What Evidence Is There to Suggest That Work Experience Is Beneficial to Your Future Career?
What evidence is there to suggest that work experience is beneficial to your future career?
This essay is focused on the study of advantages on future career brought by work experience among graduates.With the growing popularity of so called 'sandwich' courses among universities in UK and Australia, many students would like to spend several months or even one more year for the chance of working in the industry before graduation from universities. A 'sandwich' course is usually organized by institutions as a university degree course which allows students to engage in the industrial placements for six to twelve months(Highfliers Research Ltd, 2012). Other than this kind of long-term work experience, placements during the vacations lasting several weeks are also popular among students with keen competition for these places among the applicants(Highfliers Research Ltd, 2012). In US, one out of every three university graduates has been an intern according to The National Society for Experiential Education(Watson 1995,cited in Gault et al, 2000), the ratio may have increased over the past two decades.This indicates that students generally believe work experience is beneficial in certain aspects given that some of those replacements or internships are unpaid. The following would discuss the relationship between work experience and a success future career for graduates which aims to give students an insight into the benefits of gaining work experience before entering the graduation job market. The study would base on the 3 sources given including a Journal Article, a research report and a web article.
Stand Out From The Crowd
To survive in the keen competition, graduates have to get noticed by the employers among million of graduates every year, showing that a bachelor degree is not the only thing they have got. According to the U.S. Labour Department, it was estimated that 18 million graduates would be competing for the 14 million college-level jobs
This essay is focused on the study of advantages on future career brought by work experience among graduates.With the growing popularity of so called 'sandwich' courses among universities in UK and Australia, many students would like to spend several months or even one more year for the chance of working in the industry before graduation from universities. A 'sandwich' course is usually organized by institutions as a university degree course which allows students to engage in the industrial placements for six to twelve months(Highfliers Research Ltd, 2012). Other than this kind of long-term work experience, placements during the vacations lasting several weeks are also popular among students with keen competition for these places among the applicants(Highfliers Research Ltd, 2012). In US, one out of every three university graduates has been an intern according to The National Society for Experiential Education(Watson 1995,cited in Gault et al, 2000), the ratio may have increased over the past two decades.This indicates that students generally believe work experience is beneficial in certain aspects given that some of those replacements or internships are unpaid. The following would discuss the relationship between work experience and a success future career for graduates which aims to give students an insight into the benefits of gaining work experience before entering the graduation job market. The study would base on the 3 sources given including a Journal Article, a research report and a web article.
Stand Out From The Crowd
To survive in the keen competition, graduates have to get noticed by the employers among million of graduates every year, showing that a bachelor degree is not the only thing they have got. According to the U.S. Labour Department, it was estimated that 18 million graduates would be competing for the 14 million college-level jobs
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