CHOOSING A WORK PLACEMENT AFTER UNIVERSITY


Upon leaving university, you may be thinking about taking on an unpaid work placement. This guide will explain why such work placements are useful and how they can help with your career planning.


Why Work Placements are Useful (and How They’ll Help Your Career):


Work placements provide graduates with a unique opportunity: the ability to find out more about individual jobs with a practical, hands-on approach. Work placements are ideal for graduates who are unsure about which sector to enter, and who wish to learn more about a particular field.


Work placements will help you make up your mind about the type of job it is that you want to do.


Take on several placements and gain experience of the different job roles available. You’ll be able to talk with people who have performed the roles for years and extract important advice that may help you in the future.


In addition, work placements are great for helping your CV stand out from the crowd. Are your peers spending their summers playing computer games or attending


parties? Although these activities are fun, investing your time into voluntary work will bring you one step closer to getting your ‘dream job’. You’ll become more employable by gaining really important skills, plus you’ll meet a host of new people and make valuable contacts. Even if the company cannot afford to keep you


on long term, they may be able to provide you with a relevant, glowing reference for another company in the same sector.


Finding the Work Placement


Finding a work placement is not an arduous task; in fact, it only requires you to conduct a search online and make a few phone calls.


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