120. 10 Volunteer Interview Questions for a Perfect Match
Jul 25, 2024
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Tobi Johnson, an expert in volunteer management, shares 10 interview questions for a perfect match to enhance volunteer retention. She emphasizes understanding motivations, skills, and values, and suggests making interviews conversational and involving volunteers in the process.
Matching volunteers with roles based on skills and passion is key for positive experiences.
Conducting effective interviews includes tours, open conversations, and probing about motivations and commitments.
Deep dives
Key Point 1: Understanding Volunteer Matching
Matching volunteers with roles and activities that align with their skills and passions is crucial to creating a positive volunteer experience. By asking specific volunteer interview questions, organizations can assess volunteers' interests, values, and motivations to ensure a good fit and enhance overall engagement.
Key Point 2: Guidelines for Volunteer Interviews
Guidelines for conducting effective volunteer interviews include giving volunteers a tour of the organization's space to enhance commitment, maintaining two-way conversations to gather valuable insights, and asking open-ended questions that encourage volunteers to share stories and elaborate on their experiences.
Key Point 3: Assessing Volunteer Commitment and Engagement
To assess volunteers' commitment, understanding their availability, desired involvement, and potential challenges is essential. By probing about past volunteer experiences, assessing willingness to learn from diverse environments, and encouraging questions about the organization, volunteers' motivations and engagement levels can be better understood.
In this episode of the Volunteer Nation podcast, Tobi Johnson shares 10 volunteer interview questions for a perfect match to ensure a good fit between the volunteers and the organization's roles, tasks, and mission.
She emphasizes the significance of understanding volunteers' motivations, skills, and values to enhance retention and create an enjoyable volunteering experience. Tobi also highlights the benefits of conducting tours, making interviews conversational, and how you can involve volunteers in the process!
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For more tips and notes from the show, check us out at TobiJohnson.com. For any comments or questions, email us at WeCare@VolPro.net.
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