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how do i find work experiences

hi im going into year 12 in september and i'm trying to find work experiences in london but not sure where to look. i haven't decided what i want to do in the future so i wanna try different work experiences to help me decide. does anyone know any companies or websites that offer some?
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by xoaishaa
hi im going into year 12 in september and i'm trying to find work experiences in london but not sure where to look. i haven't decided what i want to do in the future so i wanna try different work experiences to help me decide. does anyone know any companies or websites that offer some?


Hi if you’re unsure I would recommend signing up to young professionals as they host a number of events trailer to different career pathways e.g. finance. Also when you get to y12 be on the look out for Sutton Trust Pathways or Summer school. They have one for different careers and you basically get work experience in the pathway of your choosing and a mentor. Having LinkdIn is important as well as you can find out about experiences more specific to something you may want to do

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by tb_7
Hi if you’re unsure I would recommend signing up to young professionals as they host a number of events trailer to different career pathways e.g. finance. Also when you get to y12 be on the look out for Sutton Trust Pathways or Summer school. They have one for different careers and you basically get work experience in the pathway of your choosing and a mentor. Having LinkdIn is important as well as you can find out about experiences more specific to something you may want to do

thank you so muchh!!!

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by xoaishaa
hi im going into year 12 in september and i'm trying to find work experiences in london but not sure where to look. i haven't decided what i want to do in the future so i wanna try different work experiences to help me decide. does anyone know any companies or websites that offer some?

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by DerDracologe
Springpod, unifrog, the forage are all virtual

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by xoaishaa
hi im going into year 12 in september and i'm trying to find work experiences in london but not sure where to look. i haven't decided what i want to do in the future so i wanna try different work experiences to help me decide. does anyone know any companies or websites that offer some?

hi @xoaishaa !

A good way to find companies/businesses you might want to do work experience for is LinkedIn -https://www.linkedin.com/home. I am in my second year of university and I used this to find people/places I wanted to work for. I then found their email through their websites attached on their LinkedIn pages and sent each company a personalised email saying how I was looking for work experience, the hours I was looking to fill and that I would ideally liked to be payed but am open to discussion.

However, writing personal emails to every single company can take a long time so you could either write a more generalised one that you can send out to a wide range of companies or use AI tools to help you quickly tweak and personalise each email to that particular company. Even though you are in year 12 I think this method should work for you as well.

Hopefully this is helpful and good luck with your search

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