How to Build Work Experience for a Great First Job

It is rare that you have a choice to make regarding your work assignments or not.

However, if you really do, you must be on the lookout for a part-time job or work project on the lines of the career you want to pursue in the future. For example, if you wish to become a corporate communications professional, you could find job work or assignments with the Department of Communication Studies or any other related discipline.

Build Work Experience

You must also work on developing adequate work experience. This will be a kick start to surviving in the increasing cut-throat competition, when you are really on the look out in the industry searching for your first ever full-time job.

Internships, Summer Trainings and Volunteering Opportunities

Another good way to develop quality work experience is to look out for internships or summer trainings or even opportunities for volunteering in varied projects and events. If these trainings are paid, good for you, but even if they are not, they add tonnes about you to your resume.

If you aspire to be a journalist or a writer, you could opt as a volunteer for your resident campus magazine, newspaper or even your college’s or department’s journal or newsletter.

If you aim to be a social worker, you could be a regular visitor to old age homes, poverty stricken areas and homeless shelters. Similarly, if you aspire to get into stocks as a broker, you could look for summer training or an internship at a firm dealing in stocks and securities.

Become a tutor if you specialize in a particular art or science

Working for somebody is not the only channel these days to make some money. You might be a champ in a particular subject, say computer dynamics. So you could just gather some students who require assistance with the subject and tutor them. Similarly, if you are fond of children, you could approach professors or other personnel in your college and offer to baby-sit their children.

You just need to channelize your energies, get your talent in action and be a successful young entrepreneur.