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Career Development - Voluntary Work Experience
Relevant work experience, much like vacation work, is becoming increasingly important in terms of providing career development opportunities for students.
The advantages can include:
- Something to strengthen your résumé
- Make contacts to unearth future job opportunities
- Road-test your employability skills and personal attributes in a workplace
- Gain new perspectives on employment and career pathways
Download the Career Development - Voluntary Work Experience Insurance Coverage Application Form
This application form must be completed before commencement of any unpaid voluntary work experience. Contact the Careers Service for further information.
Voluntary Work Experience supports the further development of (selected) career-related graduate attributes:
Personal Management
- Develop abilities to maximise personal characteristics, experiences and relationships that improve life, learning and work
- Develop abilities for building positive relationships in life and work
- Develop strategies for responding to life and work changes
Learning and Work Exploration
- Link life-long learning to the career building process
- Participate in continuous learning supportive of career goals
- Locate, interpret, evaluate and use career information
- Evaluate social, demographic, technological, occupational and industrial trends that impact on work and learning opportunities
Career Building
- Develop abilities to seek, obtain/create and maintain preferred work/career options
- Engage in career decision-making
- Incorporate adult life reality into career decision-making
- Make career decisions suited to, and supportive of, personal needs, values and goals
- Demonstrate an understanding of engaging in, and managing the career building process
Voluntary work experience is separate and distinct from any course related practicum or clinical placement. And, work experience for career development purposes does not, necessarily, have to be related to a student’s current course of study.
University insurance policies protect a student undertaking a work experience opportunity that is approved by the University’s Careers Service.
The Careers Service maintains a work experience register in order to recognise and approve career development activities engaged in by students.
Contact the Careers Service for further information.