How to Get Experience

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’?

6. What is ‘experience’?

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. 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!

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

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

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

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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

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! Relevant Internship = Shadowing Paid work in other sector ? Voluntary work

18. 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?

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