
Unit 12: Preparing for placement
Why do work experience? The student's perspective
Work Experience is an oppurtunity to try out Jobs and find out what type of role would suit you after Graduation. It is also the major route into finding Graduate work. More than a third of of Sandwich Placement Students go on to work for the same Employer permanently (Source: Incomes Data Service, 2005).
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SMILE - Preparing for Placement by Leeds Metropolitan University Employability Office, modified by Marion Kelt Glasgow Caledonian University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/metoffice/employability/resources/learning_objects/workexperience/index.htm.