No Job? Hard time? Try volunteering!!!

I'm just gonna throw it out there, if some of us are having a hard time getting hired due to lack of experience or work history, volunteering is a great way to gain some experience and a title. I was tired of having a shitty resume so I signed to up to volunteer for a bunch of stuff and it has helped a lot to make my resume look good. SO get out there and look for volunteering experience. it looks good! I just got a new job and if it werent for my volunteering I did to make my resume stand out I wouldnt have been hired.

Where have you volunteered? Did you do it before DACA? If so, what ID did you show them??? Could you talk about your experiences?

I signed up to volunteer for The Red Cross and they check background tests but on the applicaton you can put your S.S or ITIN number. I put my new social and I passed. Then I signed up for a Museum and also have Backgrounds checks. I put my social. Just go out there to the community, library or something JUST get out and volunteer, work for free instead of sitting at home hoping you had a job. it's a time investment but it does pay off. It did for me. and I had a shitty work history with gaps. besides a shitty work history I decided to highlight my community service instead of work and my resume works so much better highlighting volunteer experience than my work history.

Before DACA I did a lot of community theater. They would ask me for a social because sometimes I would get paid But I never put anything and they still gave me small check. I even came out in the newspaper one year lol

None of them asked for I.D I just went in and did a background check and passed it. I just started in the Red Cross last month but I signed up for a bunch of days and even volunteering there I have learned so much. I loved the feeling of sitting on a desk doing stuff with a computer even if it's just checking I.D's and registering people.

Has anybody volunteered at Calserves???

Yes definitely. You need to be active, always try volunteering or an internship (paid or umpaid). That's how I got my job.

Tort , volunteering is an amazing deed in so many levels. Good for you.

Hmm Red Cross seems interesting, I might give it a shot

tutor for free at some school or your college

i couldn't for red cross all their orientations are so far from me since I don't have a car :\