Volunteerism & Job Market
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The document discusses how intentional volunteerism can help students find the right fit and gain skills that are valuable to employers, it outlines trends in the job market that show volunteering improves chances of finding employment, and it provides tips for selling volunteer experience on resumes and advice on whether to pursue graduate school immediately or gain work experience first.
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Volunteerism & Job Market
- 1. Volunteerism & The Job Market: Connecting the Dots Ashley Meadows Miller Success Coach Lindsey Wilson College
- 2. Agenda Intentional Volunteerism • Finding the Right Fit • Treat volunteering like a job • Put your coursework into practice Job Market Trends/Liberal Arts Education Selling Volunteerism to Employers • CLA’s are your friend • The art of Resume wording • Practice makes Perfect Graduate School: Go or No Go?
- 4. Intentional Volunteerism • Finding the Right Fit – Meaningful volunteer jobs • Fuel or Fissile passion • Narrow your field • New contacts & insider information into future openings • Skills or expertise closely aligned with your goals
- 5. Meet Alex “My passion for Alzheimer's Disease came from going through my Grandmother's journey with dementia. As a Bonner, I volunteered with the local nursing home and adult day center, and then did my summer of service with the Alzheimer's Association in 2014. I continued to volunteer with association events, driving all across the state. When my summer of service supervisor took a new position, she let me know that I would be dealing with a different coordinator, and I asked if I could apply. The rest is history.”
- 6. Intentional Volunteerism • Treating volunteer work as a job – Respond to Telephone and Email Messages Promptly – Always arrive to your site early – Communicate in cases of emergency or illness – NEVER just not show up – EVER
- 7. Intentional VolunteerismIntentional Volunteerism • Backstage • An area away from customers or clients • Ask about cell phone use policies • Careful not to engage in Badmouthing or Bashing • Onstage • An area where customers or clients can see you, hear you or both • Smile - it goes a long way! • Practice empathy
- 8. Intentional Volunteerism • Little things matter most to employers • Learn how they take their coffee • If a stapler is empty - fill it • "That is not my job“ NEVER utter these words - even if you're thinking it • “Would it be possible for you show me how?"
- 9. Intentional Volunteerism • Story Time!
- 10. Intentional Volunteerism • Put your coursework to practice • Apply course principles to your Volunteer sites
- 11. Job Market Trends • The Corporation for National and Community Service 70,000 jobless people between 2002 and 2012 Those who volunteered had a 27% better chance of finding a job than those who didn’t.
- 12. Job Market Trends • The study — "Does It Pay to Volunteer?" — found that unemployed people who volunteered between 20 and 99 hours during the year were roughly 7% more likely to have found employment
- 13. Job Market Trends “Employers like to hire people who can demonstrate that they’re motivated and hard working, even if they haven’t been getting paid for their efforts lately. Volunteering can also provide you with an insider’s advantage if the nonprofit has an opening for a paid position.” Nancy Collamer, Contributor, Forbes Magazine
- 14. Job Market Trends National Association of Colleges & Employers, NACE, Fall 2016 Executive Summary Salary Survey
- 15. Selling your Volunteer Work • Get Resume Help • Formatting matters! • Use your CLA to your Advantage • Use your Career Services Office
- 16. Selling your Volunteer Work • Resume formatting • Treat your Primary CLA like a job
- 17. Selling your Volunteer Work • Education Major
- 18. Selling your Volunteer Work • Accounting Major
- 19. Selling your Volunteer Work • History Major
- 20. Selling your Volunteer Work • Practice Time!
- 21. Graduate School: Go or No Go? Go! Benefits • Free tuition • Greater promotion potential • Narrow your field • Expand your network • Enhance your career No Go! Benefits • Additional Cost • Return on investment • Stressful • Requires even greater commitment to time management
- 22. Graduate School: Go or No Go? • Research, Research, Research! • Use your College’s network • Consider online programs from accredited colleges/universities • Grad school CAN wait • Never, Ever, Ever, Ever, think that you cannot achieve something!
- 23. Ashley Meadows Miller Success Coach (270) 250-2344 millera@lindsey.edu