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Still not convinced? Here are five ways that volunteerism can help with your job search:

1. Acquire New Skills. As a volunteer, you can help organizations with tasks that you wouldn't be exposed to otherwise. These can be hard skills such as marketing, event planning, or accounting, or transferable skills such as leadership, communication, and team building. Either way, you can learn new skills, or build off of old ones to make them even stronger.
2. Expand Your Network. As a volunteer you can tap into new networks and gain access to career expertise and knowledge. Through this new group of contacts, you can schedule informational interviews to learn more about their career trajectory. Who knows, these interactions may even lead to your next job.
3. Try Out What You Like. If you're making a pivot to a new career path, or you want to try something completely new, volunteering allows you to try out a new industry or career field in a lower stakes environment. By determining whether you like what the work entails, you can gain the information you need to decide where you want to go next.
4. Keep Up with Market Trends. Volunteering in a field you're interested in allows you to keep a pulse on the latest trends in that particular market. By staying current, you'll be able to speak to these trends in a cover letter or interview, which makes you a stronger overall candidate.
5. Enhance Your Resume. It can be hard to believe, but volunteer experiences still count as experience. If you're unable to volunteer with a community organization, you can volunteer with a faculty member as a research assistant. By engaging in volunteerism, you can add projects and experiences to your resume. You can also use your volunteer experiences as part of the STAR technique in interviews.

Volunteering can make you feel good for multiple reasons: you're helping an organization who needs it and you're working for a good cause. By being more strategic with your volunteerism, you can feel fulfilled personally, while working on your career path.

Learn more about opportunities working for an organization that relies heavily on its volunteers, the American Red Cross, at the Career Corner on March 5, 2024 from 10 AM to 2 PM. 

(1) https://www.americorps.gov/sites/default/files/evidenceexchange/FR_2013_VolunteeringasaPathwaytoEmployment_1.pdf

Original post by CADVC linked here

Thursday, February 29, 2024, 6-8 pm

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) inaugurates the "demo" of a new public video art projection gallery with work by artist Levester Williams, featuring his work "dreaming of a beyond: Baltimore" (2021-2024). The event will include a conversation between Williams and curator Lisa Freiman. Hot refreshments will be served. Showings of the work will continue on select evenings in late February and early March.

Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture
UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle
Fine Arts Building, 105
Baltimore, MD 21250
(410) 455-3188

Plan your visit

Images - 1. Levester Williams, "dreaming of a beyond: Baltimore" (2021-2024); 4K color video/video installation still (In a park-like setting, a person with dark brown skin tone sits embracing a white marble column from behind. Their hands touch the stone. Their face, obscured. They wear a light pink sweatsuit and brown boots. In the background, a nude fountain sculpture spouts water from the center of a pool of water. White marble also forms the border around the pool.)

Today!! See you there.

Hello Retriever Entrepreneurs!

Did you know the Alex. Brown Center offers two scholarships for students who demonstrate a strong interest in entrepreneurship? Check out the The Joseph and Frieda Faiman Eisenberg/VPC Endowed Scholarship and The PNC Scholars/Fellows Program! The deadline for submission is TOMORROW March 1, 2024. 

To learn more about the scholarship opportunities, click the links in our bio!

 

The Library of Congress/Congressional Research Service (CRS) is seeking to place students for up to ten weeks in the following paid summer internships. Students from all backgrounds who are looking to gain exposure to the work that supports congress and careers in public service are encouraged to apply.

CRS is based in Washington, D.C. however some summer internships may be eligible for telework outside of the Washington, D.C. region. The salary range for positions performed outside the D.C. region will be based on the locality pay of the remote location.  Relocation expenses are not authorized under this posting.

 Based on the level of work to be performed, these positions will be filled at the GS-05 to the GS-11 levels.

Qualifications: Must be an undergraduate student, graduate student, or have graduated no more than two years ago at the time of the internship. Undergraduate students must have completed at least two years of education to be considered for an internship. See individual positions for specific educational qualifications and additional requirements. 

U.S. citizenship is required for all CRS positions, including internships. For more information about CRS, please visit https://www.loc.gov/crsinfo/.

How to Apply:

To apply, send an e-mail to studentinternships@crs.loc.gov that includes: 1) the position(s) you wish to apply for 2) your resume and 3) official or unofficial transcripts. The deadline to apply is March 15, 2024.  Upon review of their information, CRS may also consider applicants for other positions similar to what they have applied for.

Visit the website here to learn more about the internship positions.

The Library of Congress/Congressional Research Service (CRS) is seeking to place students for up to ten weeks in the following paid summer internships. Students from all backgrounds who are looking to gain exposure to the work that supports congress and careers in public service are encouraged to apply.

CRS is based in Washington, D.C. however some summer internships may be eligible for telework outside of the Washington, D.C. region. The salary range for positions performed outside the D.C. region will be based on the locality pay of the remote location.  Relocation expenses are not authorized under this posting.

 Based on the level of work to be performed, these positions will be filled at the GS-05 to the GS-11 levels.

Qualifications: Must be an undergraduate student, graduate student, or have graduated no more than two years ago at the time of the internship. Undergraduate students must have completed at least two years of education to be considered for an internship. See individual positions for specific educational qualifications and additional requirements. 

U.S. citizenship is required for all CRS positions, including internships. For more information about CRS, please visit https://www.loc.gov/crsinfo/.

How to Apply:

To apply, send an e-mail to studentinternships@crs.loc.gov that includes: 1) the position(s) you wish to apply for 2) your resume and 3) official or unofficial transcripts. The deadline to apply is March 15, 2024.  Upon review of their information, CRS may also consider applicants for other positions similar to what they have applied for.

Visit the website here to learn more about the internship positions.