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Volunteering: real experience for your CV

Volunteering gives you hands-on experience in real settings. It helps fill gaps on your CV, proves reliability, and gives you examples for interviews.

Why it helps

• Recent experience to add to your CV

• Strong examples to talk about at interviews

• References from people who’ve seen you work

• Useful contacts and local networks

What’s available
A range of roles across sectors so you can try work that suits you.

Next step: speak to your adviser about current roles.

Paid work programmes (real experience, real wage)

Break the “no experience, no job” cycle. Our fixed-term paid work programmes give you real workplace experience and a wage — no prior experience required.

Why it helps

• Build solid experience for your CV

• Gather real examples to use at interviews

• Try a role to see if it’s right for you

• Continuous adviser support from start to finish

Who it’s for
First-time jobseekers, returners, and anyone changing direction or stuck at the application stage.

Next step: speak to an adviser about joining a paid work programme.

Modern Apprenticeships: real experience, real progression

Break into your chosen field with paid, hands-on experience and a qualification alongside.

Why it helps

• Do real work from day one

• Build examples for your CV and interviews

• Understand how employers expect you to work

How we help

• Source suitable apprenticeship vacancies

• Check eligibility for Glasgow Guarantee roles

• Support with applications, CVs and mock interviews

• Ongoing guidance throughout your apprenticeship

Next step: talk to your adviser about current MA vacancies.