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(Sings) Welcome, welcome, welcome to my blog!
Hello, I hope you liked that, just a little
something something, (laughs).
So hi guys, I hope you are all doing really,
really, really well and you’re all enjoying the snow,
well, what’s left of it of course!
So today, I won’t keep you for long I promise,
but basically all I wanted to do was have a tiny,
tiny, tiny discussion about why work experience
in education life is mega, mega, mega important.
Why it’s so important to do some sort
of work experience, internship, placement,
volunteering and this topic is coming from a class
I had today as a music student about
how we can work better to draw the opportunities,
in terms of work experience, towards us
and what we can do to better ourselves
as individuals so that we have a lot more
opportunities coming to us.
So I wrote it all down on my laptop so forgive me
if my eyes wander. But yeah, opportunities.
University is such an important time
and work experience is so important because
you get to meet new people.
That’s the one I tend to always lead with because
it’s everyone’s favourite. You get to meet new people,
experience different things and different environments.
But I think the most important thing about
work experience is that you figure out if
it’s the right job for you. To me, that’s key
because I know a lot of people that didn’t do
work experience while they were at uni,
did it after uni and ended up deciding that
even though university was so amazing,
the job was just not for them.
The thing is, if they had of done work experience prior,
while they were at university alongside their course
then they would have seen that the job isn’t for them.
So, figuring out whether the job is for you
while on work experience is a big thing.
Looking at all the different responsibilities
and tasks that you might be asked to do in a proper
job I think is really important and one of the key
figures of why students should do work experience.
Another reason why I think it is so important,
as students, doing work experience is for the contacts.
I’m a music student and everyone always
says that musicians need to have contacts;
that’s how we become successful.
It’s not just for music students though.
From being a doctor, to a nurse, to an engineer,
to a mathematician, to a scientist, we all need contacts.
We all need people that will help us elevate
ourselves into being more and more successful.
We don’t know everything so if we have
one person that knows how you apply
for this job and how do you do this, it benefits us.
So contacts in any field are mega, mega important
and I would advise getting out here
and mingling with people of your field
to get the best knowledge you can.
Also, and I think this is an important one,
is seeing your weaknesses and strengths.
It’s one thing to be in a university life
and experiencing it from a university point of view,
but when you get into a work environment
you start to see how hard it is to do certain things;
mixing with certain characters, working in a team,
working as one, working for a deadline
or working for a one day deadline.
Working with harsh characters or too soft characters,
working somewhere busy or really quiet,
there are so many factors and there are
so many different ways of weaknesses
coming out and I think that’s a perfect time
for our weakness to come out so you can work on it,
develop it and make it into a strength.
Also, you start to see how strong you are as a person,
as a worker and see how you can conquer anything,
so it’s so important. And obviously, meeting new people,
making new friends, developing people that
might help you along with your career one day in life.
It might be from meeting someone who might help
you getting a job to meeting someone that might
be your boss in the future – developing professional
and personal relationships with people that could
one day help you achieve your dreams.
As well as these friendships and things like that,
they could also help you with various things
and this is all leading back to the contacts thing again.
They could you with learning how to interview properly;
they could help you with learning how to
write a professional application and CVs.
All these contacts could help you with so
many different avenues it’s important to keep
that network of people around you
and that’s why I say do work experience
while you’re at university rather than after university.
But I’m not saying don’t do work experience after
university because the more experience,
the better off you are. But I think your first point of
work experience should be while you’re in
school so that it starts you figuring out what it is
that you want to do and how you’re going to
get there and is this right for me, is this perfect?
I truly believe that everyone one time in their life
should do work experience.
There are different avenues of work experience by the way.
We have graduate schemes for when you leave school,
we have placements, we have internships.
You have placements and internships that
could last for a year and have them
that could last for up to 2 weeks, 3 months, 3 days.
They could be paid, not paid.
So you see, there are loads of different avenues
of where to go so don’t think if you’re doing
a placement that you’re stuck in it for a good year
because that’s not necessarily how it works.
And there are different placements from being
more office based to outdoors running around
so you basically pick what suits you
and what you think you’ll be comfortable with.
So I’d say talk to your career advisor,
talk to your teachers, talk to people around you
and most of all, the cardinal rule, do your research!
Don’t be afraid to ask questions
and develop your knowledge because learners
are the people that will succeed in life
because you’re willing to go the extra mile.
So ask as many questions as you can,
develop your skills and your knowledge
and add to your skill base as much as possible.
Have a great day! If you have any other questions,
please don’t hesitate to ask me.
I’m all fun, I’ll be nice, I promise.
Have a lovely day.
Enjoy whatever it is you guys are doing!
(Sings) Thank you, thank you, thank you
for watching my video! (Laughs).