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Interviewing and Screening Volunteers
Articles and excerpts on this subject
- Before Interviewing Volunteers, tip sheet from Ohio State 4-H
- Charities
Find Ways to Screen Volunteers Despite Insufficient Funds, Time
from The Chronicle of Philanthropy - Guidelines for Using Questions in Conversation
from An Asset Builder’s
Guide to Training Peer Helpers - Gut Feelings and Intuition from Beyond Police Checks
- Interviewer Traps from A Conversation with a Purpose: A Practical Guide to Interviewing Prospective Volunteers
- Methods
of Screening Potential Volunteers, by Monika Penner,
CharityVillage - Screening and CRB Checks from Volunteering England
- Screening
and Selecting Volunteers: Powerful Ambassadors or
Massive Headaches? , by Joe Willmore from Executive Update - Step 2: Screening by Charles Tremper and Gwynne Kostin
- The Volunteer Application Form, from Proof Positive
- Volunteer Screening Model manual from SportSafe (BC)
A Tongue-in-Cheek Look at the Trials of Volunteering (animated 3:50 min. video): Volunteer Seeks Gig (or Even Superheroes Get the Blues) from tobijohnson.typepad.com, 2011 -- discusson starter on volunteer interviewing
Web sites with useful articles on this subject
Background Checks on
Volunteers Who Work with Children
http://www.serveohio.org/bestpractices.pdf
Information on bill in Ohio that addresses background checks
and fingerprinting of volunteers who work with children.
EnVision
http://envision.ca/templates/resources.asp?ID=3263
Tips
for interviewing potential employees or volunteers from the Community
Services Council of Newfoundland and Labrador
Interviewing Volunteers
http://www.val.org.uk/_documents/Interviewing%20Volunteers.pdf
10
page booklet from Voluntary Action-Leeds (UK)
MENTOR: Components of Volunteer Screening
http://www.mentoring.org/downloads/mentoring_1038.pdf
Detailed description of the interviewing and screening process, including reference and background checks.
National Recreation and Park Association Guidelines for Background Checks
PDF
National recommendations for conducting comprehensive background checks and screenings for volunteers and staff.
Pandora's Box
http://www.prevent-abuse-now.com/index.htm
All about preventing child
sexual abuse, with a complete section on US national fingerprint
check legislation and resources.
Strategy
for Interviewing Volunteers
http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/volnteen/page8.htm
Sample
questions and other suggestions (keep scrolling through the pages)
from Literacy Partners of Manitoba
Volunteer Canada's Safe Steps Screening Program
http://volunteer.ca/files/SafeSteps.pdf
Volunteer Canada's Safe Steps Screening Program provides an easy-to-use method for organizations to ensure that the people they serve are safe. This page also links to information on laws and screening, a screening Q&A, and other resources.
Volunteer
Interviewing Scenarios
http://nationalserviceresources.org/filemanager/
download/708/roleplay_interviews.pdf
Written
by Steve McCurley
Volunteer Management FAQs
http://www.managementhelp.org/staffing/outsrcng
/volnteer/volnteer.htm
Site maintained by Carter MacNamara.
Scroll to sections on Screening
Volunteers and Selecting
("Hiring") Volunteers
Volunteer Screening Blog
http://www.volunteerscreening.org/blog.html
This blog, on the site of a screening service, discusses a variety of issues relating to background checks and interviewing volunteers, using real-life situations.
VolunteerSelect
http://www.volunteerselect.com/
Commercial service for
conducting background checks on volunteers that includes a "best
practices" resource section.
What Is Screening?
http://volunteer.ca/topics-and-resources/screening
Excellent overview of
the rationale for and steps of effective volunteer screening from
Volunteer Canada. Includes "Screening in Faith" PDF for faith communities.
Relevant Hot Topic essays?
Unskilled vs. Differently Skilled: Maximize Volunteer Differences – Nov ‘00
7/29/11
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