Unpaid Work Experience

Work experience allows you to apply and contextualise your studies in a work environment and gain a competitive edge in the job market. 

Engaging in work experience will help you to gain experience in your discipline, build your professional network and develop key employability skills such as communication, and interpersonal skills.

What is unpaid work experience?

Unpaid work experience is a type of on-the-job training that is not a requirement of your studies. It allows you to enhance your learning in an organisational environment to gain a competitive edge in the job market.
By spending time in a workplace, you will discover more about workplace processes and communication, build your interpersonal skills and access a new professional network.
There are some strict conditions around unpaid work experience. These experiences need to be focused on learning and aligned to your area of study. There are also restrictions on how many days you can engage in unpaid work experience.

For more information, including UQ approval process, please review the UQ Unpaid Work Experience website.

Mandatory immunisations

For your own safety and the safety of others, you may be required to demonstrate appropriate vaccination or evidence of immunity to vaccine-preventable diseases before commencing your work experience.

Requirements will depend on the policies of the host organisation at the time of approval. Where evidence of vaccination or immunity is a mandatory requirement of the work experience host organisation, UQ will request this evidence from you through the Student Immunisation Evidence Request process.