An important question regarding how many people have considered work experience as valuable or worthwhile after graduating?
At the moment the possible exploitation of interns has been something that I have been worried about for a while. In order to gain useful work experience in a particular field, work experience in that sector is generally a necessity. Thus, unpaid internships as a result are almost a necessity to get in to some sectors.
Most of the internships seem to be focused around London and are unpaid.
Travel expenses are very expensive and many of us can't seriously afford to spend that money. Taking on an internship for 5months or a year can be very rewarding and provide great experience. But you can gain equally as many good skills from vetted shorter work experience placements. We hope that it will help improve social mobility as not all of us do have a large amount of money to fall back on to get that desperately needed work experience.
You've probably heard all the scaremongering about CVs at the bottom of a recruiter's haphazard (and completely random) pile being dismissed or worse, binned before being looked at, but the truth of the matter is that it is difficult to get noticed when portraying yourself on paper alone. Face-to-face contact, a positive demeanour and the willingness to go beyond the job's description will help you stand out. Since, two employers I met through temping offered me permanent work, but the roles just weren't for me. So back to temping it is, and the hope that this could help me land a job I truly find satisfying. After all, out of small acorns, great oaks grow.
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