Practicum Experience: Bridging Education and Career

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Through school or even life in general, we never truly understand the purpose of what we do. Yes, we take a class to better educate ourselves but then we start to wonder if we will ever use what we learned. Thus far, this course has been different, we apply everything we have learned into our daily lives. A practicum is a real-life experience obtained through working in a health care facility while still being a student. (Makely, 2017). A practicum can range from volunteer work to internship. Through a practicum, the student can learn many different aspects of not only the work environment they want to get involved in but also what work may entail, how stressful it may be, and to see if that job is the best fit for that student. The student …show more content…

Yes, there are times where everything falls into place perfectly, or you happen to be standing next to someone at Starbucks and you start a conversation, which then leads to getting a job. We never know how we are going to get a job, but at least we know what job we want. Therefore, when job searching it is important to use the sources given via the internet. There are three different online sources that students who have graduated or those who are looking for a new job can use. One is where people can log on and via what jobs are hiring either in a category of health care or based on hospitals. Sometimes they can be position based but it is a very large spectrum in different states. When picking categories, the location can also be chosen too. Some website examples are www.careerbuilder.com/Jobs, www.monster.com, www.indeed.com and www.healthcarejobsite.com. (Makely, 2017). When first looking for jobs in the field, it is important for students to look at what may be open. Personally, I keep an eye on what communities are hiring executive directors more often than others. Although I am assuming, it may mean that they are firing executive directors a lot or that the directors are leaving. If the directors are leaving, this may be due how they are being treated or based on the upper management and how the are asking things to be done. Of course, this won’t change how I will feel towards the company or saying I won’t apply there for

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