Talk:Work experience

What this article describes is not universal. Maybe it should say "In Australia (or wherever), 'work experience' means ..." Maurreen 17:56, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Deleted duplicated text. It still isn't a great article by any means. The exploitative capitalists bit is just odd and surely POV.

Compulsory in the UK
I am a student from the UK who completed a work experience placement last summer and I have been wondering when exactly it became compulsory here. Can anyone help me out? 81.152.222.220 20:42, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure when it was introduced, but I'm not sure it's compulsory. I was told last year I didn't need to go on work experience because I was studying seperate sciences, but I could still go if I wanted to. Titaniapixie (talk) 12:25, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

In Scotland atleast it is not compulsory, as we just continue normal school day if we don't go on a placement 86.138.172.119 (talk) 15:45, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Added some details...
... gleaned from working in the field. I work for this lot: www.oebp.org.uk Evilteuf (talk) 17:58, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Entry Level Employment versus Permanent Internship?
I have question about the perma-intern or permatern have on affect of entry level work experience lack work experience to gain entry level but are being forced to work as a unpaid perma-intern to gain work experience needed to agin employment? I am just wondering how affects entry level employment and work experience needed to gain employment?

Carlozo, Lou "Perma-interns: Is working for free a good career bet?" http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-money/2011/06/28/perma-interns-is-working-for-free-a-good-career-bet/

Conlin, Michelle "Intern Abuse?" http://www.businessweek.com/careers/managementiq/archives/2009/05/intern_abuse.html

Stott, Phil "How Abuse of Interns Undercuts Company Success" http://www.cnbc.com/id/36177349 Shiningmind818 (talk) 17:26, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Communist experience
In Communist countries studentst were frequently forced to do manual work to become in some way blue-collar workers. The most radical form were the deportations to villages in China during the Cultural revolution Down to the Countryside Movement, Sent-down youth. Is there an English name to such policy? It was praktyki robotnicze in Poland - neither Work experience nor real blue-collar socialisation.Xx236 (talk) 09:52, 31 May 2016 (UTC)