Earlier this week on our blog we gave you a couple of job shadowing tips to help you get the most of and work experience opportunities you are given while you’re still in school. As we mentioned last time, job shadowing is a great way of getting inspiration for your future study and/or career options, whether in the form of making you move towards a specific working area or making you realise that you’d be happier working in an environment that’s different to the one you did your experience in.

So, without further ado, let’s have a look at our final three job shadowing tips.

First up in today’s job shadowing tips relates to getting on throughout the day. It’s likely that you’ll be given some tasks to do to keep you busy throughout the day. If you find yourself a bit unsure as to how to proceed, don’t be afraid to ask someone. They’ll appreciate your honesty and should be more than happy to clarify any questions you have to ensure the job is done properly. Be a bit careful with this though – if you find yourself wanting to ask about every single little step of your task, you’re probably worrying a bit too much about it. It’s important to remember that the others in the organisation have their own jobs to get on with too, so don’t necessarily have lots of time to spend with you going over each small detail.

Following on the previous of our job shadowing tips is what to do if you complete a set task. If you find yourself in the position where you don’t really have anything to do, it’s okay to ask whether there’s something you can help with. This shows initiative on your part, which is something that future employers and university admissions folk alike will love to see. This will also mean that you might get some interesting new jobs to do, giving you a better sense of how the organisation runs overall and perhaps providing you with the opportunity to develop some new skills.

The last of our job shadowing tips today is something that you can do when the experience is over, and this is to write down what sorts of jobs you did, what skills you think were developed or strengthened, and what you learned in general. This is not only because as time goes on you might forget some of the details, but it can also help you build your confidence and demonstrate to you how much you actually got from the job shadowing experience.