Employee Volunteering: An Evaluation Toolkit
This toolkit was developed by Scottish Business in the Community
and funded by the Scottish Governments Employability Team. It is
aimed at employers who are interested in or who are already
developing their people's soft skills in a way that also supports
the long-term unemployed or disengaged young people. It will help
employers measure the positive impact of employee volunteering on
their business.
Skills based volunteering includes educational based activities,
where staff work with young people in schools, and also activities
designed to help the long term unemployed gain the skills and
confidence necessary to return to work.
In recent years businesses throughout Scotland have got involved
in employee volunteering in a variety of dynamic ways. This
includes: mentoring young people, providing training schemes, work
placements, job coaching and running workshops on CV and
interview skills.
As well as benefiting the community, businesses have recognised
the direct gains to their own business when engaging in these
programmes. Along with the increased levels of commitment and
motivation businesses report the excellent training opportunities
these programmes provide for staff. In order to harness the
benefits of employee volunteering companies need to manage the
process probably.
This toolkit will provide them with concrete strategies and
tools that will help maximise the positive effects of these
programmes and deliver bottom line benefits.