On CareerVillage.org students post requests for career advice. Our platform automatically matches those requests to members of our online pool of working professionals based on their skills and experiences. For professionals who choose to volunteer with us, this means a great opportunity to help. For students, it means an easy way to get personal guidance. For educators and others, it means a whole new resource that can change how you help students succeed.
-Anina, California
-Britanie, North Carolina
A: I used to make my list every Sunday for everything that is due that week. I would slot each assignment for a specific day and time while being mindful of other commitments like work or social outings. Doing it this way helped me to not wait until the last minute and then become overwhelmed by the amount of assignments due... -Analyst at Fannie Mae
-Paige, Massachusetts
A: There is no correct answer to this question. I went to college straight after high school and looking back I'm not sure if I had taken a year off in between if I ever would have finished school. It is very easy to say "I'll take a year off to work and go back" but I know a lot of people who never did... -Senior Quality Analyst at Barclays
-Alisha, California
Setup your profile to set your preferences for the types of questions you would like to answer. We use your LinkedIn profile to pre-populate as much of your CareerVillage profile as we can to save you time.
We will let you know by email when we have a question that would be a good fit for your skills or experiences.
Share your insights with students to help them succeed.
CareerVillage fills a void in my life. It gives me the opportunity to continue reaching out to teens and young adults, to help guide them through this tumultuous transitional period of their lives. Due to other commitments, I cannot donate blocks of time to regularly scheduled volunteer activities. However, with CareerVillage, I can sit down at the keyboard for as little as 15 minutes and instantly reach three or four students. I can do this at any time, on any day, whenever it suits me, as often or as seldom as I like.
Over the past three years, we have been actively engaged in a collaboration with CareerVillage to give Zynga employees a meaningful way to give back through volunteering virtually. Nearly 200 of them have given their career advice on the platform since 2013, and each time we hear from employees how fun, easy and meaningful the experience was for them. This collaboration will continue to be a key feature of Zynga’s regular service events.
Winner, NCVS Innovation Awards 2013: National Conference on Volunteering and Service.
Social Innovation Award, 2016: Won a clean sweep of Lumina Foundation's first ever Social Innovation Awards at ASU-GSV 2016 in San Diego, CA.
1st Place, Social Impact: Picked from a pool of over 2,300 applicants to participate in MassChallenge 2014, from whom we were awarded the top prize in the Social Impact category.
1st place, Give It Away Award: Selected by a large panel of young people from a highly competitive pool of nonprofits.
Selected to participate in the world's first accelerator program exclusively for high tech nonprofit organizations.
Selected for this program run by College Summit and sponsored by the Gates Foundation to improve college knowledge.
Incubated through the Technology Underwriting the Greater Good program in Boston, MA.
Invited to serve as a startup in residence at the iLab in Spring 2012 where we first launched our platform.
