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The Career-building effect of volunteering in higher education

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays the motives for volunteering are changing among higher education students, and besides traditional altruistic motives, career-building motives also appear (the acquisition of work experience and professional knowledge, professional development, networking, the presentation of voluntary work in the resume). In this paper, we use data from a survey conducted in five Central and Eastern European countries (N=2,199) to examine through linear regression analysis the factors affecting the strength of career-building motives and to analyse through a logistic regression model the determinants of whether or not volunteering is related to the field of study. Our hypotheses are formulated based on the literature. Our results show that career-building motives are more pronounced among women and students who have a close relationship with external friends outside the university, study outside Hungary, and study something other than engineering, computer science or science. Voluntary work is more likely to be related to the field of study among teacher education students, students with an unfavourable financial situation, those who study in Romania, and those who have a close relationship with faculty.

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