With unemployment rates near 10% and many young professionals searching for work, one recent graduate of Harvard Business School is doing his part to give individuals another way to stand out from the crowd. Mike McGlade, HBS 2009, created Zoosa, a website that gives professionals the opportunity to enhance their resume by connecting with nonprofit advisory boards and skills-based volunteer positions.

Zoosa aggregates the best social enterprise resources, including industry news and employment and volunteer opportunities, to create a single destination where professionals can learn about the renewable energy, education, and nonprofit sectors. While visiting Zoosa, individuals can create a social impact profile that highlights their professional skills, their offline actions, and their interests in certain social impact issues.

Although professional networks built around connecting passive job seekers with high level jobs already exist (e.g. LinkedIn, Plaxo), until Zoosa, there hasn’t been a way for organizations to find individuals who do not volunteer today, but would be willing to join a nonprofit board or donate their professional skills if asked. Given the tough economic climate, most current students, recent graduates, and experienced professionals will benefit from creating a social impact profile and adding specialized volunteer work to their resume.

After a successful launch last month, Zoosa has already become a useful tool for professionals searching for social impact news and opportunities. Several thousand news stories, blogs, and tweets are included in Zoosa’s community section and, with over 1,000 positions included in Zoosa’s jobs & volunteering section, professionals now have a single location to find all relevant positions without searching multiple sites. Organizations can post their open positions directly on Zoosa if they are not already included.