Noun
Professional experience.
The applicant had impressive grades, but no relevant work experience.
Synonym: occupational experience
(UK) A short unpaid period of time at a workplace, to gain experience of a working environment.
Synonym: internship
And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree. Donald Norman
I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what their faith experience has been, their education, their work experience. All of those are factors that voters look at because they want to take a measure of the individual. Michele Bachmann
When I was at school studying biology, I wanted to be a medical researcher. I did work experience at St Mary's Hospital in London, and I begged them to let me see the post mortems. So the first time I saw a naked male was at 15, when I saw an 89 year old man who had died of a brain hemorrhage. Katherine Parkinson
When I fell into modeling, because I wanted to work in fashion. I wanted to do styling or make-up. I ended getting picked up to be a model instead during my work experience. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley