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Wendy: What are the benefits of being a volunteer?
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Simon: Well there are many benefits of volunteering beginning I think by meeting a need for the person, the volunteering is ... I don't like to use this word in a negative way, but it's a selfish activity. It's about improving oneself, it's about learning a new skill, it could be about actually matching your course content or something you're learning into a practical activity and matching that not only for the practice of the learning process you're going through, but also proving it to a potential employer as well. So a volunteer is very good on that level, it's very vocational.
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Wendy: Good at application forms.
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Simon: It's proven, not just the proof of it, but the evidence through the reference. That you can actually get someone to write you a reference proving what you've learnt, so volunteering in a lot of ways is the first step into an employer in your chosen field.