It is becoming more important to undertake a period of experience, especially if you’re a student or recently graduated. The labor market is tight, and more and more employers are becoming increasingly choosy and very keen to recruit graduates who have at least some of the current knowledge about the world of work above and beyond what was implemented at the school. And is that job applicants should be more aware.

Period of work experience benefits both the employer and the applicant as it may suggest the following:

For applicants, it provides an opportunity to:

- Put the theory of learning in practice, if they follow professional degree
- Get practical experience in their chosen career or to begin to develop skills in the transfer of “employment”
- Consider alternative career options
- Find out what they really like or do not like doing

For employers:

- Ability to assess the possibility of potential employees. Accommodation can be regarded as extended interviews, allowing a much more thorough assessment of candidates.
- Includes existing staff in the new process, the development of their skills and making them look at their jobs in more detail
- Internees often come with fresh eyes, which are not limited to the company after working for many years, which can help solve problems
- Development of formal training policy
- An extra pair of hands to develop in anticipation of ideas

If you have already decided on your career, you can use work experience to demonstrate your commitment, and that is especially important for certain professional and financial careers. If you have not yet decided that this is a good way to test the waters of various industries and has the advantage of developing your workplace skills transfer.

Experience can be found in various forms:

- Formal training and placement of structured programs, which can often lead to work. Not really an apprenticeship, but we can feel quite similar
- Casual work experience for short periods of time. Much more informal, wages and basically just a taster of what can come, if you choose this line of
- Voluntary work and work shadowing, both unpaid, but will give you and experience to add your resume and develop their skills in the workplace

If you are lucky enough to find a placement or internship advertised or offered through the university career service, you have to approach companies for a random experience. When writing on them, find the name of the appropriate contact and personal letters to your request for their business, to indicate how they, and you’ll both benefit from the arrangement, and you’ll have more chances.

Once you have your work experience, try to keep a record of the tasks and skills used to be able to assess what skills (see http://www.get.hobsons.co.uk/advice/work-experience- skills for more information) you have acquired and developed. This will allow you to write much more, CV and letter of application to real work, when the time comes and help you on your way to get the career you are looking for.