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Volunteer work has many benefits, including building up your skills and making new contacts. If you are unemployed, or between jobs, or straight out of college, you might want to consider a volunteer post.

Volunteering helps you: Develop new skills

Volunteering gives you an opportunity to reinvent yourself. It allows you to learn a new skill or sharpen your old ones as most organisations provide training to get you off the ground. While not all the skills you learn will transfer over to a potential job opportunity, it will show prospective employers that you are willing to take on new challenges. 

Volunteering helps you: Update your CV

For those who have been out of a job for a while, or maybe just graduated, a volunteer stint would be an added addition to your CV. Not only will it show that you have built professional skills, but that you have interpersonal skills. Your time spent helping others in your community when you were unemployed, will impress a potential employer. 

Volunteering helps you: Network

Volunteering gives you the rare chance to interact with people of different backgrounds and perspectives. Strike up conversations with other volunteers and people you meet. Give out your contact information or ask for theirs where appropriate. You will never know who might be impressed and ask you for an interview.

Note: Experts advise that you choose an association or volunteer role that matches up with your background as this will not only help you hone your skills, but it’ll also allow you to meet people in that particular field.

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