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Many job opportunities favour candidates that have got experience in that field or within one that is very similar.

Some courses within the medical industry will ask that you have some sort of experience before you start. This may be the case for nurses, midwives or doctors, but how are you able to get experience? Often no one will give you work if you don’t have experience but without a job you have no way of gaining the experience you need – this can leave you in a very difficult situation.  

If you need to gain experience but cannot get a job that fits in with your learning then you may need to take time out of education and find work for 6 months to a year. If the issue is that no one will offer you the work without experience or qualifications then you may need to look in to doing volunteering work in a similar industry. It may be that you can help out in a hospital or a hospice or even a care home for a few months to get some experience to take you forward.

When looking for voluntary work in the medical industry you may find there are very few jobs you can do often due to patient confidentiality and patient care. Asking the advice of a careers advisors is always a good place to start if you find that you are coming up against barriers.