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Take the initiative when you have the time in your first year of university to secure work experience, as your final year will be focused on academia.
Looking back on her own postgraduate experience, Pedersen says the best thing she did was secure work experience before picking her course.
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Students have also been involved in the work, and have secured work experience through it.
If you do succeed in securing work experience, make sure that you put a timescale on it.
Denmark's Prince Joachim, after studying agrarian economics, secured work experience at the shipping, oil, and agricultural company A.P Moller Maersk Group before running his own farming and forestry operations.
The mothers who ask you: "Have you done yours yet?", who urge early submission, to beat the crowds, and who go on websites to share about "personal statement hell", are doing no more than comply with Ucas expectations, as they follow through on years of help with homework, securing work experience, renting violins.
We learnt that the sons of two former commissioners secured work experience at the Sun; a third commissioner was helped by a senior editor at the News of the World when he was applying for the top post; and John Yates, once an assistant commissioner, faced accusations, which he denied, that a tabloid journalist plied him with champagne in return for stories.
I am reminded that I am still one of the few when I manage to secure some work experience, only to be told that the office isn't accessible, sorry.
How have former students secured their work experience placements?
Fortunately a quick chat with Zippos' personnel manager Paul Winston appears to have secured some work experience, circa 2017.
"It's a tool we hope will kick the old boy network into touch and help democratise the process of securing valuable work experience.
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