Students know that it can be helpful to have volunteer experience listed on a resume, but many are unsure where to begin. Kimmel Leadership Center offers the Service Learning Program that places students in volunteer positions with agencies. The program has an advantage over volunteering individually because an official record of the hours a student works is kept. When the student graduates, the transcript is sent out to employers along with the academic transcript. Another perk to the program is that students are placed with agencies that have something to do with their field of study.
Students benefit by getting hands-on experience and by establishing connections in that field.
For students, it's a good networking-type thing. She added that getting experience in a field gives students a taste of what they are getting into. Steve McClean, another program graduate assistant, said that if students volunteer in an agency out of their major field, it might help them realize there is something that may fit them better. McClean emphasized that the program has something for everyone. Nearly 300 agencies work with the program.