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How to Get Experience
Lucy Hawkins, Careers Adviser
#careersbeyondprofit
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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
Two ideas
Benefits of experience
Forms of experience
1 idea = 1 post-it
Form of experience
Form of experience
Form of experience
Form of experience
Form of experience
Benefit of experience Benefit of experience Benefit of experience Benefit of experience
What is ‘experience’?
What is ‘experience’?
Getting experience
1. We need to decide on our individual goals
2. We need to investigate different opportunities
3. We need to evaluate what might be useful
4. We need to be proactive!
Getting experience
1. We need to decide on our individual goals
2. We need to investigate different opportunities
3. We need to evaluate what might be useful
4. We need to be proactive!
Investigating different opportunities
Network Self- initiate
Use information
hubs
A strategy:
AdvertisedCompetitiveStructured
UnadvertisedBespokeChangeable
Internships
• Oxford organised programmes
• Career briefing tips• Majority ‘informal’,
on application• CareerConnect• Vacancy sites– Guardian Jobs– Idealist
Use info
hubs
CareerConnect Use info
hubs
Not used CareerConnect before?This 7 minute video ‘tour’ might be helpful!
In-term
• The Student Consultancy• Insight into Teaching• Access and Widening Participation work• The Shed
Use info
hubs
• http://oxfordhub.org/• http://www.oxnet.org.uk/
Volunteer Centre OxfordshireFloyds Row, St AldatesM-F, 9.30am - 4.30pm01865 251946, [email protected]
• ethicalproperty.co.uk/oldmusichalltenants.php
• www.oxford.gov.uk -> Community Centres
Volunteering: Oxford
Use info
hubs
• http://www.do-it.org.uk/ • http://www.csv.org.uk/• http://vinspired.com/• http://timebank.org.uk/ • Voluntary roles on sector vacancy
websites
Volunteering: wider
Use info
hubs
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
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
Getting experience
1. We need to decide on our individual goals
2. We need to investigate different opportunities
3. We need to evaluate what might be useful
4. We need to be proactive!
Relevant Internship
Shadowing
Voluntary work
Paid work in other sector
=
?
Getting experience
1. We need to decide on our individual goals
2. We need to investigate different opportunities
3. We need to evaluate what might be useful
4. 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 trackHow could we share this?
www.careers.ox.ac.uk/careersbeyondprofit 01865 274646
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