Finding work experience
How do I find work experience?
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- Brilliant employability skills (e-book) emphasises the need for you to create your own individual employability profile and brand in order to compete successfully in today's graduate job market, and provides you with the tools and techniques to allow you to gain and communicate the range of employability skills that will make you stand out from the crowd and get the job that you want. It's important that you start this process from your first year at university.
Now more than ever it's important to start looking for relevant work experience from year one, whether that's through part time work, vacation work, sandwich placements or voluntary work.
Ways of finding advertised work experience jobs
- Our graduate jobs and work experience job board
- Ask your lecturers for any work experience contacts
- Attend targetted work experience jobs fairs
- Graduate internships
- Prospects
- TargetJobs
- Step - project-based work experience lasting 3-12 months.
- Fledglings.net
- Rate my placement
- Enternships
- Employ-ability posts for students and graduates with disabilities.
- Gradcracker - for engineering and science opportunities
There are also lots of opportunities for paid work experience abroad, lasting from a few weeks to a whole year.
Speak with a careers adviser
Don't forget you can speak to a Careers Adviser about finding work experience.
