How Do You Get Paid Doing Unpaid Work Experience – Perth Resume Writers

Hi This is Sal from Oz Resumes. Thank you for dropping my blog again.

Here are a few quick tips by our Perth Resume Writers and Job Recruitment Agencies on How to Get Paid while doing Unpaid Work Experience.

Transcript of the video down below:

Hi, this is Sal from Oz Resumes. Thank you again for watching this video, I really appreciate your time.

So I got a couple of questions that was asked to me because I recommend people do work experience and work for free, and some people have been messaging me, asking me questions, Oh, Sal, how do you work for free and also not get paid? I mean, it’s not practical, you know, I want to get paid.

I said, true, but you need to have experience, you need to put something on your resume, so here’s what you do when you are doing work experience for free but still want to be practical and earn a living: Get another job that pays, and when I say that, here’s a real-life scenario of how things work.

One of my friends that I was helping out early in the day, engineer, and he’s working security, and the other days he was doing two days’ work experience, like working for free in an engineering firm, so because of that two days he basically put that company as his work experience and kept on applying while he was working security the other three or four days, so he kept himself in a practical situation where he could still survive and money by working security on the four days or three days, if I’m not wrong, and the other two days he worked for free for this engineering firm, and then after that what he did was he kept applying for jobs while doing that for about a month or two, and because of that work experience, the two days that he sacrificed to work for free and worked with security the rest of the week, keeping himself afloat financially, you know, he got interviews and calls and offers, so what you want to do is obviously be practical, obviously you want to work in your profession if you can get a paid job, that’s great, but if you can’t, you need to put something there with experience, to do work experience for free. Another example is for me, myself, and my wife when I was here, I’m an international student so I didn’t have any accounting experience.

My wife, she’s an engineer, but she didn’t have any Australian accounting experience, so what we did was I was the guy that was working security just to make ends meet every day, spit shoes, so we could pay the rent food and all that jazz while she did work experience for an engineering firm. Then when after that within a few months she got placed in a paid engineering position because of that work experience. I needed one, decided to start myself out and get myself a job as an accountant, so that’s how you do. Be practical, obviously you want to do work experience for free, but do something else, working in Macca’s or whatever security, whatever part-time job, cleaning, to keep yourself afloat, but at least when you have work experience, it’s leverage that you can use in your resume, and it will attract more potential employers to call you for interviews.

Thanks again for watching this video. Sal from Oz Resumes, I really appreciate your time here.

 

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