Add volunteering to your CV
It tells your prospective employer that you are willing to step up and take on more responsibilities, and it polishes your soft skills
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Vivien Ang
UNLESS your New Year resolution was to binge watch a hundred Netflix programmes, most of the goals set earlier in the year would have gone kaput with the advent of Covid-19. A friend of mine, one of many who found themselves jobless during this period, was updating her resume and asked me to "take a quick look at it".
"Looks good," I remarked. "But why don't you add your volunteer experience too?"
"Huh, got use meh?" she replied, sounding bewildered.
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