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1 TRI-VAC offers jobs and experience
% Hy Joseph Hart
I “You can’t get a job without experience, and
=2 you can’t get experience without a job.”
| One of the best ways to break this “chase
5 your tail” cycle is by getting job experience
3 through volunteer work in the local com
£ munity. Volunteering can help you acquire a
| marketable job skill, give you a work
| history, and possibly save you from wasting
1 4-6 years chasing a degree you know nothing
% about.
| Finding a way to break into the volunteer
I job market is often difficult unless you are
| friends with or related to the boss at the
1 place where you want to work. The Tri
-4 County Volunteer Action Center (TRI-VAC)
i in Harrisburg can help. TRI-VAC is a local
-j non-profit organization that matches pro
-1 spective volunteers with agencies in need of
a volunteer help.
| Marianne Faust, director of TRI-VAC,
| calls her organization an “employment agen
| cy for volunteers.”
§ It’s much like an employment agency. You
* enter TRI-VAC’s headquarters at 26 South
| Second Street, Harrisburg (phone 238-6678),
| and fill out a volunteer information form.
£ The agency’s interviewer goes over your job preference and work
I history sheet with you. From your job preference, agency preference
| ancfajcea preference, a job interview is set up.
I The. final acceptance, placement and training of volunteers is in
\ the hands of the agency. (The agency doesn’t have to hire you, so act
a as if this interview was for a paying job instead of a volunteer posi
| tion).
| One of the many benefits in doing volunteer work, according to
a Faust, is that it helps you fill out your resume. A lot of holes aren’t
6 left in the job experience portion of the form.
| TRI-VAC offers an almost endless array of jobs. Literally hun
| dreds of different jobs are available for the volunteer to choose
l from. There are 83 basic types of jobs to choose from. You can get a
| job in: accounting, audio-visual, crime prevention, environment,
& hospital work, research and analysis, sales, science and technology.
t “We can get you a job in almost any field you want,” says Faust.
- A sample of the over 140 agencies/organizations that work with
£ TRI-VAC include the: Animal Foundation, Commonwealth Stage
Company, Cumberland County Bureau of Consumer Affairs,
b Museum of Scientific Discovery, Pa. Association For The Blind,
| River Rescue Inc., U.S. Soil Conservation Service, and WMSP-FM.
| Of the many Capitol students placed in volunteer jobs by TRI-VAC,
a Barbara Myers is representative in her enthusiasm for the good job
| done by TRI-VAC’s staff.
| “I couldn’t believe the variety of jobs,” said Myer&. a Capitol
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Myers was placed by TRI-VAC with the Pennsylvania Dept, of
Transportation’s Program Services department. This winter she will
be doing a two credit independent study, working at PENNDOT help
ing them in the planning and implementation of an anti-drunk driv
ing newsletter. ‘
The biggest use of TRI-VAC on campus is in the social science pro
gram by Professor Rie Gentzler. Gentzler encourages her
“Introduction to Human Services” students to use the resources of
TRI-VAC in helping them find volunteer jobs.
Volunteerism is used in Gentzler’s class as “reality testing,”
which means you can find out the differences between books and the
real world.
Students in past and present “Human Services” classes have
found volunteerism to be both exciting and personally rewarding.
The class volunteer project is flexible, allowing students to follow up
any job that interests them for their volunteer project.
Volunteerism serves a real function at Capitol. Through indepen
dent studies, student teaching and internships the student sees the
whole picture. An old Chinese proverb that expresses the true nature
of being a volunteer is
“Tell me-I forget,
Show me-I remember,
Involve me-I understand.”
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