Work Experience

This is an interesting subject, at least I'm interested in it!

There's one corner that says that unless work experience is directly related to the Diploma of study, then it's worthless, the other corner declares that employers value "generic" work experience.

In terms of the diploma, very clearly work experience in a particualr area can never be guaranteed. How can it be? So standards have to allow for generic work experience or indeed work in a "setting".

But the reality is that most students, certainly most schools and I'm sure Connexsions will all be doing whatever they can to organise the best placements for the student and that means starting the search in the area of interest.

I just that the scare stories are exactly that.