Portfolio for Volunteering experiences – Based on the ProfilPASS used for the first time in the Scotland

‘Portfolio for Volunteering experiences – Based on the ProfilPASS’, a major output of the EUROVIP project, has been put to a first successful test in Scotland.

In summer 2017 EUROVIP project partner Volunteering Matters gathered a group of volunteers from their Full-time Volunteering programme in their Edinburgh offices. European projects coordinator Pieter Baeten and Volunteer Manager Jen Finnimore guided the participating volunteers through the comprehensive material of the ‘Portfolio for Volunteering experiences – Based on the ProfilPASS’ to help them recognise the skills and competencies acquired in their volunteering roles and how to use them in their professional career.

The ‘Portfolio for Volunteering experiences – Based on the ProfilPASS’ is a built on a three step structure. In the first step participants reflect on the tasks and activities of their volunteering role. Based on this reflection volunteers assess the qualities and skills specific to these activities in the second step. The last step involves translating these qualities and skills into competencies relevant in the professional recruitment process.

Prior to the training all volunteers present in the training indicated that they had never thought of using the skills and competencies from their volunteering roles in a professional context. However, in the feedback on ‘Portfolio for Volunteering experiences – Based on the ProfilPASS’ they unanimously emphasised the usefulness of such a course. Further feedback about the course material itself was attentively received by Pieter and Jen and fed back to the authors. These insights were incorporated into a second training session in September delivered by Volunteering Matters in London.

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United Kingdom version of the Portfolio for Volunteering experiences – Based on the ProfilPASS

Follow the link to access the Portfolio for Volunteering experiences – Based on the ProfilPASS UK.

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EuroVIP training for Volunteering Matters

Volunteering Matters EuroVIP Training.

A short while ago, we had the pleasure to announce the publication of the Portfolio for Volunteering experiences – Based on the ProfilPASS as part of our EuroVIP project.

In the coming months, the Volonteurope team will be providing training opportunities for Volunteer mangers to become acquainted with the use of the Portfolio.

On April 13, we will be training the Full Time Volunteering, Employee Volunteering and Positive Futures London teams of our hosting organisation Volunteering Matters in the use of this tool. The goal of this training is to make volunteering mangers acquainted with the use of the tool and enables them with the opportunity to raise feedback on its use.

An additional training opportunity for other volunteering organisations is foreseen in one of the upcoming NNIVIA meetings, of which we will keep you updated.

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Volunteering in the UK

According to the National Council For Voluntary Organisations’ (NCVO) UK Civil Society Almanac 2016 42% of the UK population over the age of 16 undertook a formal volunteering engagement at least once a year. Formal volunteering is considered giving help to giving unpaid help through a group, club or organisation. Since 2001, this number is more or less stable with the rates of adults formally volunteering at least once in the last year continue to be within five percentage points of each other.

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Training to the ProfilPass method, Getting to know our own Competencies

Last month the EuroVIP consortium met in the beautiful city of Leipzig in Germany, where we could enjoy the hospitality of our Wisamar colleagues during a two days’ induction in the use of the ProfilPASS. Currently, we are working to adapt this document into the “Portfolio for Volunteering experiences – Based on the ProfilPASS,” which we expect to introduce in the first months of the New Year. This training enables us to use this document for the benefit of volunteers most effectively.

 

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We had the opportunity to get familiar with the different pahases and tools of the ProfilPASS you can use to identify and to assess your skills and competencies. Our training started with an overview of the reasoning behind the ProfilPASS, which is a tool developed for assessing skills gained whilst undertaking informal and non-formal activities. In Germany, it has been used in a wide variety of settings for a diverse public including prisons, companies, schools, or for vocational orientation. Recently it has also been used to help the integration of refugees in the labour market.

The tool is remarkably flexible, and thus , rather than using it once it serves more as an archive of skills gathered throughout its lifetime, where important experiences can be stored for later consultation. It can therefore be adapted to a wide variety of age groups and target audiences. Over the course of the training session we learned how to identify and describe our experiences and to assess the competences we gained during them. As a final exercise the facilitator challenged us to think of ways in which to improve on these skills.

 

 

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Upon completion of our training we reflected and shared our ideas how the “Portfolio for Volunteering experiences – Based on the ProfilPASS” could be best used for the benefits of youngsters and employers in tackling youth unemployment. Based on the lessons we learned and each other’s feedback we will be working to develop a tailored Employee Volunteering scheme using the “Portfolio for Volunteering experiences – Based on the ProfilPASS” in the course of 2017.

We expect to be hosting training sessions in the use of the “Portfolio for Volunteering experiences – Based on the ProfilPASS” during the first half of next year.

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