Bringing Value to your Future Career through Skills-Based Volunteering
The future job market is evolving. As we transition into a more skills-based hiring system, jobs are becoming increasingly focused on what type of skills a potential candidate might bring to the table.
These changes bring about much fear to many, especially job seekers or even fresh graduates looking to make a career pivot, pursuing a path entirely different from one’s degree or course. How does one take small, concrete steps towards building a portfolio?
Skills-based volunteering is one of many routes to entering into a desired job role. There are various ways one can lend their skills, be it through graphic design for a non-profit, or even coordinating virtual volunteering projects between non-profits and skilled volunteers. At Skills for Good, we seek to meet the gap by matching skilled volunteers to non-profit organisations. At the same time, we’ve had many volunteers pivot into roles that are entirely different from their course, be it in marketing, communications or technology.
Skills-based volunteering is also more than just developing one’s domain-specific skills, but also includes soft skills such as stakeholder management, communication as well as collaboration. If you’re a potential volunteer or even a non-profit organisation in Singapore looking for skilled volunteers, head over to tinyurl.com/sfgprojects (for volunteers) and tinyurl.com/sfgsingapore (for non-profits)
About Skills for Good
Skills for Good is a youth-led initiative that matches our talent pool of skilled volunteers in marketing, technology and communications. Our mission is to empower volunteers through meaningful Skills-Based Volunteering (SBV) opportunities that help Social Organisations in Singapore to meet their operational and strategic goals.
