-Work experience is an essential component on the CV for postgrads
- Some skills are learnt/developed from actual experience within the work place, cant be taught in a classroom
-personal development from real experience
-Placements develop the skills you already have and give you new skills
-Working with role specific equipment and software
- Gives students an opportunity to experience real life issues which come hand in hand with working e.g punctuality, presentation
- These placements can act as a transition stage between education and full time work
-they also boost your CV
- Help people to gain further insight into a specific role before fully committing to it
- Give a student the opportunity to work in this field with the ability to ask to assistance and guidance without being deemed unable
- Learn the culture of the work place
-These placements can lead to being offered a perminant position, allows to showcase your skills
Internships -- short periods of time, multinational organisations, usually during summer, highly competitive, tend to have salary but much lower rate, often employed after
Voluntary work, course specific placements,
Reflections:
Experience within work force is a widely sought after and important by employers, it is key for a student to compete against other qualified applicants. Placements are a really good idea to get hands on experience in a role specific to your chosen career it also gives you a chance to prove yourself a reliable and esteemed part of the team, so that they might decided to hire you as a paid member of the team. It is important to consider that when I graduate, I will be competing with other post graduates for one role- a placement or placements can help to set you apart from the other applicants. It is also a really good idea to give yourself an idea of what the role involves before deciding that it is definitely what you want to do.
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