internship
the jobs that someone has had, or the type of work they have done, in the past:
Despite advanced degrees and years of work experience, women are still under-represented in the higher echelons of business.
Applicants with few marketable skills and little work experience struggle in today's job market.
practical/relevant/valuable work experience

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work experience
Given the number of employees in these work teams, this was clearly the normal workexperience for an employee of the priory.
Advances in the mass long-distance travel market and telecommunications underpin the accelerating globalisation of workexperience, vacations and, potentially, retirement residence.
Shunning retirement : workexperience of men in their seventies and early eighties.
The aim of these measures was to provide the unemployed with workexperience and training in the regular labour market.
Nearly half the foster parents we recruited were already licensed and had previous workexperience.
Thus, the difference in employment status and workexperience is partially responsible for the gender gap in political participation.
Students are still in their learning stage and generally have limited workexperience.
An additional month's wage was accorded for each additional year of workexperience.
As a result, early workexperience could inter fere with adequate preparation for adulthood.
Still, because mental health tends to be stable over time, the earlier conditioning effects of teenage workexperience are likely to have long-lasting positive sequelae.
These are, thus, work creation not workexperience programmes, and effectively these workers are paid employees, not volunteers.
As has been demonstrated, workexperience has a modest impact on political participation and its influence seems to vary between men and women.
Information on interviewees that have been quoted verbatim - gender, age, education and workexperience: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
For a given level of workexperience, an employee's propensity to stay rises by nearly 50 % between ages 25 and 45.
Contributions and fund accumulations are based on estimated annual earnings and workexperience for each age-education-gender cell.
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