Reap the Rewards of Volunteering

Reap the Rewards of Volunteering

by Don Jolly

If you're fortunate enough to have a year ahead of you in which you can do anything you want, then how about volunteering? Not only does it give you a great sense of achievement, but it also makes your CV very interesting reading. So whether you want to travel halfway around the world to help an overseas aid agency, or stay somewhat closer to home, there are volunteering opportunities to suit you. Here are a few of the advantages of volunteering your time and expertise.

Not only will your volunteering experiences make reading your CV a much more enjoyable process, but potential employers look on volunteers as people with character, able to work equally well both independently and within a group environment. Traits like these are what employers are looking for these days.

Expanding on the employability front, the volunteering experience is also an excellent topic for discussion during an interview. With an array of tasks across the project, there will be multiple occasions worthy of greater discussion within these scenarios, as well as allowing individuals to boast the additional skills that have been gained. With much more to discuss and much more to offer, interviews can be improved by your volunteering experience.

Satisfaction is another of the rewards almost every volunteer will experience upon completion of their project. Knowing that your aid has helped those in need of assistance or your involvement has pushed society one step closer to tackling environmental issues allows all volunteers to feel a well deserved sense of accomplishment and pride.

Volunteering is also very much a learning experience - and what you'll learn, naturally, will depend on the type of volunteering work you undertake. Most of the skills you bring back home with you will stand you in good stead with employers of all kinds. But there's more to volunteering than just the skills you develop to help people, you're also developing skills to help you manage yourself, to be able to cope with sudden culture shocks and situations you'd never experience back at home.

But there's nothing to stop you volunteering for several projects throughout the course of your year: 12 months in the same environment can feel like a very long time, so many people choose to do some volunteering work in one country for a spell, and then move on. Multiple volunteering sessions like this can end up being expensive, what with travel and other associated costs, but then again part of the whole volunteering process is all about raising funds to cover those expenses. Whether you choose to travel by bicycle or by jetliner, volunteering gives you a whole fresh, new outlook on life that you'd never have developed purely by staying at home.



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