1. Volunteering as a Career Builder
Rachael Candee
United Way of Central Indiana
Robin Springstead
Catholic Charities of Fort Wayne

2. Career Builder Toolkit: discussions
and activities for today
Purpose: research trends and development
Toolkit content: assessments and activities
Experience the assessments and activities
Volunteer motivations
Volunteer service on resumes
Volunteer managers and volunteer skill
development

3. Volunteerism and career debate
• Are we looking at the wrong issue?
• Do we really hire only for skills
and abilities?
• Do volunteers care about the
employment impacts?
• Can unemployed people really
take time to focus on
volunteerism?
• Can volunteer activities give
employees the right skills?

4. Volunteerism and career research
trends
• People want to work for
companies that support
volunteerism
• We perceive volunteerism as
helping our career
• Nonprofits believe in the capacity
building of skilled volunteers but
don’t engage professional skills
among volunteers overall
• Skilled volunteering is important
to HR professionals, especially
for those transitioning into
careers
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5. Takeaways
• Volunteerism does help, but it does not help everyone in
the same way
• The type of service performed by a job-seeking volunteer
can matter in their job search
• Perception is key, both for volunteers and hiring managers
• Nonprofits and businesses see the value of skilled
volunteer engagement but we do not do it well yet
• Volunteer managers play a role in the career-search
• How do we define our role?
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6. Toolkit content: overview
• Volunteering on the job
• Tools for volunteer managers
Position
Knowledge
Assessment
Motivations
Volunteer resume
Advancement
Resume
Support
Cover letter
Recruitment
Job
Development
• Volunteering and your job search
Growth
Abilities
Networking
• Selecting a skill-building position
Skills
Interview
• Skills & Competencies
Competencies
• Interests & Motivations
Career
Interests
Volunteer
• Introduction
Toolkit Job search
Management
Sections
Training

7. Toolkit content: review of activities
Assessments & Activities
• Case studies
• Interests & Motivations
• Skills & Competencies
• Aligning volunteerism with professional goals
• Discussing volunteering in interviews/while networking
• Sample job-search documents
• Employee Volunteer Program Resources
• Sample volunteer management documents

8. Experience the assessments:
volunteer motivations
Volunteer motivations assessment
• Recognizing our motivations matters
• Retention, growth, satisfaction
• Altruism is not the only reason to
volunteer
• Finding the right position
• Complete the assessment
• Share with a partner: do your results
surprise you?
• Why might this assessment matter to
you?
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9. Experience the assessments:
volunteer skills in career-search
Volunteer skills and your resume
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Consider how you might develop a career
resume using volunteer experience
•
What is a volunteer resume?
•
In groups of 3-4, discuss these questions
• How would you describe a volunteer
experience on the career resume? On a
volunteer resume?
• What are best practices for using volunteer
experience on a resume?
• Practice using the sample experiences on
your own
• What do you prefer about either a regular
resume or use of a volunteer resume?
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10. Experience the assessments
Why does volunteer position development
matter?
How could a program benefit from focusing on
volunteer development?
• Go back to your group of 3-4 people
• Practice developing a position that highlights
skills needed and developed
• What benefits could a position like this
provide to your organization?
• Where could you find training for the
volunteer related to this position?
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11. Assessment’s value and toolkit use
Volunteering as a Career Builder Toolkit focuses on giving volunteers,
volunteer managers and professionals, the opportunity to think
about volunteerism in a new way.
Toolkit will be available electronically
How will this toolkit be used in the future?
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12. How to access to toolkit
Sign-up on the sheets being passed around!
Anticipated delivery: November 2013

13. Questions?
Thank you!

14. Sources
Third Sector Research Center. Paine, McKay & Moro, 7/2/2013
http://www.tsrc.ac.uk/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=tGaSOT2tnRU%3d&tabid=1016
Cambridge Policy Consultant. Links Between Employability and Volunteer. Hirst, 2001.
http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/4618/1/RR309.pdf
Volunteering & Employability: Cause or Effect. Ellis. 8/2013
http://www.energizeinc.com/hot/2013/13aug.php
Deloitte. Volunteer IMPACT Research, 2004-2013
http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_US/us/About/CommunityInvolvement/f0d3264f0b0fb110VgnVCM100000ba42f00aRCRD.htm
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