O trabalho voluntário como promotor de competências profissionais

Abstract

Volunteer work may be able to change many aspects of individuals and bring many benefits to those who practice it, being able to develop people's different skills. The main objective of this work is to identify how voluntary work can promote professional skills. Its specific objectives are to show the competences developed with the practice of voluntary work, to identify whether the developed competences were applied in voluntary work and, finally, to identify whether the competences acquired in volunteering were applied in the traditional work environment or in personal life. The methodology used was a case study in an Institution of the Condominio Espiritual Uirapuru (CEU) and it was characterized as a qualitative and descriptive research. Data collection took place through semi-structured interviews with 5 (five) volunteers from the Institution. The results showed that all volunteers were able to identify which skills were developed in volunteer work and give examples of situations in which they were applying skills within volunteer work. Regarding the context of work or personal life, most respondents were able to give examples of situations on how the skills learned impacted their work or personal life.