You And Your Experience
Building experience is a good way to build personal confidence in life and work. There are many ways to build experience in a safe and stress-free way.
Volunteering
Volunteering helps you build skills that are useful for life, work, and wellbeing.
It is a flexible responsibility-free to build experience at your own pace.
Sometimes, helping others can make you feel good, too.
You can volunteer in an area of life you care about, boosting your motivation and enjoyment of life.
Volunteering looks good on your CV, too!
Do-it.orgVirtual Work Experience
All work experience is a way to get a taste of different kinds of work you might enjoy.
Work experience can help to reassure you about work environments and what you could do in the world of work.
Did you know? ‘Virtual’ means ‘online’. ‘Virtual work experience’ means work experience that you can do online from your home, phone, laptop, or computer.
Virtual work experience is a useful option if you are working with busy schedules, chronic pain, low energy levels, social anxiety, living somewhere remote or anything that might create a barrier to applying for physical work experience.
Search online for ‘virtual work experience’. You can find a wide range of options, from business admin to legal careers. For example, the McDonald’s Virtual Work Experience Programme can guide you through catering careers in general and also working at McDonald’s with real-life scenarios and activities.
How To Talk About Volunteering And Work Experience In Your CV
Say what volunteering / work experience you have done and list the organisation.
Mention what skills you have grown as a result (e.g. teamwork, problem solving, self-belief, communication, self-management). When you talk about these skills, you are talking in a language employers understand.
Mention any achievements (maybe you helped to complete an exciting project, or were given extra responsibilities because of your enthusiam and positive attitude).
Activity
Have you already done some work experience? Write a paragraph about your placement using the tips above. When you are happy with it, you can save it to add to cover letters and personal statements.
Would you like to try the McDonald’s Work Experience Programme? You can do it online, get started whenever you like, and work through the videos and workbooks at your own pace.
McDonald’s Virtual Work Experience
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