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Career guide

Employers today are looking beyond the qualifications printed on a candidate’s resume – there is another level of assessment that determines an applicant’s suitability for a given role, and the qualities include soft skills like communication skills and interpersonal skills. These need not be taught in curricula or salaried jobs, and can be learnt through life’s experiences outside work. Volunteering for projects and causes is one way of achieving this.

Who can take up volunteer work?

Volunteering can be taken up by students pursuing their college degrees to build confidence and also by people in between jobs and those contemplating a career switch to showcase their enthusiasm and drive to learn.

Why volunteer?

• Learn new skills – Volunteering provides an opportunity to work on domains that could be quite distant from your career field, but can equip you with skills that will take you ahead in your career (team work,leadership qualities, communication skills, etc).
• Let your resume shine – A volunteer work experience also adds weight to your resume by showcasing your diverse interests outside job and allows recruiters an insight to your personality. It gives them a substantial reason to hire you against someone just looking for a fat paycheque.
• Build professional and personal network – Volunteer work means reaching out to the society, approaching and interacting with people from different backgrounds. This can be a potential contact building ground for you – you might gain valuable leads to a new job and/or references for potential employers from people who have seen you spare time and effort for a social cause, and make friends too.
• Gain valuable perspective about your work and life – Let not only your work at office define you. By taking out time to connect with society through campaigns that interest you, you can lend purpose to your work days and weekends; interacting with people more challenged by life than you can help you become more appreciative of what you have rather than what you don’t, and even maker work stress more manageable.

By signing up for volunteer work you not only take an initiative to help others, you help yourself too to lay strong bricks in career building and add value to both professional and personal life.