Volunteer for Experience

Volunteering can offer you some invaluable experience, networking opportunities, and can really enhance your job prospects! The information offered here is designed to help you make the most out of your volunteering, whether that be by improving your CV or opening up new career possibilities that you might never have considered.

There are a whole range of transferable skills you can gain from volunteering. Here are some skills that volunteering can help you build and develop.  For more information click here

Ever thought about a career in the charitable or non-governmental sector?
There are a number of websites with career information and they also advertise jobs in the sector:
 
In Ireland: www.activelink.ie
In the US: www.idealist.org
In the UK: http://jobs.thirdsector.co.uk/
 

Call into the Career Development Centre on campus to learn more about transferable skills and how to build your volunteering into your CV.  For more information click here

Ensure you not only mention your volunteering on your CV but also prepare to talk in an interview about your volunteering experience.  For more information click here
 

 
This session will highlight how to get the most out of your volunteering experience to enhance your career prospects.
Wed 8th February 2012
Meeting Room 2, Áras na Mac Léinn
5:00-6:00
Followed by pizza in the Hub!