Does voluntary work experience count in India?

Do voluntary work count as work experience?

• I am 22 and have no paid work experience but I have voluntary experience, does that count with the same merit as paid work?

• Answer:

  Yes, of course it's work experience. If it's relevant. For instance, if you have been a volunteer firefighter for 10 years, that could be the most important factor in whether you get hired by a full-time fire department, when competing with applicants having no real experience at all. If you have 10 years of volunteer experience as a tour guide at an art museum, it's not going to help you get hired as a research physicist, but it shows you have loyalty and don't spend you spare time playing Hunt The Wumpus in your parent's basement.