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Volunteering Your Brand 

PURPOSE: Build your “Personal Brand” through your volunteerism to help create greater market value with current and future employers…while also filling a gap if you lack experience for jobs that interest you.

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Volunteering
Your Brand 

PURPOSE: Build your “Personal Brand” through your volunteerism to help create greater market value with current and future employers…while also filling a gap if you lack experience for jobs that interest you.

Time: 30 Minutes 

STEP 1: Volunteer with an organization and focus on skills you want to develop; you will gain some additional experience that you may not have received otherwise. The organization may be open to specific requests since you are volunteering, and you might even find a mentor along the way.

STEP 2: Put your volunteer experience on your resume. The best place to include volunteer experience in your resume is the “work experience” section if:

  1. It’s very relevant to the job, or
  2. You’ve got very little paid experience, or
  3. You have a resume gap. 

STEP 3: TIP: Only 32% of applicants list volunteer work on a resume. Yet most managers prefer it. Put it on your resume, and you immediately jump into the top third of job seekers!

STEP 4: TIP: Animal shelter or Habitat for Humanity experience look great to hiring managers. Add relevant bullet points to make it fit the job you are applying for.

 

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