This paper tries to discover the linkage between volunteering and youth employability and/or competitiveness in the labor market in Croatia. Or, can volunteering be used as a mechanism for facilitating the transition from the education system to the labor market and thereby contributing to their employability and / or competitiveness immediately after leaving the education system. Employers through questionnaires and surveys note lack of experience as the biggest barrier to youth employment. Given the lack of practical programs in education and the mechanisms that will enable the acquisition of experience for the purpose of easier employment in Croatia, volunteering seems to be a way of gaining experience. Several studies show that volunteering in the long run contributes to "individual employability" by increasing knowledge, skills, self-esteem, mental and physical health and well-being. Similarly, we have a mismatch between the educational system and the needs of the market. While many volunteer researches and self-evaluations show that certain volunteering programs acquire organizational, communicative and other skills, work experience and a wider social network that can contribute to finding employment, longitudinal research shows that there is a small and even negative correlation between volunteering and employment outcomes. There is a lack of empirical evidence on the territory of Croatia that could safely confirm or reject the hypothesis. In order to reliably determine the contribution of volunteering to the employability and/or competitiveness of young people in Croatia, further research is needed to specifically address this issue. In this paper, we provide analysis and review of literature that could serve as a framework for such an analysis.