Work Experience

Conor108 · 07-10-2007 1:01am

Aw jesus! I have to do this again in January! Remind me to get it organized the DAY I get the dates!

Conor108 · 07-10-2007 10:44pm

bumpy

Ok can anyone give me a reason for why I want to work in a shop that doesn't include 'Because the damn deadlines soon!'?

straight_As · 08-10-2007 5:38pm

Help!
I'm seriously screwed. I want do a week of my work experience in a finacial institution but everywhere I ask is already full.
I already have a week in the Mater, but I want to check other options to try and decide what career path to follow. At the moment I'm stuck between pursuing a degree in actuarial and financial studies and medicine.
Please help!

waheyyy · 08-10-2007 5:42pm

straight_As wrote:

At the moment I'm stuck between pursuing a degree in actuarial and financial studies and medicine.

woot exact same for me!! I got one week experience with an actuarial firm already, just need to get into some medicinial field now... where are you from? if your from cork i might be able to help you out with the actuary thing

straight_As · 10-10-2007 5:40pm

waheyyy wrote:

woot exact same for me!! I got one week experience with an actuarial firm already, just need to get into some medicinial field now... where are you from? if your from cork i might be able to help you out with the actuary thing

Thanks for the offer but unfortunately I'm from Dublin. I didn't know that there were actually specific actuarial firms, I guess I always thought they were subdivisions of insuarace companies.

jb91 · 13-10-2007 3:19am

From 12 letters/emails that I sent last week I haven't had a single reply. I'd rather just get a one word email saying "NO!" than absolutely nothing!!!

kronnn · 13-10-2007 6:17pm

Google DEFINITELY dont give work experiance placements. I my cousins friend works there and asked and was told no and my friends aunt who is head of marketing asked the Human Resources department but was told no. So no point in evin trying really. So does anybody know another company that is in the same area as google that might take me on.

jb91 · 13-10-2007 10:46pm

Has anyone managed to get work experience through letters & emails? I sent 12 and only got 2 replies, both nos.

highlydebased · 13-10-2007 10:48pm

Ebay possibly?

Letters seem a waste of time. For the april placement im either gonna ring places or call into them...

jb91 · 13-10-2007 10:50pm

Neon-Circles wrote: »

Ebay possibly?

Letters seem a waste of time. For the april placement im either gonna ring places or call into them...

I don't even have the 2 weeks before Christmas yet. Newsrooms are the only places I really want to go but no one's replying!

cas91 · 13-10-2007 10:51pm

by newsrooms do u mean newspaper?? or like televisoin/ radio??

jb91 · 13-10-2007 10:56pm

cas91 wrote: »

by newsrooms do u mean newspaper?? or like televisoin/ radio??

Either really

highlydebased · 13-10-2007 11:01pm

I tried all the newspapers etc in Limerick. NO replies whatsoever from ANY of them!

jb91 · 13-10-2007 11:05pm

I posted the letters last Friday... And I wrote to every good paper in Dublin and Wicklow

WoollyRedHat · 14-10-2007 3:46pm

So where are you doing your work experience?

I'm doing mine in Ardmore.

jb91 · 14-10-2007 5:12pm

There are already 2 or 3 threads about more or less the same topic

highlydebased · 14-10-2007 6:36pm

Suggest merging of all work experience threads....lol

Conor108 · 14-10-2007 8:03pm

Happened to me too! Ended up calling into a place that I had a small interest in and got it.

villadonn · 15-10-2007 7:00pm

looking for something in media but not realy sure where to go any reccomendations

jb91 · 17-10-2007 4:57pm

villadonn wrote: »

looking for something in media but not realy sure where to go any reccomendations

I'm the same. Don't bother with letters and emails because I've had hardly any replies.

vespahead · 24-10-2007 10:37pm

ye just wondering is how other people are feeling about there work experience

im in virgin in blanch nd i think its dedli a fair bit of work but its well gud ye get ta bang on a few tunes nd get on wit it,geuss it helps dat evry one in theres sound as well

SligoBrewer · 25-10-2007 2:37pm

vespahead wrote: »

ye just wondering is how other people are feeling about there work experience

im in virgin in blanch nd i think its dedli a fair bit of work but its well gud ye get ta bang on a few tunes nd get on wit it,geuss it helps dat evry one in theres sound as well

Ah holey moley, that post was harder to decrypt than hieroglyphics!

Conor108 · 25-10-2007 7:40pm

Yep its good im done tomorrow:D

qwertplaywert · 25-10-2007 8:52pm

Have to give details to ty cord-ordinater about what we're doing tomorrow[Our first week is the 19th to the 23th]. Have applied loadsa places,no luck though- Gonna take the day off tomorrow and spent the day sorting it out!

jb91 · 26-10-2007 3:23pm

qwertplaywert wrote: »

Have to give details to ty cord-ordinater about what we're doing tomorrow[Our first week is the 19th to the 23th]. Have applied loadsa places,no luck though- Gonna take the day off tomorrow and spent the day sorting it out!

Don't bother with letters and emails. I sent 15 and only got 2 replies, both nos.

qwertplaywert · 26-10-2007 10:30pm

I didn't sent either. I rang up about 10 places, narrowed it down to iQon, The Library, Dundalk Shipyard[office],My dads Solicitor's office and Xerox.

highlydebased · 26-10-2007 10:36pm

Best to ring places......forget emailing and letters in my opinion

Going to a newspaper office for 2 weeks straight after mid term. Hours are good (Wont post here just in case they get into the wrong hands lol)

FranchisePlayer · 27-10-2007 8:35pm

Already did mine this week in a I.T place down in wexford fair bit of a journey as I live in CO.Carlow(More closer to Kilkenny really:p) but defo worth it. leartnt loads of **** lucky to get in there our server in school by this company and hence it was easy to get the job:D:D

blubloblu · 28-10-2007 6:47pm

google definitely don't give work experience, it's because of security apparently, you need a swipe card and clearance to go anywhere, sign affidavits if you're visiting, they really don't want any secrets being leaked.

blubloblu · 29-10-2007 12:04pm

Well, that's what they told me...

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