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Volunteer and you’re more likely to find a job, if you’ve been out of the workforce for a while. It’s a suggestion embraced by speakers, counselors and politicians who are talking to the sea of people looking for work. How valid is it, though? I’ve just tripped over a summary of a conference, on the new-to-me excellent web site of the IC Volunteers. If anyone has doubts about volunteering helping the world but also the volunteers, this is worth reading. Among other things it points out that there is a danger volunteering can backfire and it needs to be organized and managed properly for everyone to come out a winner.

My thanks to Julia Forestier of the new Geneva Climate Action group for pointing me to IC Volunteers. The climate initiative’s own web site goes live at the end of this week, just in time for Geneva’s Sustainable Development Festival Saturday at the city’s botanical gardens.

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