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Tanisha
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How can I help others achieve their goals while furthering my own education and community service experience?
How can I help others achieve their goals while furthering my own education and community service experience?
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EZINNA EDGE IROEGBU
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EZINNA EDGE’s Answer
This is an amazing question. You can always help other people achieve their goals by first identifying the following:
1. What goals are they pursuing.
2. What have they done so far in furtherance to achieving such goals.
3. What they need help doing in order to help them not to derail from such goals.
4. What challenges have they encountered so far.
5. Offering to them what you can in line with what they need.
In order to further your own education and community service experience while helping others you need to pick a volunteering opportunity related to what you are studying so it will be easier for you to relate it with your education. For instance, you can't be volunteering in a mechanic workshop if you are studying nursing. It has no correlation. Rather, look for hospitals and the likes and volunteer there.
Goodluck as you to set out on helping more people achieve their goals.
1. What goals are they pursuing.
2. What have they done so far in furtherance to achieving such goals.
3. What they need help doing in order to help them not to derail from such goals.
4. What challenges have they encountered so far.
5. Offering to them what you can in line with what they need.
In order to further your own education and community service experience while helping others you need to pick a volunteering opportunity related to what you are studying so it will be easier for you to relate it with your education. For instance, you can't be volunteering in a mechanic workshop if you are studying nursing. It has no correlation. Rather, look for hospitals and the likes and volunteer there.
Goodluck as you to set out on helping more people achieve their goals.
Sohaib Iqbal, CPA, CISA, CITP
Auditor
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Sohaib’s Answer
Firstly, it is important to know that everyone is on their own trajectory. You should focus on your goals and help others along the way. Givers always win as long as they are smart about the time and effort they spend on helping others.
To answer more specifically on how you can help others, I like EZINNA’s response but I will also ask if their goals overlap with yours or complement your goals, can you two collaborate and achieve the goal (or subset of goal) together? For example, if someone is studying for a certification but you are ahead of them in terms of progress, you can assist them get to where you are. However, as help you them, you will most likely strengthen your understanding of those sections. It will almost be a revision.
Conversely, if their goals impact you adversely, you will have to be smart about your help. For example, there is a job/position open and you and another person are interviewing for it, you should be smart about sharing all of your preparation with that person that you worked so hard for. Instead, you can give them some pointers and enable them to do their own research.
Hope that helps!
To answer more specifically on how you can help others, I like EZINNA’s response but I will also ask if their goals overlap with yours or complement your goals, can you two collaborate and achieve the goal (or subset of goal) together? For example, if someone is studying for a certification but you are ahead of them in terms of progress, you can assist them get to where you are. However, as help you them, you will most likely strengthen your understanding of those sections. It will almost be a revision.
Conversely, if their goals impact you adversely, you will have to be smart about your help. For example, there is a job/position open and you and another person are interviewing for it, you should be smart about sharing all of your preparation with that person that you worked so hard for. Instead, you can give them some pointers and enable them to do their own research.
Hope that helps!
Rebecca Tang
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Rebecca’s Answer
Thank you for your question. This is a good question. I really appreciate you have the passion to help others.
I think it really depends on the goals of others. Below are my suggestions:
1. There are websites like career village, etc. You can do the volunteer work to give advice to the youth
2. Explore any volunteer opportunities to assist the underprivileged groups
3. Consider to work as a teacher, social workers, in NGO, etc.
Hope this helps! Good Luck!
I think it really depends on the goals of others. Below are my suggestions:
1. There are websites like career village, etc. You can do the volunteer work to give advice to the youth
2. Explore any volunteer opportunities to assist the underprivileged groups
3. Consider to work as a teacher, social workers, in NGO, etc.
Hope this helps! Good Luck!