What you can expect
Work experience placements and volunteering are great ways of gaining skills and experience and may lead to finding your future job. It also helps you discover what you like and don’t like doing, all whilst adding to your CV!
Benefits for students
- Clarifying own career goals
- Gaining an insight into the way organisations operate and the challenges they face
- Increasing skills and knowledge
- Networking
- Understanding a particular job or industry
- Future employment opportunity
Benefits for employers
- A chance to spot new talent and assess individual potential with a view to possible future employment
- A source of new ideas and enthusiasm
- Develop opportunities for staff by giving them the chance to act as a supervisor or mentor
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