Section 3: Screening Volunteers
Screening Volunteer Applicants
Q. Why screen for volunteers?
A. Productivity, Image, Program Success, Employee and Volunteer Retention.
We need the best possible people to enhance our organizations. If the people we "Hire" are not those who can best support our organization, why would we hire them?
Not only do the people representing our organization's interests affect the success of the project but they also affect the way these organizations are perceived, the amounts we need to pay for insurance, the number and types of people who will be interested in our goals and working with us.
This being the case, here are a few suggestions as to how we can better make the right decision of who will represent our organizations.