital fund or company that is opened and or proactively seek out LGBT owned businesses to invest in or sponsor? www.OutBuro.com is a platform for you to find LGBTQ owned businesses to consider. Indicate on your OutBüro LGBTQ professional profile that you are an angel investor or venture-capital fund or another funding resource so that business owners may search for you.
Leverage the system to seek those looking for funding too. Add your OutBüro LGBTQ employer listing for your company and indicate who you sponsor and/or fund. Those businesses or non-profit organizations can in return on their OutBüro LGBTQ employer listing indicate that you are their funding source. Join today. Your professional profile is free and your employer record is based on the number of employees that you have in your direct legal entity.
Indicating Investor or Sponsor Funding on Your Profile
1. Choose About to view your professional profile.
2. Scroll down to locate the Business Funder section. Click the Edit button.
3. Make your selection(s) from the drop-down then click the Save button.
The options are:
Nope not me
Individual Investor
Angel Investor
Venture Capital Investor
Business Loans
Business/Organization Sponsor
Grants
Other
4. The field visibility option is set administratively as viewable by site members only.
Employer Listing – Funding Available for LGBTQ Owned Businesses or Organizations
For companies and investors, also claim/add your Employer Listing to indicate your funding types for LGBTQ owned businesses and/or non-profits.
November 30, 2019
(updated December 6, 2019)
Published by Dennis Velco
Networking with other LGBTQ professionals, entrepreneurs, and recruiters of LGBTQ Workplace Equality employers enables you to advance your career and business. But no one likes a social media site with a bunch of blank profiles. Get the most of your OutBüro LGBTQ professional profile.
As you complete more of your Therefore on www.OutBuro.com profile you unlock the features of this site being able to participate in the activity stream and so much more such as posting articles that will appear on the site blog and participating in online groups. Further, you have the ability to, interact and engage with others, post photos of your work such as if you are an artist your portfolio, post videos, join and participate in group and more. Come help create an LGBT professional and entrepreneurial global community where you belong and your voice matters.
See the Support page for user guides for instructions on completing your OutBüro LGBTQ professional profile.
November 27, 2019
(updated December 6, 2019)
Published by Dennis Velco
Many corporations and other employers who focus on LGBTQ Corporate Equality are actively seeking you to join their organization. They are working hard to develop and maintain an LGBTQ friendly workplace that celebrates diversity, inclusion. Many studies have proven that doing so helps the company thrive by increasing productivity, creative problem solving and its financial bottom line.
Add your LGBTQ professional profile on OutBüro (OutBuro.com) and complete it as much as possible to unlock all the online community features. Indicate your if you are passively or actively seeking a new job opportunity, your willingness to trave and your willingness to relocate. It makes it easy for recruiters to find just the candidate they are looking for – YOU.
When logged into your OutBüro account you will see your community navigation area in the right column.
Current Employment Status
1. Choose About to view your professional profile.
2. Scroll down to find the Current Employment Status area and then Click the Edit button.
3. Make the appropriate choices.
4. Click the blue Save button.
5. As with nearly every profile field, you have control over the level of visibility of each. The button label will display the current setting and by clicking it you may make a change if you desire. The choices are:
Public (non-logged-in site visitor may be able to see it although we require persons to be registered and logged in to view all areas of the community features)
Site Members
Friends Only
Only Me
Willingness to Relocate
Once on your profile About page via the steps above, scroll to find the Willingness to Relocate section, choose Edit, make your selection and click Save.
Willingness to Travel
Once on your profile About page via the steps above, scroll to find the Willingness to Travel section, choose Edit, make your selection and click Save.
Complete at least 50% of your profile fields to unlock all the site’s community features.
November 25, 2019
(updated December 26, 2019)
Published by Dennis Velco
Do you want to attract business opportunities or perhaps attract a new employment opportunity from an LGBTQ inclusive and welcoming employer who supports LGBTQ corporate equality?
If so, be sure to complete your www.OutBuro.com LGBTQ professional profile including uploading a professional headshot and a profile header that is beautiful captivating and says something about your interests personally or professionally. Make it stand out, captivate, and shine
As a community, it is important to create a sense of credibility. Part of doing so is sharing your professionally-oriented headshot image on your profile. As you engage in the community it will be what other members regularly see. If you post articles on the site, it will be included in your Author Box at the end of every article you post. This is a professional and entrepreneur focused site, so keep all your content including images to that standard.
From your profile, hover your mouse over the default user profile image.
When the camera image appears, click.
The Change Avatar window appears.
Select “Upload Photo” and then a local file manager window will appear. Browse your drives to locate your image and select as you do in all other applications. Once done it will upload and appear similar to the following.
Notice the circle image on the right of the screen. This is how your image will appear. To adjust choose the “Crop image” button.
Drag and resize the shaded area selector as you like. When done click the blue “Save Thumbnail” button to preview. If not perfect, no problem, just choose the “Crop Image” button and redo. Once done choose the “Done” button.
From your OutBüro profile page click the camera image in the top right area of your profile header image area.
The options of Reposition and Modify will appear due to the default profile header being present. Choose Modify to add your own image.
The Change Cover Photo box will appear. Choose Upload Photo. A typical file manager system window will appear. Navigate your system to locate the image you want, then select it and choose “Open” or whatever the choice is on your system.
In our example, the image is a large file and not fully showing.
We can reposition it so that the best parts of the image is viewable. Select the camera icon and this time select the Reposition link. Next, simply click on the image holding down your mouse button and drag the image up or down until it’s positioned as you like. Finally, click the save button.