Employers require that their prospective workers have high qualifications, valuable education, knowledge of foreign languages, in short: an interesting and rich CV. Experience proves to be an essential means of pursuing one’s career. Alas, how to gain it? Admittedly, applicants are supposed to possess essential experience yet prior to appearing for an interview.

There is one option, most interesting for many reasons as well as consuming little time in comparison with working on a full-time basis or chiefly while attending full-time studies. The answer is: volunteering. Any knowledge gathered as a volunteer will bring profits in the future. How come? Simple. Volunteering means you offer your free time, knowledge and skills and in return you make new acquaintances, master new skills, win satisfaction and gratitude.

Performance of a volunteer’s obligations does not only mean that you can do something useful and help other people but also flourish your own competences. The double feeling of fulfillment is what you end up with. Active participation in volunteering lets you learn new skills which will be indispensable in future career. Working with people equips you with the ability to cooperate in teams, provides new contacts, lets you recognize your strengths and weaknesses, make new friends. Volunteering is a splendid opportunity to be among people.

Volunteers’ work facilitates the acquisition of proficiency, which will undoubtedly come in useful in the understanding of a prospective employer. Holding a high-profile university diploma or certificate of fluency in several foreign languages is not enough these days. You must be able to indicate due practice in using the resources in everyday life. Empathy, passion, openness and spontaneity are the traits that you take in as a volunteer. A volunteer is a person of initiative, usually creative, both skills being of much importance to employers.

Taking into account the gigantic requirements of employers as well as the existence of hardly tolerable competition, volunteering may become the item to overbalance the scales in your favour. Where else should you happen to gain experience and master the skills that are so much craved by employers during the enrollment procedure.

Apart from personal development, we also promote assistance to other people and formation of self-esteem. We don’t waste time. We offer it to those who need our support. Even if we were never to get the jobs of our lives, we still won much more – the gratitude being an uncountable asset.

Tłumaczenie: M.G.