Comments on: Work experience?

By: julia fomina

julia fomina — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:19:06 +0000

hello, I am looking for advice and maybe help. Im in my second year and im doing scientific illustration course. In may I will need to find a work placement and I don’t know where to look and what shell I do. I feel very lost and confused because I don’t even know how to approach companies. I really need some advise on what to do and how to do it. I hope someone on this website can help me. Please. Looking forward hearing from you.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:36:59 +0000

i really want work experience in the fashion idustry
i dont know where to look
i need somewhere near birmingham/ wolverhampton
but i just can t find anywhere
can anyone help?
or point me in the right direction?

By: Ken Davidson

Ken Davidson — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:43:22 +0000

Yup. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. Or something.

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:31:20 +0000

Actually, some aversion therapy probably isn’t a bad idea. I chose to do my school work experience in a bank and subsequently decided I never wanted to work in a bank, or any kind of office, ever again.

By: Ken Davidson

Ken Davidson — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:19:27 +0000

But it’s work /experience/ – good or bad, and witnessing people within the commercial strictures of larger organisation is probably more useful than dallying through copies of Creative Review in a design agency. And that’s just my experience too ;)

By: Maxwell Scott-Slade

Maxwell Scott-Slade — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:33:31 +0000

But these large companies usually have horrible graphics departments. Just my experience but some small companies do take a fair amount of work experience places. I don’t know anyone currently accepting placements though, sorry!

By: Ken Davidson

Ken Davidson — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:33:02 +0000

I’ve been on the receiving end of these requests many times, in my previous life as a partner in a small firm. When we couldn’t fit the kid in, I’d always suggest telephoning large non-connected businesses (like Severn Trent, National Grid et al) – they tend to have a PR or graphics department, and are far more likely to have an established pattern for helping work experience folk.