work experience
Americannoun
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He called for work experience to be mandatory for over 16s.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
Meanwhile, he helped start a campus group to help classmates to get networking and unpaid work experience on projects for nonprofits and small businesses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026
"I want to work with business to make sure young people get a chance of work experience, training, a job - anything but leaving education and going onto a life of benefits."
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
“Translate what they’re doing in their classrooms, in cocurricular activities, into a skills-based language” if they don’t have much work experience.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
In grade ten we had to do a week of work experience, to see what life was like in the adult world.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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