Tuesday, 25 November 2014

The Volunteer Quiz


All the specialists analysing the volunteering sector agree on one thing – the main problem why volunteers give up is that they don’t feel engaged in what they do. In other words, different people are apt to doing different volunteering and if you want to keep them with you for longer, you need to find out what may be the best tasks to give them. From outdoor events organisation to office and administration work, you can now easily determine where your volunteers will fit in with the help of the different quizzes suggested in this post.


This is a great quiz for someone who wants to quickly find out what the perfect volunteer job for them will be. Only 10 very straightforward and clear questions and the volunteer-to-be will know what they will enjoy doing. From there, you just need to place them in the right team and expect amazing results.


This is another great quiz that will help you find more about the volunteering nature of your prospective volunteers. It will tell you if their volunteer style is Active/Hands-on, Social Helper, Artistic/Creative or Technical/Administrative. In addition to this, you will get some ideas about what exactly they can help with – e.g. IT, Coaching, Photography, etc. This quiz is not interactive, so you will have to count how many A, B, C or D answers they have and check out the results table.

              
About 4 years ago, Wild Apricot published a post discussing 8 quizzes for volunteers that were divided into four categories: Learn Your Volunteer Profile, Eco-Volunteers, Career-Oriented Volunteers and Young Volunteers. Bearing in mind that the Internet is constantly changing, you will probably find that some of the quizzes are no longer there, but it is worth checking the post out and seeing what is still available.

Create Your Own Quiz

After you’ve checked out a few volunteer quizzes on the web, you will start seeing a pattern and determine how to estimate the results. Then, you will be able to create your own volunteer quiz and give it to your prospective volunteers showing interest in your organisation. The good thing about creating your own quiz is that you will be able to include questions that are relevant to your organisation and will better exhibit the preferences and abilities of your future volunteers.

Other Quizzes

If you want to see even more ready-made volunteer quizzes, the web is full of them! Just open your favourite search engine and type ‘volunteer quiz’ or ‘quiz for volunteers’ and you will be offered hundreds of quizzes to choose from.

All in all, knowing about all those great volunteer quizzes will hopefully help you with the hard tasks of retaining volunteers within your organisation. So next time you find a new person who wants to try volunteering, ask them to spend a couple of minutes on the quiz you think best matches your and their aims. The results will show you exactly how you can place the volunteer and how to keep them happy and satisfied with their work. Isn't that exactly what your organisation needs?

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