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Employers seek candidates who have had previous job and/or volunteer experience. Ideally, this experience would be in the health care field, but other experiences are valuable, too.

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"These were all people who committed time out of their school week to shadow and do a lot of different things. They were very interested in pursuing health careers. And one thing I noticed with this group of students is that they all had part-time jobs. Some of them started really early on, working for family members. I mean, that little entrepreneurial thing. And I know, at least there were quite a few of my friends or my children's friends who had never had a part-time job. They were never expected to work at McDonalds or anywhere and earn money even in the summer. Now, it wasn't like that at our house, but it's good just to have had that responsibility—where you had to be someplace at a certain time and then you got the satisfaction of that paycheck. But that experience seems to be lacking more. Another thing I noticed with these students that I was interviewing is that they're very motivated. They had a career path. They were very good students, and they'd all had some kind of a part-time job, whether it was at the grocery store or something else." Northeast
"If I'm an interviewer, I want to see what they've done. And I'm not expecting someone to come in having tons of experience. They're a brand new nursing assistant. They just graduated. People tend to think, well, I won't talk about that job I had at the grocery store or McDonalds. That's the kind of experience they had. If you can say, 'I worked there all these years, and I went from this level to this other level,' then it doesn't matter where that was. It's showing work ethic. It's showing they were able to balance other things while in school. And maybe they got really good grades on top of working 'x' hours a week. So, I think encouraging—starting at the high school level—some kind of a part-time job, even just during the summer months, is a good thing. Obtaining some kind of work experience while you're in school or at some point before you apply for your first professional job." Northeast
"Well, you can require that they have a part-time job or require that they have work experience before they enter a program." Northeast
"One out-of-the-box thing that we do at our hospice facility is that we have a lot of teen and young adult volunteers. And I know our local high school requires their seniors do 30 hours of community service in order to graduate. And we have a lot of med students and nursing students that volunteer. And I think volunteering on your resume is huge. We had a med student that volunteered for the four years he was in college. Now, that's on his resume. Wherever you're volunteering, they rely on you to show up for work, to be well-groomed, to be polite, all those things, just like holding a job but you're volunteering, so you're not getting paid for it. I think if more universities and colleges required some type of volunteering somewhere, it'd be good for everyone. If they had that expectation because it would give them pride in what they're doing." Northeast