volunteering to learn 6 th of march 2015 katerina rudiger, head of skills and policy campaigns
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Volunteering to Learn 6th of March 2015
Katerina Rudiger, Head of Skills and Policy Campaigns
Overview
• Volunteering • Employer supported volunteering• Benefits & links to skills development• Barriers to ESV • Volunteering programmes for CIPD members
Volunteering – trend?
What is volunteering?
Number of Volunteers
28%
72%
Scottish Household Survey 2013Levels of formal volunteering
Provided unpaid help to organisations or groupsNot provided help
Base = 9,920
42%
58%
Volunteer Scotland Survey 2013Levels of informal volunteering
Provided unpaid help to someone outside of home (e.g. childcare, house sitting, pet care, accompanying someone to an appointment)Not provided help
Base = 1,130
All Private Sector Public Sector Voluntary Sector SMEs Large Enterprises0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
27% 26% 27%
39%
15%
35%
23% 22%25% 26%
23% 23%
41%45%
33%30%
54%
33%
9%7%
15%
5%8% 9%
Employees’ ability to participate in volunteering activities dur-ing work time by organisation sector and size
Yes Yes, unpaid No Don't know
The contribution of volunteering
Source: “In giving how much do we receive?” speech by Andy Haldane, 2014
Organisational benefits
Brand reputation
Recruitment
Employee engagement &
employee contract
Trust & values
Staff development
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79 70 81 74 7354
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3 6 3 3 6 104 4 4 4 5 6
Attitudes to employee volunteering
Agree Neither Disagree Don't know
Team-Working
Communication skills
Better understanding of the local community
Time-management
Problem-solving and adaptability
Leadership skills
Other
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%
82%
80%
45%
41%
39%
33%
6%
Skills demonstrated by candidates with voluntary experience
Volunteering to learn: developing new skills and behaviours
Key challenges and barriers
Training and support
Keeping volunteering voluntary
Time constraints,
resources and logistical issues
Measuring impact
Less than 2/5 (39%) integrate
into HR strategies
Business buy-in
Employee interest and
action
Skills analysis
HR volunteering: volunteering programmes for CIPD members
• Steps Ahead mentoring
• Inspiring the future
increase and improve their engagement with young people
Help prepare
Make more youth friendly
For young jobseekers aged 18 to 24 A way to access HR expertise from CIPD members and increase their chances of success in the UK job market.
For HR professionals (CIPD members)The opportunity to volunteer to build face-to-face mentoring relationships with young jobseekers in their local area
A free, national programme especially developed by CIPD to register and match mentors and mentees via an easy to use online portal.
Steps Ahead Mentoring programme
increase and improve their engagement with young people
Help prepare
Make more youth friendly
Steps Ahead Mentoring programme – mentor experience
Success to date
“The mentors are far more than decent people who want to help out - they are HR professionals who know first-hand what it is that their organisations look for when recruiting young people.”
Jo Gadian, Jobcentre Plus District SPOC South London
Benefit of volunteering with young people
• Helps career progression and acquisition of new expertise
• Helps unlock potential and motivation
• Help understand challenges young people today face
• Creating positive social change and impact
“ The experience has really put me in touch with what it’s like to be young and unemployed today. It’s broadened my understanding - I can see a disconnect between the worlds of education and employment. I think part of the answer is to get businesses into schools earlier and give young people a better insight into the world of work when they do get opportunities for experience.”
Sara, Steps Ahead mentor
Steps Ahead pilot running in Edinburgh and
Leith from October 2014
27 mentees signed up
36 Mentors
24 current mentoring
relationships
New StepLaunching Steps
Ahead in Glasgow March
2015
2014
Steps Ahead Mentoring - Scotland
Local Support
Keith Watson - The CIPD branch chair for East and South East Scotland
“It’s an exceptionally useful and simple method that benefits both parties and I've never seen it as a “top-down” or “parent-child” relationship. With Steps Ahead
Mentoring, it’s important to understand that the programme not only increases the understanding of the young people involved but also helps HR to understand the
challenges they are facing in the current job market”
Tony Reeves - Steps Ahead Mentoring Ambassador for South East Scotland Tony is currently a branch committee member and has been for 15 years in a range of posts. Tony’s motivation for helping comes from his parents who did loads of voluntary work. He is the same and thinks his HR roles and leisure activities have helped him fulfil this motivation.