Build experience
Find out ways to build your experience, challenge yourself and expand your skills
While work experience including part-time work is a great way to develop your skills (and you can find out more about that in Discover What’s Out There) it’s not the only sort of experience which counts! Employers are looking for people who have a breadth of interests and skills as well as a good degree.
Volunteering, activities outside your degree, and focused programmes like SAChA will all contribute to building your skills, broadening your outlook, and increasing your self-awareness.
Volunteer
Find out the many benefits of volunteering, how you can do it and where to look for opportunities.
Take part in activities
Find out about the range of activities you could consider outside your degree programme, both within the University and beyond it
Create your own opportunity
Being proactive and reaching out to employers can make useful contacts and may secure you some work experience or other opportunity.
Edinburgh Award
Take part in the Edinburgh Award to gain recognition from the University for the skills you have developed.
Students as Change Agents
Students as Change Agents is a safe 'living lab' approach for students, staff, and external partners to tackle real-life challenges and generate fresh thinking. It involves students from multiple disciplines, who want to make a social impact.
Develop your skills
Research opportunities to develop your skills further, and access training opportunities.
Insights Programme
The Insights Programme offers students the chance to benefit from graduates of the University (alumni) sharing their knowledge and experience of job sectors and workplaces.
Explore our toolkits, in the self-enrol channel on Learn (in MyEd), to learn more about how to Build Experience.