Work experience gives you an opportunity to learn and develop key skills that employers regard as important and helps you to decide on your career.
Virtual work experience programmes share many similarities with traditional in-person internships, but their online nature allows students to gain invaluable experience and boost their CV from anywhere across the globe. Virtual work experience programmes include:
Forage
Forage is an online platform providing free open access to virtual experience programmes with world leading companies. The virtual experience programmes (created by companies like JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Accenture, BCG and Deloitte) let you sample ‘life-like’ tasks that provide a better understanding of what it is like to be a junior employee at that company. They take five to six hours to complete and are self-paced.
Springpod
Springpod offer free, interactive and high-quality virtual work experience programmes for first year undergraduate students in the most sought after industries. You must be aged 14-19 years old and live in the UK to apply.
Bright Network
Bright Network is a free e-learning platform, full of expert advice to help you prepare for the world of work and stand out on graduate applications. They also run virtual work experience programmes providing an opportunity to experience different business topics and undertake sector specific skills-based training activities.
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