Experience greatly increases your opportunity for employment. Employers look for entry-level candidates to have some relevant experience. Internships (for-credit or non-credit), summer jobs, or volunteer service opportunities allow you to acquire this critical experience. Employers often offer full-time entry-level positions to their past/current interns. Some companies hire 80-90% of their interns after they graduate! Your resume may be one of a pile you should prepare yourself to stand out from the crowd!

Explore a Career
Not only does relevant work experience augment your resume (and hence, your marketability), any opportunity that gives you an inside look into a particular profession also serves to give you necessary information about whether to follow it as a career. It’s one thing to read about a field, another to shadow someone else doing it, and yet another to do it yourself! Some fields are easier to explore than others. Obviously, you can’t perform surgery to "test it out" before studying to be a surgeon, but you may be allowed to observe a surgery and experience other aspects of a profession, working environment, or lifestyle.
Networking
Your experience working at the side of other professionals in your field of interest may be stepping stones to your future. Knowing the right people can help you get to the next step. This is especially true for some of the toughest career fields to enter, such as broadcasting.

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