1. Changing Lives, We Are In It Together!
Prepared for
Professor Celeste Hansen
SPCH 275
DeVry University
Prepared by
Regina Bekebrede, Keegan Faulkner,
Kevin Jarnagin, Omar Ochir & Diane Tolles
Group 5, Team E SPCH 275
DeVry University
June 25, 2015

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Name(s): Regina Bekebrede, Keegan Faulkner
Kevin Jarnagin, Omar Ochir & Diane Tolles.
Professor: Professor Celeste Hansen
Assignment: SPCH 275 Presentation Outline: The benefits of volunteering
Title of Presentation: Changing Lives, We Are In It Together!
Date: June 25, 2015
General Purpose: To persuade
Specific Purpose: To persuade students from the Chicago Workability High School Career
Development Program to volunteer in the community.
Thesis Statement: Volunteering in the community can provide you with the opportunity to
meet new people, learn new skills to help advance your career, and
facilitate personal growth.
I. Introduction:
A. Attention-getter: On January 12, 2010, an earthquake measuring seven on
the Richter scale in Haiti, caused the death of 200,000 people, left another
300,000 injured and made over 1 million homeless. On August 29, 2005, the
worst natural disaster in American history hit Southeastern Louisiana and
Southern Mississippi – Hurricane Katrina. Thousands died and over $81 billion
was estimated in property damage. Volunteers from all across the world came
together and formed a network of solidarity. (L. Clukey, 2010).
B. Relevance statement: “Volunteering is a pathway to employment because it
allows individuals to develop attractive leadership skills in the eyes of employers
and increase their network.”
C. Credibility statement: “Studies have concluded that the unemployment rate for
volunteers is slightly lower than non-volunteers.”
D. Thesis statement: “Volunteering in the community can provide you with the
opportunity to meet new people, learn new skills to help advance your career, and
facilitate personal growth.”
E. Preview statement: “We will begin this presentation by introducing our
organization and the connection between volunteerism and career opportunities.
We will then move on to the immediate benefits of volunteering – meeting new
people, leadership skills and the personal satisfaction that comes with it; and
finally show you a tool that will make this all reality for you.

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Transition: On behalf of the DeVry Young Professionals Network I’d like to thank you in
advance for your time and ask that you please hold your questions for the Q&A
session at the end of this presentation so we can have a thought provoking
discussion about everything we learned. I’m going to pass this on to my
coworker, Omar. Omar has been a Job Coach with our organization for the past
8 years and his main function is to assist high schools like yours implement
networking curriculum in their career development programs. His career spans
more than 20 years as a teacher and a job coach. You will be in very good hands.
Omar, please take it away.
Transition: Meeting new people while volunteering as a high school young professional
can help increase your self-confidence, but also it can boost your networking
social skills in your professional and personal development
II. Body
A. Benefits of volunteering: Volunteering in the community can provide you with
the opportunity to meet new people.
1. In your immediate benefits of networking social skills as a high school
young professional, networking is not only just for job searching rather
help you to move in active, makes your networking a part of your daily
routine.
a. As networking Volunteer researcher, is most likely to increase
your chances of getting job, simple because most business now
work through network and make life easier. Networking for
introverts. G. Chaudoye; D. Cuba; H. Riazuelo. (2015).
b. Volunteers can lead by an example. By volunteering, you can be
an example in your own community that can help others in the
community to show interest of networking programs.
2. Volunteering increases your social networking and relationship skills:
a. You can be easily navigating new technology through networking.
The research emphases, new technologies allow adult from 18 to 25
years old to have faster and more direct access to the world as well
as social life is hidden from parental view. G. Chaudoye; D. Cuba;
H. Riazuelo. (2015).
b. Develop your networking social skills. Naturally, some people are
very shy and find themselves having hard time meeting new
people. When you volunteer, it builds your confidence level; which

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will help you obtains goals in your professional and personal
development curriculum.
Transition: Keegan Faulkner has been a Career Coach with our organization for the past 6
years and his main function is to help high school young professionals like yours
learn the necessary skills that will allow them to advance in their current
professions or seek new career opportunities in the market place in their local
community.
Transition: Volunteering not only helps your society, your community grow as a whole, but
can help you as an individual grow as a leader and help your career.
B. Benefits of volunteering: Volunteering in the community will provide you with
the opportunity to learn new skills to help you advance your career.
1. Volunteering can help provide exceptional leadership skills.
a. I first would like to share a quote by Steven Hudoba, “Donating
time to a worthy cause can not only benefit society, but also help
sharpen your skills as a leader.”
b. It seems that many professionals do not have the time to donate in
our busy world as the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics show the
volunteer rate to be at 25 percent, which is a low since 2002. (S.J.
Hudoba, 2014). Volunteering is where rare, exceptional skills can
be learned that may turn many professionals into leaders.
c. Many skills are put to test in the volunteer environment like
persuasion, communication, morale building, and motivation skills
(S.J. Hudoba, 2014). Most senior managers have been volunteers
at some point in their lives and many promotions look for
volunteer experience as a must to move up. Lack of volunteer
experience could result in a disqualification from promotion to a
senior management position.
2. It is amazing the advantages volunteering can have on your career as well.
a. You, yourself can feel better and more empowering, but
volunteering can also help impact your career.
b. There is no need to feel stress when volunteering because whether
your daily stress comes from lack of transportation, loneliness, or
whatever the circumstance might be there are limitless ways
volunteering can happen (Arabia 2000).
c. If a new career is in your future and you would like to get your feet
wet to make sure it is a perfect fit for your life volunteering allows

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you to do this. It allows you to see what the job experience is all
about and how your specific skills can make a difference.
(Arabia 2000).
d. You can volunteer while remaining in your current field as well
because it gives you practice for qualities like team work, time
management, and problem solving. (Arabia 2000).
Transition: Diane Tolles has been a Job Success Mentor with our organization for the past
10 years and her main function is to help high school young professionals like
yourselves learn the necessary personal & communication skills that will promote
personal and professional growth in your local community
Transition: Now that you’ve met new people and learned how to advance your career, you
can focus on how volunteering can help you improve yourself.
C. Benefits of volunteering: Volunteering in the community facilitates personal
growth.
1. Volunteering is an excellent way to escalate self-confidence.
G. Kemp; J. Saisan; M. Smith. (2015).
a. Confidence is created when you succeed at something and
volunteering is nearly impossible to fail.
b. When a person faces their fears, keeps negative thoughts from
overtaking their mind, and completes the task of volunteering
several times they can become confident in themselves.
I. McCormick. (2015)
c. Volunteering gives the volunteer a purpose; helping people or
groups of people in need can act as a person’s life goal.
N. Dietz; R. Grimm; K. Spring. (2007)
2. Health has become a major concern in the United States recently and
volunteering helps keep people healthy.
a. People that volunteer have lower mortality rates than other people.
N. Dietz; R. Grimm; K. Spring. (2007)
b. Depression is lowered when people remain near other people and
volunteering allows for that to happen.
G. Kemp; J. Saisan; M. Smith. (2015).
c. Physical labor can build muscles and overall promote physical
activity.

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Transition: Kevin Jarnagin has been our CEO since the organization’s inception in 2000. As
a former IT Professor and current DeVry University board member, Kevin’s main
function, aside from the normal CEO duties, is the development and support of
our online tool which connects young professionals like you with employers and
volunteering opportunities across the country. We saved the best for last. Kevin.
Transition: Our team (Diane, Keegan, Omar, Regina and myself Kevin) today have set a
path, a road map that is called DYPN Online if you will; can lead all Chicago
high school young professionals toward a successful journey. This journey can
give all of you everything you need. Volunteering can help you continue your
personal and professional development.
III. Conclusion
A. Summary of Main Points:
1. Volunteering: Networking and Meeting People.
2. Volunteering: Learn New Skills & Your Advance Career
3. Volunteering: Promotes Personal Growth
B. Tie Back (Audience): As I briefly mentioned , the DeVry Young Professionals
Network Online tool is the roadmap; that is going to
be the go to for all your resources for volunteering. This
tool gives
everybody access to jobs, internships, volunteer
opportunities, also network opportunities, corporate events.
You will have to chance to reach out to local
volunteer
organizations in Chicago, but also nationwide. You will
also be able to see many Fortune 500 companies that have
overseen or contributed to many of the larger volunteer
organizations. Our team is here to help you develop
your volunteer goals help you to reach them.
C. Action Statement: We can help you begin the journey today, not tomorrow
We believe with your commitment today; to see the big
picture, to see that anything is possible, reaching for the
skies, and the heavens above are yours to take. All you
have to do is reach out to our team today and we can help
you reach your personal & professional goals set forth; to

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begin reaching out for volunteer opportunities as young
professionals. Help us build a better world.
D. Closing Remarks: Our team thanks you for giving us the opportunity to
present our plan to each and everyone one of you.
We
really can help you. We have provided handouts with our
contact information and also a copy of our presentation
today. To access these handouts, just login to your Chicago
Workability High School Career Development Program
and download these handouts, or if you are already logged
into our live session today, you can download them directly
from our web conference session.
In closing I like to share a quote with you today. “Alone we
can do so little; together we can do so much” (Helen
Keller).

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