Improving Your CV, Chapter 18: The Voluntary Experience section

Part of Course 1: Improving your CV · Chapter 18 of 29 · 4 min

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Voluntary experience can really define you. Where you put it depends on where you are in your career.

Early in your career, treat voluntary roles as experience; for example, being treasurer of a university club can go straight into your experience section.
Later in your career, voluntary roles such as school governor, trustee or running a club can sit in a separate section.
They show responsibility, teamwork and what you're like outside work, and are often a talking point once someone is actually reading the CV.
Paid activity such as occasional lecturing needs more thought about where to put it.

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