After the Placement

Having just got back from Malawi after spending three months volunteering there on VSO's Global Xchange programme, I thought it was about time to thank the people who got me into volunteering in the first place. Yup, that's right, ProjectScotland.

Without my six month placement with PS, I'd have went down the same route as so of my peer group after leaving university - straight onto a graduate placement scheme for a company I didn't care about and more importantly, a company that didn't care about me. Or I'd be in a call centre, moaning and scanning job adverts incessantly, whilst fluffing my lines and being threatened with imminent dismissal. Thankfully, that was not to be. Cliched as it may sound, volunteering with PS was like being given a little key to a succession of doors that I didn't even know existed. And those doors have led onto other things - I would never have had the experience needed to be accepted on Global Xchange for instance.

I'm now on the hunt for employment in earnest and I am confident that the skills and experience I picked up through my placement will help me land a job that I REALLY want. And jobs aside, I will continue to volunteer throughout my life because my first experience was so positive.

Thanks ProjectScotland! Keep up the good work.

Jennifer Angus