Comments on: To find your perfect job — Volunteer! http://careeradvice4u.com/find-perfect-job-volunteer/ Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:32:16 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Liz http://careeradvice4u.com/find-perfect-job-volunteer/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Liz Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:11:25 +0000 http://careeradvice4u.com/?p=504#comment-39 Volunteering may also help you during an interview particularly if there's a gap in your employment. Talking about your volunteering experience will show you are a caring, well rounded individual. Working in a nonprofit can be a bit chaotic sometimes, due to the lack of resources and organization, and this provides an opportunity to learn how to stay calm and flexible under stress, two qualities everyone needs. Volunteering may also help you during an interview particularly if there’s a gap in your employment. Talking about your volunteering experience will show you are a caring, well rounded individual. Working in a nonprofit can be a bit chaotic sometimes, due to the lack of resources and organization, and this provides an opportunity to learn how to stay calm and flexible under stress, two qualities everyone needs.

]]> By: Mike Stankavich http://careeradvice4u.com/find-perfect-job-volunteer/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Mike Stankavich Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:03:31 +0000 http://careeradvice4u.com/?p=504#comment-36 Sean, you are so right, volunteering can be a big help in your employment search. Two more good things about volunteering - you generally have more control over what time you make available, and sometimes you can get to expand your skillset by trying to learn/do work that you wouldn't be able to get hired to do as a job. Sean, you are so right, volunteering can be a big help in your employment search. Two more good things about volunteering – you generally have more control over what time you make available, and sometimes you can get to expand your skillset by trying to learn/do work that you wouldn’t be able to get hired to do as a job.

]]> By: William at DIY VIdeo Marketing http://careeradvice4u.com/find-perfect-job-volunteer/comment-page-1/#comment-34 William at DIY VIdeo Marketing Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:09:08 +0000 http://careeradvice4u.com/?p=504#comment-34 There's another benefit-- you can learn new skills and avenues to use them while volunteering. Most nonprofits and helping organizations are held together with paper clips & scotch tape, so you wind up doing a dozen different things. Which is a chance to find out new ways of looking at your own path. I had my own career-changing revelations while volunteering. (One was that I didn't want to work in a nonprofit!) Got lots of important self-knowledge, some new Big Ideas about the world, and made a LOT of great connections. Good times! There’s another benefit– you can learn new skills and avenues to use them while volunteering. Most nonprofits and helping organizations are held together with paper clips & scotch tape, so you wind up doing a dozen different things. Which is a chance to find out new ways of looking at your own path.

I had my own career-changing revelations while volunteering. (One was that I didn’t want to work in a nonprofit!) Got lots of important self-knowledge, some new Big Ideas about the world, and made a LOT of great connections. Good times!

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