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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You may need to put in time to earn the org's trust. When they know you are reliable and do a good job, then they can start to have expectations of you. Before that, they're just hoping you show up. [/quote] This is a Catch 22 situation. You can't tell people you need their specific skills to help the organization, and then when they show up have them sit in a corner twiddling their thumbs on something useless. As a fabricated example, imagine Habitat for Humanity had a skilled and licensed master electrician who signed up to volunteer. They show up and instead of having them do electrical work, Habitat has the electrician spend the day sitting on a bucket separating mixed up nails in a box. Do you think that electrician will ever come back? Trust is a two-way street. If you need someone to separate nails, then tell them that's what they'll be doing. Don't ask for skills and then waste the time of people who have them. [/quote]
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