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Develop Your Experience
Unpaid placements or shadowing someone already in the job would be an ideal way of getting experience.

Involved In a Sports Club Or Society?
Many of the skills required in HR can be found in roles in student or sports activities; managing a team, looking after finances, setting and sticking to a budget are all good ways of demonstrating your abilities.

Refine your CV or application details - working out which skills you have learnt that are relevant to the job you want.

Make Use Of Those Long Holidays
Contact Employment Agencies in your area and be prepared to do some temporary work in an office, preferably in an administration role, as this could help you to learn relevant skills. If you can get a placement in an HR department then you'll be in the ideal place to observe how the organisation relates to its employees and they may offer you a job on graduation!

If you end up in another department, ask to talk to a representative in HR during or at the end of your time there.

After Graduation
You may decide to apply for a graduate training scheme when you leave university. You can join a generic graduate scheme where you’ll gain experience of a range of different departments that includes HR.

Some programmes are focused specifically on HR. If you choose an HR programme, you may have the opportunity to study a CIPD-approved postgraduate-level qualification.

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