Have you come across a time when your school organizations begin recruiting new members and have approached you for this chance? If you’re thinking of turning down this opportunity, you better reconsider.  These 5 benefits that you get from joining school organizations are too great to pass out.   

• A place to develop your soft skills

Participating in organizations is like a trial version of working in an agency: you get to work with others or alone in projects and you learn discipline, time management, and a sense of responsibility. These tasks allow you to develop important soft skills that would beneficial to you in the long run. Soft skills are intangible assets that are often undermined by graduate students but highly valued by employers. Organizations help you master these soft skills to give that extra boost in your resume after graduation. 

• An avenue for your personal growth

Organizations aren’t just concerned about making you better workers, but also good people. Participation in organizations pushes you to your boundaries and allows you to reflect on yourself. What am I good at? What should I improve on? How should I improve myself? Through this, you get to develop a sense of self-confidence that would be difficult to obtain by just passing your subjects and listening to your professors.

• Having the opportunity to be a leader and a follower

Don’t know if you’re a leader or a follower? Get the answer through organizations! Organizations give new, inexperienced students like you to try-out leadership positions in projects, so you can identify your strengths and areas for improvement about your leadership. At the same time, organizations put you into places where you can learn from the experts or superiors in doing certain tasks. There’s no pressure in choosing to be a leader or a member in a school organization; it’s flexible enough to accommodate the time and effort you can give for the organization as most of the people leading it are students like you.

• Exposing yourself to new fields

Being in an organization puts you in new fields and experiences. For example, some certain organizations are required to spearhead community engagement activities even though members are new and foreign to the idea of community engagement activities. Other organizations might be required to create fundraising activities even though the project heads aren’t business majors. Organizations allow students to learn outside the four corners of the classroom and obtain skills that can’t be developed inside a regular class.   

• A great experience you don’t want to miss!

Overall, being in an organization can become one of your memorable experiences in your college life. You get to meet new friends, amazing people, and life-changing mentors that can influence your career or direction in life. Though, the best thing about participating in organizations is that it leaves you a sense of altruistic fulfillment for taking part in your organization’s growing development and achievement of their goals and interests.

 References: 

http://www.bentley.edu/prepared/12-reasons-why-you-should-join-student-organization
http://www.zencollegelife.com/top-10-reasons-to-join-clubsorganizations/
https://www.hercampus.com/school/unf/6-reasons-join-club-college-0
https://www.wikijob.co.uk/content/interview-advice/competencies/soft-skills

Contributed by: Allison Julianne Macasaet
She is a freelance writer on the side, a student of international relations on the other. Interests include fantasy books, international relations, and lifestyle.