Internships and work experience
Work experience and internships advice
Work experience: it's your window onto working life, gaining skills that will make you employable and finding out whether a career will suit you. Whatever you do - a year-long internship, a summer job or a two-week placement - every bit of experience counts.
Essential advice on work experience and internships
Employers with work experience
Graduate employers from a wide range of career sectors offering internships, placements and work experience.
Browse employers with internships and placements
Get experience from your first year
Right from the start you can make yourself more employable while you study and have fun at uni.
Gaining employability skills at university
Identify your strengths
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Advice on part-time jobs
Cash for the weekend and experience in the bank; student part-time jobs are great for getting skills graduate employers want.
Working part-time as a student
University job shops
Check out our database of university job shops. They can help you find part-time work near to uni to fit in around your studies.
Find a job shop near you
Taking a gap year
Places to go and experiences to collect... essential advice to help you plan a successful gap year and sell your skills to graduate employers.
Gap year advice
Work experience tracker
This handy worksheet is structured to help you keep track of what you've learned during an internship or work experience placement... or even a part-time job. It's a good reference tool for identifying examples of skills you can talk about on your graduate applications and in interviews: Download work experience tracker
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