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How to show unpaid experiences on the resume

11/26/2019

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Resume Writing Ideas November 26, 2019
Showcase Your Unpaid Work Experiences on Your Resume

How to list volunteer work experience on your resume

Your unpaid work experience is important

Are you looking for a job? Thinking about a career change? Want to just earn a little extra money? Reach deep to discover and articulate more of your skills and you can land the position of your dreams.
 
Whatever your situation, you may find yourself wanting to showcase some of your non-paid work experiences. What constitutes non-paid work experience? Here are some examples:

  1. If you've ever led an organized group for children, you have non-paid experience under your belt. Being a Cub Scout Leader, Girl Scout Leader, or Eagle Scout Leader involves numerous skills and talents. More about that later.
  2. Volunteer stints certainly count. If you've ever been a volunteer, you know the dedication, skill, and work it requires.
  3. Being a member of your local school's Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO) can be considered non-paid work experience.
  4. Serving on community committees would certainly count.
  5. Perhaps you've done a lot of babysitting over the years for neighbors, friends, and family members. Babysitting requires many skills that can be showcased on a resume or in an interview.

Exploring Skills and Experiences

Determining the skills used and the tasks completed for each non-paid work experience takes a little time. Let's consider the above-listed examples and review sample skills and duties for each.

For Scout Leader or similar "leader" positions of organized children's groups, what duties did you perform? How could you phrase them so that they're relevant to a work environment?
  • Responsible for management of weekly meetings.
  • Performed scheduling duties: Set schedules for when, where, and how long to meet
  • Utilized planning skills to plan weekly, monthly, or yearly activities.
  • Demonstrated organizational skills:  Gathered necessary supplies, produced appropriate purchase orders, and selected materials.
  • Designed and managed the budget.
  • Prepared reports for the local organization that oversaw the group.

When you volunteer, skills and experiences will vary depending on the type of volunteer work performed. For the sake of illustration, let's assume you did volunteer work for a local social service organization.
  • Consistently reported for duties on time and followed all instructions.
  • Performed sorting and delivery of daily mail twice per week.
  • Planned and carried out mass mailings of program materials.
  • Provided unpaid staff leadership during the Supervisor's absence.
  • Designed and wrote the  monthly program Newsletter.
 
As a member of a PTO, you might have performed a variety of duties that can be showcased on your resume as non-paid work experience.
  • Acted as Committee Chair for fundraising events.
  • Planned and coordinated fundraising events for the school.
  • Served as Co-Chair of Meet and Greet Committee.
  • Developed activities to encourage more parents to join PTO.
  • Responsible for increasing PTO membership by 3% per year over a three-year period.
 
For this example, you served as a volunteer in the fictitious Welcome to Our Town group. The following duties could be noted on your resume as non-paid work experience:
  • Developed marketing flyers.
  • Coordinated meetings of Welcome to Our Town staff.
  • Supervised volunteer staff of four. Supervising volunteers can be a weighty asset; most hiring managers know how challenging it can be to manage people who aren't being paid.
  • Responsible for setting up exhibits and providing information about the town at local publicity events.
  • Conducted phone interviews with new community members.
 
Being a babysitter involves several skills and duties and a lot of responsibility.
  • Provided childcare to four children, ages 2 to 4, Monday through Friday, over a two-year span.
  • Planned, organized, and conducted field trips and tours to local museums and parks for the children.
  • Kept documentation on each child to share with parents regarding the child's behavior and activities throughout the day.
 
Begin a list now of your unpaid work experience, compiling the position and approximate month and year you started and ended each "job." Use the above examples to get ideas for the list of skills necessary for each experience and the duties you performed. Now you can showcase your non-paid work experiences on your resume to help you attain your career goals.
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