Bulk Up Your CV With Charity Work
Experience is key in this competitive job market, and people looking for a job may want to gain experience through work in the charity sector.
You can look on Gumtree for part time jobs or volunteer positions with charities, which will introduce you to many of the valuable skills you need in a work environment and make you a better candidate for employers.
Charity work can also help you figure out what you want to do as a career.
As many charities are large organisations, you can gain valuable experience in a number of sectors, whether that is retail experience in a charity shop or working in the offices for experience in PR or marketing, human resources, social outreach, IT, engineering and more.
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anikopromo
Commented 52 months ago - 9th January 2012 - 12:35pm
I absolutely agree, that volunteering and charity work are very important. That's why I'm here now in Cardiff, as an European volunteer from Hungary. After I finished my studies, I decided to spend a longer period of time abroad and doing something good. If you interested in this one, it calls European Voluntary Service: http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/european-voluntary-service_en.htm
And of course the experience from volunteering and charity work bulk up your CV.
Volunteering and Charity work is good, because:
- you can learn, explore and develop yourself
- the world will be more opened, you get lots of impressions, you never thought it's exist
- your social, communication and solving skills will be better
- it's always a good feeling after a work day, you have done something good and worthwhile
- you give a little bit, but you get extremely lot back: experience, friends...
Volunteering and Charity work is fun, make your CV better, which is in this cruel work world really important is. But there is something, what you get trough it, but you can't write down in you CV: the extremely good feeling, that you could help somebody and you did this person's day better.
PS3Girl
Commented 51 months ago - 8th February 2012 - 15:51pm
I love doing charity work, last year i done somethings for Red Nose Day. I done,
- dress funny for money,
- sponsored run,
- sponsored silence,
and more.
By myself i raise about £200 maybe more and it ALL went to charity. I am hoping to do something for Sports Relief and Children In Need this year
twilightcrazedxxx
Commented 51 months ago - 13th February 2012 - 20:08pm
I have raised money for cancer research (i do every year) and last red nose day I was silent for the whole day. It was really funny because we had to carry around whiteboards and every time we went into a different class, we had to hold up the whiteboard saying:
I would like to do a sponsered silence, is it ok if I do this?
By the end of the day everyone in my year was doing it, which was really annoying because they didn't start at the beginining if the day!!!!!!! : - &