Work experience and internships

Work experience is professional experience in a workplace setting. Whether you do it online or in person, it gives you crucial insight into a particular job role or employment industry, and it helps to improve your employability. 

An internship is a fixed-term entry level position that gives you the opportunity to learn about an organization and sector and pick up some work experience at the same time. You can arrange an internship yourself, or you can apply for opportunities advertised through the university, including micro-internships.

Benefits of work experience

• Strengthen your CV and make yourself more attractive to future employers. 

• Test out a new job role or employment industry, without committing to it. 

• Develop new skills and build on existing ones. 

• Make new professional contacts that you might benefit from in future. 

• Set yourself apart from your peers who don’t have any work experience. 

Some internship or work experience opportunities are unpaid, but you should never pay to participate.