Skills profile

What it is

NGOs often need professional help as much as extra hands: accounting, legal drafting, design, IT, translation or tutoring. Your Skills on your profile tell the CSR team what you can offer.

The CSR team sees your skills on your page in People and can invite you to skills-based (pro bono) activities that fit. CorpHands does not match people to projects automatically; the CSR team uses your skills list to decide who to approach.

You can also find skills-based activities yourself with the Skills-based filter in Activities, and earn the Skills mentor badge.

What you can use it for

• Offer your finance skills to help an NGO with its budget or reports
• Volunteer as a designer, developer or translator for an NGO project
• Tutor students in spoken English, maths, science or computers
• Help the CSR team staff pro bono projects with the right people
• Earn the Skills mentor badge for skills-based hours

How to do it

Add your skills (employee)

1. Open ProfileTap Profile in the employee app.
2. List your skillsIn Skills, type your skills separated by commas, for example accounting, design, English tutoring. You can add up to 20.
3. SaveTap Save.

Find skills-based activities (employee)

1. Open ActivitiesTap Activities and choose the Skills-based filter.
2. JoinOpen an activity and tap Join activity.

Use skills when planning (CSR admin)

1. Mark the activityWhen creating an activity, choose the Skills-based category or tick Skills-based (pro bono) activity.
2. Look up peopleIn People, open a person to see their Skills, then invite suitable colleagues directly.

Tips and good practice

• Use plain, specific words such as Ind AS reporting or Hindi copywriting rather than general ones.
• Write skills in the words your CSR team is likely to search for.
• Keep your list up to date when you change role or learn something new.
• Hours on skills-based activities count towards the Skills mentor badge.

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