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What is Industrial Experience?

- An Industrial Experience is a hands on experience into a profession or professions you would like to work in, it helps give one a good look at how the business place of your choice runs and operates, it usually starts by communicating with firms and businesses already in the industry and in this day and age it isn't very difficult to contact any body.

- Industrial Experiences come in all different kinds of shapes and sizes, for instance you can do short term placements last two weeks or so and you can also take longer placements lasting a year or so, these are knows as internships and most likely found in Degree programmes.

- An industrial experience can often give you a better relationship with certain companies, although you may not want to continue at some, offers may appear in the form of jobs from other you enjoy.

- Industrial Experiences can often show you a certain area that you wouldn't like to work in, they can also be beneficial in helping you make the right decision about a job.

What can you learn from and Industrial Experience?

- You get the chance to explore a job opportunity openly and discuss with colleges from the business their view on the industry and pros/cons of their job.

- Industrial experience gives you an actual feel for the practice, showing the pace and standard a graphic design firm keeps up.

- If you set yourself a good wide range of places to visit it could help define exactly what area you would like to focus your own career on

- Going into a firm for a week or two on your own can seem daunting but you have the chance to be tutored almost one on one for that time, free to ask any questions and explore any part of the facilities and come back having learnt a lot more.

What Format could Industrial Experience?

- A studio visit can be classed as industry experience, last week we attended a college visit to 'Target Print' in leeds a print company that arranged for us to go down have a look, we spent around 2 hours there and i feel it benefitted me a lot, i came away with much more knowledge of print processes than i would have just by reading and finding facts about it.

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