What are students looking for when they search for volunteers?
All kinds of career information and help, but primarily:
1. Career options associated with their majors.
•	We encourage these students to use college major as their search criterion when looking for volunteers.
•	This process often teaches students that career fields of alumni are not always directly related to undergraduate majors.
•	Students decide whether or not to contact individual volunteers; this often hinges on whether the volunteer's job description sounds interesting and understandable to the student.
•	It is helpful if you can provide complete information in your job description that is understandable to students with limited knowledge of the work world.
2. Contacts who work in a field in which they'd like to find an internship or permanent position.
•	We encourage these students to use occupation or work setting as their search criterion when looking for volunteers.
•	Students' interests vary widely and range from graphic design to event planning to product design to international business to governmental affairs to psychology to working with children to pharmaceutical sales.
•	Some students don't know how to put a label on their career interests and are looking for ideas.
•	The more explicit information you provide in your job description, understandable to students, the more you will guide students in knowing if you can provide the kind of information they seek.
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