Community: Why this matters

As a potential employer, you may be asking yourself, “why is he listing this on his portfolio? Why do I care?”

This is a valid question that I would like to address.

1. Being involved in the local community means that I have roots and interests here.  I would be less-likely to job hop from your organization to someone else across the country.
2. Having spent the majority of my professional career with small businesses, it is difficult to have sufficient opportunities to exercise my experience and capabilities in leadership and in teaching and training others.  My community activities allow me these opportunities.
3. It is my hope that a potential employer believes in giving back to their local community.  That they share my belief that employee satisfaction and reduced attrition can be enhanced with a philosophy of making the world around us a better place.
4. Through my community involvement, particularly through the boy scouts, I meet a number of other adult volunteers covering a great breadth of skills, professions and employers.  It is not unusual to be able to access this resource to assist the needs of my employer.

Now, as an employer, it would also be reasonable to ask if this community involvement would interfere with my ability to travel for work as needed?  The answer here is that I plan my activities well in advance and have very good people that I work with that can take over a planned event for me on relatively little notice.