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Work Experience Dillema
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I am in my second year of university and next June we have to have a mandatory three weeks of work experience in the field of journalism.
So I applied to a magazine that I've read for a long time and enjoy for work experience and was really pleased to get a reply saying "yes".
However I received my information pack today and looking at what I'm actually going to be doing it's not exactly what I was expecting.
I know with most work experience you have to expect to be answering phones and making cups of tea and stuff. But I am at a point now where my work experience and my study has got me to the point where I am capable of subbing, writing my own editorials, writing features etc and I think that if I take the work placement here and do the stuff that I am going to do. Sure I will have the work experience to put on my CV but I won't get the experience i want.
I've done lots of work experience before at places like thesite (wooo) and News International. Both places where even at the age of 14 and 17 I was able to write my own editorials and got stuff published.
Should I continue my search for work experience that will actually get me to use my skills in subbing, editorial writing or stuff. Or should I keep it and make tea, answer phones and generally just get the experience for my CV.
Help please :chin:
So I applied to a magazine that I've read for a long time and enjoy for work experience and was really pleased to get a reply saying "yes".
However I received my information pack today and looking at what I'm actually going to be doing it's not exactly what I was expecting.
I know with most work experience you have to expect to be answering phones and making cups of tea and stuff. But I am at a point now where my work experience and my study has got me to the point where I am capable of subbing, writing my own editorials, writing features etc and I think that if I take the work placement here and do the stuff that I am going to do. Sure I will have the work experience to put on my CV but I won't get the experience i want.
I've done lots of work experience before at places like thesite (wooo) and News International. Both places where even at the age of 14 and 17 I was able to write my own editorials and got stuff published.
Should I continue my search for work experience that will actually get me to use my skills in subbing, editorial writing or stuff. Or should I keep it and make tea, answer phones and generally just get the experience for my CV.
Help please :chin:
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i only got to visit thesite.org
you got to work there
so if i were you id stick with the magazine. as they've sent you a pack it sounds as though your placements going to be structured, just make sure you take all the opportunites they give you, volunteer to help out people etc.
out of interest, which magazine is it? (PM me if you dont want to put it on here!) just because ive done some placements at a few national magazines and it'd be interesting to see if any were in the same group as the one you're going to.)