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• The Career-building effect of volunteering in higher education

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  Hajnalka Fényes

  Márta Mohácsi

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  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.