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How to Develop Career Skills Through Volunteering
Volunteering can create development opportunities that are difficult to reproduce through theory alone.
Volunteering can build
Event planning; communication; teaching; community engagement; fundraising; project coordination; social media; research; administration; leadership.
Make it deliberate
Choose responsibilities connected to a target skill. To make volunteering a deliberate development experience, choose roles that directly practice what you want to develop.
Record each project
What was the situation? What did I do? What skill did I use? What happened? What did I learn? This converts informal experience into usable evidence.
Knowing your skills is useful. Understanding where those skills come from, which abilities may support them, and where they can take you gives you a much clearer picture.
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