Volunteering: How Service Enriches Your Life-and How Its Unexpected Halo Effect Boosts Your Career - Softcover

Raynolds, John; Stone, Gene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582380589 ISBN 13: 9781582380582

Publisher: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press, 1999

Synopsis

Today many of us feel trapped in our jobs, afraid we won't advance, and bored by the routine. Volunteering provides us with an invigorating way to stand out in an ever more competitive environment by reaching out and helping others. Meaningful volunteer work not only enriches our own souls-- it is also one of the best ways to advance in a career.

John Raynolds illustrates how inspiration in careers and in lives can be renewed by service to others. He shows how volunteerism can help you:

* Learn how to take career risks
* Pick up new skills
* Meet important contacts
* Expand your industry profile
* Develop an entirely new perspective on your goals

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From the Publisher

"I know from my own experience that there is nothing greater to fulfill your dreams, touch your soul, alleviate your sorrow, shrink your needs, and bless lives than sincere volunteerism. This greatly needed book should be read and used by all who want to stretch their hearts by stretching out their hands to others." --Stephen R. Covey, Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

"In this career-altering book, John Raynolds gives you inside information on how you can do well by doing good." --Marshall Loeb, former managing editor, Fortune, and Money, and editor, The Columbia Journalism Review

"Other people talk about careers with cold-hearted calculation. John Raynolds has written the only book that approaches the subject with a heart, and a sensible heart at that." --Arthur M. Blank, president and CEO, The Home Depot

"John Raynolds' highly readable guide to volunteerism and careers should be required reading for everyone who is trying to start a career or push his or her opportunity and performance to a higher level." --Reuben Mark, chairman and CEO, Colgate Palmolive

"John Raynolds gives us a blueprint for service that changes lives-those we serve and our own." --Frances Hesselbein, president and CEO, The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Non-Profit Management

About the Author

John Raynolds is president and CEO of the National Peace Garden Foundation in Washington, D.C. Formerly president and CEO of Ward Howell International, the world's seventh-largest executive search firm, and of Outward Bound USA, he has volunteered extensively, running in the New York City Marathon with disabled athletes, and serving on the boards of six nonprofit organizations. He has participated in forty-one Outward Bound expeditions. He lives with his wife, Eileen, in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Gene Stone, a former Peace Corps volunteer, works for several community organizations and is the author of six books, including Little Girl Fly Away.

About this edition

• Publisher: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1582380589
• ISBN 13: 9781582380582
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224