0 the experience that a person already has of working:
Please list your educational qualifications and work experience.
Many firms understand that giving work experience to students from colleges and schools will benefit everyone in the long term.
1 a period of time during which a young person, usually a student, works for a company or organization in order to get experience of a particular type of work:
Networking, work experience, and shadowing are now usual steps on the path to employment.
do/gain/get work experience Every student can do a year's work experience in commerce, industry or the public sector.
offer/provide work experience Nine out of ten of the firms surveyed were in favour of offering work experience to pupils from disadvantaged areas.
2 the jobs that someone has had, or the type of work they have done, in the past:
Despite advanced degrees and years of work experience, women are still under-represented in the higher echelons of business.
Applicants with few marketable skills and little work experience struggle in today's job market.
Given the number of employees in these work teams, this was clearly the normal work experience for an employee of the priory.
Advances in the mass long-distance travel market and telecommunications underpin the accelerating globalisation of work experience, vacations and, potentially, retirement residence.
Shunning retirement : work experience of men in their seventies and early eighties.
The aim of these measures was to provide the unemployed with work experience and training in the regular labour market.
Nearly half the foster parents we recruited were already licensed and had previous work experience.
Thus, the difference in employment status and work experience is partially responsible for the gender gap in political participation.
Students are still in their learning stage and generally have limited work experience.
An additional month's wage was accorded for each additional year of work experience.
