5 Oct 2014
Whether you spend your time making countless cups of tea or getting quality time with the animals, work experience placements will provide a invaluable insight into your future career prospects.
Whether you spend your time making countless cups of tea (trying to remember which colleague takes sugar) or getting plenty of quality time with the animals, work experience placements will provide you with an invaluable insight into your future career prospects. Image by Aniket from Pixabay
It’s the start of another academic year. With this comes the students who have struggled to get work experience to secure their place on course, and those who have waited for a training practice (TP) place to come up.
All veterinary nursing courses require the applicant to have completed a number of weeks work experience prior to starting the course.
This allows time for them to see their chosen career close-up and ensure they are making the right decision. It could also get them a contact for future work or placements – the vet world is very small.
Many practices are too busy with SVNs and vets on EMS to allow more people in to see what they do. However, throughout September, I have been tweeting about the best approach to getting VN work experience and have come up with a list. Please feel free to add to it!