These days a degree alone does not necessarily guarantee your dream job. Getting Work Experience or completing an Internship is quickly becoming the best and most reliable way of ensuring that a job in your chosen career is well within your reach. While an honours degree is undoubtedly an impressive inclusion on a CV, relevant work experience can often be preferable to employers and give your application that extra boost.

There are many different ways of gaining and obtaining work experience. You may have horrible visions of being ordered around by a Cruella da Ville type in a style reminiscent of the first half of The Devil Wears Prada but not all internships and   will be this horrific. Most companies offering spots do so in the knowledge that it is an investment that is sure to produce valuable returns for their company and for the economy in general. So read on to find out how you can use your bit of time off to maximise your future opportunities…