VOLUNTEERING 2.0:

How Volunteering Can Advance Your Career

Thursday, February 17, 2010 at 1:00pm-2:00pm EST

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KEY CALL QUESTIONS:

How can I personally benefit from volunteering more often?

Why do potential employers want to see that you’ve volunteered?

What’s wrong with the traditional forms of volunteering?

What other ways are there to volunteer besides tutoring, cleaning up a beach, or feeding people?

How can I find volunteer experiences that allow me to use my skills and strengths?

Is volunteer experience from college enough or do I need more?

What’s more valuable to non-profits? My money or my time?

How can volunteering help me during a career transition beyond going from for-profit to non-profit?

About Catchafire:
Catchafire’s mission is to improve the quality of the pro bono experience by providing the opportunity for people to volunteer their skills in a powerful way. Our vision is to make it easy for every professional to volunteer their skills if they want to and to make it easy for every nonprofit and social enterprise to access and effectively use skills-based volunteers. We believe in providing efficient, effective, and meaningful pro bono experiences for both professionals and the organizations with whom they work. We believe that a good volunteer experience can transform someone’s life.


FEATURED GUEST:


Jane has a passion for reading, writing, and making history. She started her career at Oxford University Press where she quickly rose through the ranks to become an associate editor in world history. In 2007, Jane began volunteering for the Obama campaign in New York, mobilizing volunteers to travel to key states during the primaries. Jane followed her passion to South Philly for the final months of the general election where she worked with the greatest group of volunteers ever assembled (until Catchafire) to effect a ground-shifting change in American politics. Fresh off the victory, she headed to DC to help set up and manage the headquarter offices of the Presidential Inaugural Committee. Jane graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Barnard College at Columbia University. In her free time, Jane Slusser enjoys blogging about burgers with the illustrious Burger Club New York.

Visit Catchafire.org and sign up to volunteer your skills.

INTERVIEWER:



Jullien Gordon, The PurposeFinder, is the country’s leading voice on professional development & personal motivation, especially for young professionals & millennails. He has written two books, The 8 Cylinders of Success: How to Align your Personal & Professional Purpose and Good Excuse Goals: How to End Procrastination & Perfectionism Forever. Through his company, The Department of Motivated Vehicles, Jullien has inspired thousands via his national speaking tours, live & online courses, and online & offline publishing. Jullien received two masters degrees from Stanford University—his MBA and Masters in Education and is originally from Oakland, CA. For more, visit www.julliengordon.com.

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