Researchers have established that volunteering can improve your job prospects. Although it is an American report, published in June 2013, these are universal truths that apply here in the UK, here in South Yorkshire, in Barnsley, in Goldthorpe.
You can read the report yourself, http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/volunteer-2013-06.pdf
But to save you the time...the headline reads as
"the more hours volunteering you do, the more likely you are to be employed at the end of 12 months".
"the more hours volunteering you do, the more likely you are to be employed at the end of 12 months".