Personal development - introduction
How volunteering can help you learn new skills, gain qualifications and get a job.

Boost your career
Learn skills, gain experience, get that job.

Volunteering for a career
Alex Mula speaks to Emma Saunders about how volunteering helped develop her career.

Networking
Use your volunteering to practise your networking.

Dream jobs in the not-for-profit sector
Follow these tips to a new career working for a charity.

Qualifications through volunteering
How to convert your volunteering experience into qualifications - from NVQs to a university degree.

Duke Of Edinburgh's Award
Tom Hardwicke explains why The Duke Of Edinburgh's Award scheme is worth walking up muddy hills for.

A gap year at home
You don't need to go abroad to have a great gap year, says Jo Flood.

Knitting (and volunteering) changed my life
Sarah Shires explains why she gave up her job to volunteer for The Big Knit.

Oxfam graduate internships
Oxfam graduate internships

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