How long is sufficient work experience?

I've got work experience at a law firm in their finance department, and they've asked me how long I want to do it for. I'm actually struggling to decide because I don't know if one week will be enough or if two weeks will be too much. I must admit as well that I am terrified of doing work experience for fear of embarrassing myself :/ Advice?


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There's no such thing as too much work experience, especially in places like law firms. Get as much as you can, it will help you tremendously in the future.

I've only asked for a week, my sister works there and it's a very small finance team and she reckons I'd simply be bored if I were there for more than a week.

You're missing the point... you have the opportunity to gain some valuable work experience, which is pretty hard to come by, yet you only asked for a week? Even if you do get bored, my advice is to ask for at least a month and soldier on... you'll thank me later and this will be pretty impressive on your CV.

A week, however... isn't pointless but when you have the opportunity to do so much more, begs the question why even bother?

Do you think it would be better though if I also applied to other accountants afterwards and asked for experience there also? I have my whole summer to build up my uni application and CV with volunteering and hopefully more work experience, which is why I don't want to work at this firm for too long.


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I've only asked for a week, my sister works there and it's a very small finance team and she reckons I'd simply be bored if I were there for more than a week.

I've got work experience at a law firm in their finance department, and they've asked me how long I want to do it for. I'm actually struggling to decide because I don't know if one week will be enough or if two weeks will be too much. I must admit as well that I am terrified of doing work experience for fear of embarrassing myself :/ Advice?


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