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"I have always believed volunteering your time and skills is one of the best things you can do for others&amp;#8212;and for yourself. But one of the challenges with volunteering of course is answering the question: *What will I actually do? *As someone with writing, producing, and digital experience (but severely lacking some other skills), I&amp;#39;d found it difficult to connect with an organization that actually needed someone with my background.\nPinterestFacebookAnd I guess I wasn&amp;#39;t the only one, because LinkedIn just launched something called the Volunteer Marketplace. Now, instead of searching all over the Internet for volunteer opportunities (a total time suck), you can just log in to your LinkedIn account and match your skills to an organization that needs them. For example, if you can build a website, you&amp;#39;ll be able to find nonprofits that are looking to go digital. Or if your background is in marketing, you might be able to help an organization get the word out about what they&amp;#39;re doing. (The list goes on and on.) The best way to get started is to skim through different charities, which have pages set up like LinkedIn business pages, and see if they have the right opportunity near you, like Hire Our Heroes, The United Way, and many, many more.\nAnd don&amp;#39;t forget, volunteering is a great way to hone your existing skills and develop new professional skills&amp;#8212;all of which can beef up your resume. After volunteering at food banks and a few other places, I finally found my &amp;quot;volunteer calling,&amp;quot; so to speak, as a mentor to young women. Over my career, mentoring has expanded the way I think and approach problems&amp;#8212;seeing things through someone else&amp;#39;s eyes gave me a new perspective.\nI&amp;#39;m not the only one who has benefitted from volunteering: According to a LinkedIn survey, 42 percent of hiring managers stated they consider volunteer work equivalent to full-time work experience, and 20 percent said they had hired someone because of their volunteer experience. In other words, this is pretty much a win-win.\nOh, and helping others? The best feeling in the world.\nCheck out this video to see what Wonder Women like Gloria Steinem and Selena Gomez say about the power of giving back:\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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