Reasons to Volunteer
Gain Valuable Life Experiences
Whether you build houses for the homeless or mail flyers for a local politician, you’ll experience the real world through hands-on work. These tangible experiences will help you in directing your interests within your major and career field. These experiences can also be used as stories you use in your personal statement and cover letter when transferring to four year universities.
Meet Valuable People
Whether you build houses for the homeless or mail flyers for a local politician, you’ll be interacting and networking with people from your community, who have valuable and interesting things to share with you. Because volunteering brings together a wide variety of people, it becomes a great chance for you to make connections with people who have different insights and who might become important references to use for resume enhancing or job references.
Develop Valuable Skills
Whether you build houses for the homeless or mail flyers for a local politician, you’ll develop valuable skills. From interpersonal communication and leadership skills to planning events and marketing; through volunteering you gain and acquire skills that will come in handy in any kind of job or experience. In addition, these developmental skills can later be added to enhance your resume.
Because it Makes You Look Valuable
Whether you build houses for the homeless or mail flyers for a local politician, you’ll be creating a good image for yourself. Basically, when you volunteer you are not only giving your self to the organization and its needs, but you are signifying to other larger institutions that you are an active and “good” citizen. This is huge because larger institutions, i.e. the federal government, national corporations and educational institutions, work around the attitudes and natures of its people. Thus, when they see that community service and being civically involved matters to you they will respond accordingly, either through providing grants and fellowships or they might just give you free things when you volunteer. But, it’s important to recognize that these things do not always happen, but it could if you do your research and you market yourself appropriately.
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