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Strategies for Gaining Valuable Work Experience

This presentation provides essential insights into how to gain work experience effectively. Learn the importance of setting personal goals, exploring various opportunities, and being proactive in your search. Understand the different types of work experiences available, from internships to volunteering, and how to leverage information hubs and networking for optimal outcomes. Discover practical strategies for sharing advice, as well as resources like CareerConnect to enhance your career prospects.

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Strategies for Gaining Valuable Work Experience

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  1. How to Get Experience Lucy Hawkins, Careers Adviser #careersbeyondprofit Download this PPT to open documents & read slide notes!

  2. Learning Outcomes • Understanding the value of goal-orientation • Evaluation of different work experience types • Knowledge of practical strategies to find opportunities • Consideration of ways to share advice for getting experience

  3. Two ideas Benefits of experience Forms of experience 1 idea =1 post-it

  4. What is ‘experience’?

  5. What is ‘experience’?

  6. Getting experience • We need to decide on our individual goals • We need to investigate different opportunities • We need to evaluate what might be useful • We need to be proactive!

  7. Getting experience • We need to decide on our individual goals • We need to investigate different opportunities • We need to evaluate what might be useful • We need to be proactive!

  8. Investigating different opportunities A strategy: Use informationhubs Self- initiate Network AdvertisedCompetitiveStructured UnadvertisedBespoke Changeable

  9. Internships • Oxford organised programmes • Career briefing tips • Majority ‘informal’, on application • CareerConnect • Vacancy sites • Guardian Jobs • Idealist Use info hubs

  10. CareerConnect • Not used CareerConnect before? • This 7 minute video‘tour’ might be helpful! Use info hubs

  11. In-term • The Student Consultancy • Insight into Teaching • Access and Widening Participation work • The Shed Use info hubs

  12. Volunteering: Oxford • http://oxfordhub.org/ • http://www.oxnet.org.uk/ Volunteer Centre OxfordshireFloyds Row, St AldatesM-F, 9.30am - 4.30pm 01865 251946, vol@ocva.org.uk • ethicalproperty.co.uk/oldmusichalltenants.php • www.oxford.gov.uk -> Community Centres Use info hubs

  13. Volunteering: wider • http://www.do-it.org.uk/ • http://www.csv.org.uk/ • http://vinspired.com/ • http://timebank.org.uk/ • Voluntary roles on sector vacancy websites Use info hubs

  14. Speculative Asking for: • Recommended person to speak to • Permission to seek advice • Advice – with clear areas of discussion • Suggestions of people to contact • Shadowing? Wk exp? Talking to: • Oxford Careers Network alumni mentors • Emails on vacancy adverts • Contact number on organisation website • College alumnus • Contacts through introductions Network

  15. Outside the box Independently: • What could you teach yourself? • What knowledge could you acquire? • How could you make this visible? With an organisation: • What could you offer? • What benefits could it bring to them? • What do you need in return? Self- initiate

  16. Getting experience • We need to decide on our individual goals • We need to investigate different opportunities • We need to evaluate what might be useful • We need to be proactive! Relevant Internship = Shadowing Paid work in other sector ? Voluntary work

  17. Getting experience • We need to decide on our individual goals • We need to investigate different opportunities • We need to evaluate what might be useful • We need to be proactive! • Read Career Briefing for my preferred sector • Sign up for CareerConnect emails • Sign up for email alerts • Research organisation websites • Make list of target organisations • Make speculative contacts • Talk to alumni mentors • Read recommended wider reading • Set milestones to keep on track How could we share this?

  18. www.careers.ox.ac.uk/careersbeyondprofit 01865 274646reception@careers.ox.ac.uk Q&A#careersbeyondprofit

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