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Frequently Asked Questions -
Applicants
The following information is designed
to answer the most commonly asked questions about work
experience and internship programmes.
What are work experience and
internship programmes?
Work experience and internship
programmes are essentially the same. They provide
applicants and other participants the opportunity to
work in a company for between four weeks and six months,
applying the knowledge and experience they have already
gained from their studies and other previous work, get
new ideas and enhance this through on-the-job training
and learning.
What vocational sectors are available?
It does not matter what you are
studying, you can benefit from undertaking a work
experience and internship programme!
Happy Kids is able to find work
placements for most general sectors (such as marketing,
finance, administration, management etc) within six
weeks. More specialist sectors (such as law, teaching,
medicine and sciences such as geology, chemistry and
physics) may take a little longer (up to 12 weeks).
What payment can I expect for working
in the company?
Work experience and internship
placements are not paid positions! Because they are
designed to compliment your studies and enhance your CV,
they are considered as vocational training positions.
The company that employs you will help you develop your
knowledge, skills and experience, which in itself is
quite rewarding with regard to your CV and future career.
What will I gain from doing a work
experience or internship programme?
Work experience is becoming
increasingly vital in applicants' personal and career
development. It enables you to show that
You can transfer your academic
learning into the workplace;
You have the skills and qualities
that employers are looking for.
The benefits of work experience for
you include the following:
Opportunity to put the theory you
have learnt into practice;
Opportunity to learn about and
compare workplace cultures;
Opportunity to develop the skills
and qualities that employers are looking for;
Support with career choice,
strategies and contacts in the rapidly changing
working world;
Improved prospects of both
employment and higher earnings;
Living and working in another
culture.
What sort of work will I do in the
company?
The kind of work you will do will be
very much depending on your own interests, knowledge,
experience and enthusiasm.
Typically, participants start with
basic tasks supporting people already employed in the
company, and, as their experience and confidence grows,
their work placement supervisors will increase the
complexity of the tasks and their level of
responsibility.
What sort of placement can I expect?
Happy Kids will find you a work
placement based on the information you give us.
Therefore, when considering the type
of placement you would like to undertake, you should
contemplate your own knowledge and skills and define
your work placement requirements that best matches these.
To give you an example, if you are
studying accounting at university, there is no point in
you asking for a work placement in website design (believe
me, some people do!).
What will my hours of work be?
When working within a Turkish company,
you will be expected to work the same hours as the other
employees in the company.
In the Turkey, people typically work a
40-hour week, which includes breaks. Hours of work are
generally between 09.00 and 17.00, Monday to Friday.
However, it is important that you recognise that if the
company is open on Saturdays or Sundays, you may be
expected to work then, too, and have your days off
during the week.
If we have not been able to answer all
of your questions, you can use one or more of the
following ways to ask us something else and we will do
our best to come back to you with answers as soon as
possible.
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