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What Counts as Work Experience on a UK CV?
A precise guide to describing employment, placements, volunteering and practical projects without weakening your credibility.
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The journal for experience that stands up
Your experience deserves
to be believed
Thoughtful guidance for graduates and career changers who want to describe practical work with clarity, confidence and proof.
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The art of being specific
A career story is built in the details.
Dates remembered. Tasks explained. Feedback recorded. The small, factual things are what turn an experience into something another person can understand and trust.
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The reading room · Twelve essential guides
Practical intelligence
for your next move.
Career evidence
How to Record Evidence During a Work Placement
A practical evidence log for turning day-to-day placement tasks into credible CV and interview examples.
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Training, Placement and Employment: The Differences
Understand what each stage offers, what it does not promise and what to check before joining a programme.
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How Employers Verify Practical Experience
Prepare for date checks, references, portfolio review and detailed competency questions.
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A Graduate's Placement Evidence Checklist
A before, during and after checklist for collecting useful evidence while respecting confidentiality.
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How to Build a Work Sample Portfolio Without Breaking Confidentiality
A practical UK guide to presenting credible work samples while protecting client, employer and placement information.
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How to Explain a Career Gap With Evidence, Not Excuses
A practical framework for explaining a career gap accurately and showing credible evidence of development and current readiness.
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What Employers Look for in Graduate Work Samples
How to choose, explain and present graduate work samples that demonstrate relevance, judgement and professional care.
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How Placement References Work and What They Can Verify
What to confirm before a placement ends and how to describe future verification without overstating what a reference proves.
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How to Turn a Course Project Into Credible CV Evidence
A step-by-step guide to converting assessed learning into accurate, useful and interview-ready evidence.
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Questions to Ask a Training Provider Before You Enrol
A structured set of questions that separates verifiable programme facts from marketing language before you commit money or time.
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How UK Employers Check References
What reference checks usually involve, what referees can and cannot say, and how to prepare accurate details before an offer.
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Honest, useful, exact
Accuracy is not modesty.
It is strategy.
Training, projects, placements and paid employment can all be valuable. They do not become more valuable when they are mislabelled.
Specific evidence gives an employer something far more useful than hype: a reason to believe you.