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Volunteering in Buenos Aires? 5 tips on how to add it to your resume.
When applying for work of any kind, volunteer, paid, etc, our work resumes are what tells our future employers who we are, what we have done, and what we can do. Volunteer work is often seen as a difficult ‘experience’ to add to ones resume as there is an uncertainty around how to categorize it, explain it, etc, so here are 5 helpful tips to add your volunteer work to your resume.
1. Do not be afraid to put your volunteer experience under your work experience title. Use this at your own discretion and just make sure that there is an indication that that experience was a volunteer position.
2. Do not use the word ‘volunteer’ as a job title. Use your job title from the volunteer work to put as the job title. (ex: project manager, veterinarian assistant, etc.)
3. Describe your volunteer work in accomplishments and skills; if you and your volunteer team made any achievements, write it down; any new skills that you learned, write them down. This is what an employer wants to see.
4. Make sure to write down what you learned from your volunteer work and what you are now capable of. Explain your new found skills, how you learned them, and how you are able to use them.
5. Be proud of your volunteer work. Do not leave your volunteer work at the bottom of all your experiences, and do not undermine the work you did. Volunteer work may be unpaid does that not mean that it is any less valuable than paid work, in fact, most employers look at volunteer experience as a great attribute, one that shows them you are willing to work for something you believe in, without the obvious monetary rewards.
For more information about volunteering in Buenos Aires, click here!
