Volunteering Website

PGL · 01-05-2009 12:27pm #1

I was speaking to someone today at a seminar who told me that she read an article in one of the sunday newspapers (tribune i think) regarding a website where highly skilled unemployed people can submit their cv, with the aim to get a voluntary job in their field of expertise which could ultimately lead to a permanent or contract position of some sort. Aparently employers pay a fee of €15 to acess the cvs on the website.

I have searched for a website but to no avail. Can anyone help?

cheers

herya · 02-05-2009 9:03pm

Could it be www.talenttank.ie? It's a new website, I got a spam email recently.

I'm not sure about this idea - it's basically asking people to work for free for ordinary companies, not charities. Recession or no recession, it seems a bit much!

Neuro · 06-06-2009 1:45pm

In there any similar website for REAL charitable organisations seeking volunteers?

havana · 06-06-2009 1:48pm

Try Activelink.ie

Neuro · 07-06-2009 4:47pm

As is typical in Internetland, I came across the answer moments after making my original post. If you're interested in real volunteer work, visit:

www.volunteer.ie

mariusstanley · 12-06-2009 11:18pm

Hi,
I recently learned from my blog that you can travel to cities in

europe and use facebook and bebo to get jobs. It's couch surfing,

wwoof, help exchange, helpexchange network and urban labouretc..

linked together, here are some I used for Ireland, they do the whole

world too.:

<html>
<body>

<a href="http://www.bankofworks.com/" target="link">Jobs dublin</a>

<a href="http://www.bankofwork.com/" target="link"> jobs in

dublin</a> <a href="http://www.bankofworks.co.uk/"

target="link">Ireland jobs</a>

<p>

There are a huge bank of these from NGO's at the bankofworks links

page. I met a boat builder in Dublin who gave me a job fixing

fridges, his son was in my rugby group on facebook. Thanks.

Freddy from Mexio

SamNepal · 25-06-2009 9:04am

There is another outfit for volunteer.
Check out SamNepal.org would be good for you.

or email at info@SamNepal.org

edanto · 25-06-2009 9:24am

I work for a charity and we regularly take on volunteers. Plenty of them come through the Volunteer.ie website, they're a great organisation.

One thing to prepare for though, is that there is quite a time cost in taking someone on. A lot of charity work is very skilled, in that you have to know quite a bit about the clients, and the service, to do anything useful. For instance, you can't put someone inexperienced working in Fundraising unless there is enough work for them to do in a back-office role until they have learnt enough to be dealing with the public. And if your service is dealing with children/vulnerable people, you can imagine how careful you have to be with training/vetting/support & supervision, all of which has a large resource cost.

What I'm saying is that to get the most out of a volunteering opportunity, you would have to be prepared to make a long commitment (e.g. at least 6 months), even if it's just one morning a week, so that the charity will know they have enough time to train you to do something worthwhile. Mention that when you are applying and the road will be much smoother for you.

I know people at volunteer.ie and believe it or not, their biggest issue is finding charities to take people, not finding people to volunteer. It's quite hard work taking on a lot of temporary staff on a part-time roster, projects tend to stop-start-stop-start and that's tricky to deal with.

DJ Dodgy · 27-07-2009 4:59pm

I agree. I looked into working with a homeless group recently and between the effort they were going to have to put into me and as a result the time committment I would have to be able to give to make it worth their while I had to let it go. Sometimes closeness to home and convenience can be more important to your long term committment than a particular organisation clicking with your feeling/beliefs values.

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