engleski

Volunteering as the way for productivity and employability improvement

Very important questions for every modern economy, no matter how developed it is, are certainly: how to reduce the unemployment, how to shorten the duration of unemployment, how to find the way for unemployed to acquire new knowledge and skills that would help them in faster (re)employing. One specific way and means for acquiring knowledge and skills for employment, little used and generally insufficiently studied, can be volunteering. This paper presents the results of a research that investigated the extent in which volunteering is present in the population of unemployed in Croatia (in Split-Dalmatia county), and in which way volunteering can be a useful way and measure for their faster and more productive (re)employment. For that purpose, the structure and characteristics of unemployed volunteers and non-volunteers were investigated, as well as their motives for volunteering and attitudes towards volunteering as the means for improving employability. Attitudes and perceptions of unemployed volunteers have been compared with those from non-volunteers, as well as unemployment records of those two populations. Finally, the potential of volunteering as a tool for faster and more productive employment of unemployed has been assessed.

volunteering; unemployment; employability; volunteers

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