Work Experience

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Hi guys,

Once I leave work in a few days I want to look into doing some work experience in an IT firm, while I look for a new job. Figure, rather then sitting on my butt won’t do me any harm to try and get new skills or keep up to speed with the ones I do have.

Just I am not to sure how to go about this.
Should I just directly contact companies and ask? Or is trying to get some kind of voluntary work somewhere a better way of doing it.

thanks in advance

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Re: Work Experience

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*Originally posted by ukwali: *
Hi guys,

Once I leave work in a few days I want to look into doing some work experience in an IT firm, while I look for a new job. Figure, rather then sitting on my butt won't do me any harm to try and get new skills or keep up to speed with the ones I do have.

Just I am not to sure how to go about this.

Should I just directly contact companies and ask? Or is trying to get some kind of voluntary work somewhere a better way of doing it.

thanks in advance
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well u could directly apply to the companies and offer to do some voluntayy work for e.g. say 6 weeks or so, and then quit the job... this way u would gain some experience, job, looks neat on ones' CV and this count as vouluntary work as well.

This is wot my friend did, it worked well for him. Besides it's a lot better than sitting at home for longterm and having nothing to do, if u know wot i mean.

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ukwali, you can contact companies directly or go through headhunters/recruiters to nail a permanent position in your field.

Best of luck, dude! :k:

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if you are lookign for a permanent position just start applying to tagetted companies and start finding out about opportunities there through people.

if you are not looking for fulltime work, talk to a tech oriented temp agency.

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ukwali,

Why dont u talk to Murad - may be he will help u getting some Experience. Check if he can help.

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thanks for the advise guys. I need to redo my CV whihc i hate ack!

But Ill look into all those things

Najim: i hadn't actually thought of that Ill go down sometime next week and have a word

Ta :)