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Volunteering Yourself into a Job
Several years ago, I was helping re-roof a girls’ dormitory at an orphanage in Guatemala when, in mid-hammer swing, I was offered a job working in humanitarian logistics. My shock was quickly followed...
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Volunteer Stereotypes
Bleeding hearts…do-gooders…dove-eyed idealists–not terms especially positive. In fact, my dictionary gives the definition of a do-gooder as ‘a well-meaning, but unrealistic or interfering...
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Quote That Deserves Some Attention
Photo By SANGONeT “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” Winston Churchill Sometimes, when you volunteer for a cause, it’s not all bake sales and...
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The Skills Gap
photo courtesy of Wikimedia commons Have you heard of the “skills gap”? Recently, while researching and writing content for some business blogs, I found the discussion of the skills gap particularly...
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