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You probably don’t want to work for free, but offering your services to a charity, can help you develop skills, remain active, meet people and demonstrate your energy, humanity, and ‘can do’ attitude to any and all potential employers. It’s also a great way of developing skills to help you move into a new area. You also get to meet a range of people, thus extending your network.

Voluntary work can also be at a professional level. If you are an unemployed communications executive or business analyst, could you use these skills within a not-for-profit organisation?

As I mentioned earlier, Richard unexpectedly gained transferable skills from voluntary work with the Citizens Advice Bureau, concerning dealing with and solving people’s problems quickly and effectively.