Volunteering to support your Career

Volunteering can be a great way of trying something new, building confidence and enhancing your employability.

People volunteer for all sorts of reasons, including:

• wanting to meet new people and make friends
• seeing it as a way to learn new skills (e.g. communication and teamworking skills) and to develop self-confidence, to boost their CV and improve job prospects
• wanting to find out if they are suited to a particular area of work
• needing to gain relevant experience (and perhaps a suitable qualification) to help with applications for jobs or training courses for a particular career, e.g. social work, counselling or nature conservation
• having a strong commitment to a cause - such as protecting the environment

Aside from the above, volunteering can improve mental health and wellbeing as well as end social isolation.

Come to our webinar to find out:

• where to find volunteering opportunities
• the ways that volunteering can help you
• the types of volunteering opportunities available - you will be amazed at the range of activities possible, including helping with fundraising, supporting people with learning difficulties, environmental & nature conservation and many more.

Webinars are delivered via Microsoft Teams

For new customers, we recommend that you have an appointment with a National Careers Service adviser before the webinar takes place.

In the appointment the careers adviser will help you to:

• explore different careers and options
• review your strengths, skills and develop your career goals
• plan your next steps
• make the best use of high-quality, career-related tools
• understand the local job market
• access learning, training, apprenticeship and employment opportunities, including making applications
• develop your CV, interview skills and job searching techniques
• implement your plan of action.

By giving us your personal information you are consenting to be contacted by telephone or email by the National Careers Service to arrange an appointment with a careers adviser prior to the webinar

Customers' information is collected so that the Department for Education can carry out its functions, information will be handled in accordance with the principles and laws of data protection and at no time will it be used for purposes that are not related to the delivery of careers advice by the National Careers Service. For further details of how customer data is used, please view the privacy policy on the National Careers Service website; https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/help/privacy-and-cookies (or at bit.ly/NcsPrivacy2)

What else do I need to know?

There may be other participants in the session, so you must take care not to reveal any of your personal data at any time. Our recommendation is that you do not supply, verbally or on screen, your full name, email address, telephone number or any other information which could identify you to other participants on the call. You must not share such data, to safeguard your interests and so that you do not make yourself vulnerable to any malicious activity. Some presentations may be recorded for training purposes.

The link for this webinar will be sent to you afew days before the event.