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TITLE: | | This will be the volunteer’s identification. Give it prestige, but be realistic.
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OBJECTIVE: | | Create a statement reflecting the goals of the service to be performed.
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DUTIES: | | List each duty and responsibility of the job. Think of the results you want to achieve. Describe job tasks and any support available.
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QUALIFICATIONS: | | Include a list of skills needed for the performance of duties, including physical and interpersonal qualities. Be careful not to over-qualify, or you
could lose out on excellent volunteers due to stringent requirements.
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TRAINING: | | Describe the specific content, amount of time needed, and the title of trainer.
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TIME REQUIRED: | | Convey hours per week or month. Is the job on-going or short-term?
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COMMITMENT: | | Clarify the amount of time you need from the volunteer, based on training and supervision. Terms may be renewed after a period of time.
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LOCATION: | | Where will the volunteer be working? Identify any travel required.
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SUPERVISOR: | | Name of the supervisor, or the person with responsibility for program services.
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BENEFITS: | | What do you expect to take away from the program?
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DATE: | | Put the date you write the job description in writing.
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FIRST DOCUMENTED JOB DESCRIPTION:
England 1858, Frederick Furnivall of the Philosophical Society set out to establish a supplemental dictionary. He issued a circular calling for volunteer readers. They could select a period of history they would like to read. Each period represented the existence of different trends in the development of language.
Volunteers were to read and make word lists , and would then be asked to look for certain words that interested the dictionary team. Each volunteer would take a slip of paper, write at its top the target word, and the date of the details that followed: the title of the book, volume and page number, and a full sentences that illustrated use of the word.
They anticipated 100,000 slips of paper from volunteers, but received nearly six million.
The project was waylaid until 1877 when James Murry agreed to become editor of the New English Dictionary. A call went out for a vast fresh corps of volunteers. This appeal was published as a press release, distrubuted by book sellers, and through libraries to readers from Great Britain, America and the British Colonies. In 1928, the first edition of what was to become the Oxford English Dictionary was printed. The Oxford English Dictionary is the second edition and is comprised of 20 volumes.
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