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WORK EXPERIENCE KEEP IN TOUCH:
AND VOLUNTEERING
10
reasons
to do work
experience:
3.
1.
Young people are more likely to be It’s the best way to get a real sense of
successful in their job hunt if they have done your chosen industry. You’ll get to speak to
some good work experience. Fact. employees and ask them questions. You
won’t know what it’s like until you get closer
to the action.
Want some evidence?
Well over half of the graduate recruiters 4.
that took part in a recent research study
said that, “graduates who have had Doing work experience shows passion and
no previous work experience at all interest. Evidence that you have done work
are unlikely to be successful during experience shows the employer that you
the selection process and have little are motivated to get into a chosen career
or no chance of receiving a job and that you’ve done your homework.
offer for their organisation’s
5.
graduate programmes.”
If you’re floundering about and frankly
aren’t that sure about your career, work
2. experience might just be the incentive you
If you haven’t got a clue what career need. If you do a variety of different work
you want to do, work experience is a placements, you might find something you
perfect way to sample all the career options are passionate about and get motivated.
out there. It’s a way of exploring different
jobs without committing to anything. You
can dip your toe in the water without
taking the full plunge.
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