Improving your employability
Volunteer to help you find employment or change careers
If you've been out of work for a while you might be finding it difficult to find paid employment. Volunteering can help you get experience and build up 'soft skills' like team-working, problem solving, communication and motivation that can help you move forward. Doing voluntary work also helps give you material for your CV, give you experience to reference and talk about at interviews and generally bring your experience up to date.
Volunteering can help you:
- develop your CV
- boost your confidence
- learn new skills
- gain a reference to take to employers.
Regardless of which benefit you are on doing voluntary work does not affect your benefits. Volunteering will not affect your benefits - find out more here.
Employment Mentoring Scheme
If you are wanting to get back to paid work and are already doing voluntary work, then we can help you build on the experience you are getting and help you work through any issues that you feel are preventing you from securing paid employment through our Mentoring programme. Find out more about it here.
Job Coaching
If you have experienced ill health or feel that you are still some way from getting back to work then our Job Coach may be able to help you. You can find out more here.
- – 30 March 2010
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Medhat Khattar
Volunteer Centre Edinburgh's mentoring scheme helped Medhat find work.