Clocking up the hours on work experience can lead to a dream job, as students at Brighton Journalist Works discovered today.
Euan Ferguson is now Deputy Chief Sub Editor at Time Out Magazine after leaving behind a business running a bar in Edinburgh. He joined the fast-track Diploma in Journalism course in 2008: “Within two weeks I realised I’d made the right decision, and it means a lot for me to be back here”, he tells us.
After graduation, Euan secured five work placements on publications ranging from The Observer to The Luton Herald. “Broaden your horizons as much as possible”, he says.
Euan delivers priceless advice on how to make work experience count: know your publication inside out, arrive with ideas and treat it like an extended job interview. “If editors remember you it’s a huge advantage”, he says.
Euan offers an insight into subbing, telling us although subs at Time Out are expected to write to a publishable standard, being meticulous comes first.
Having seen many work experience students come and go, his closing advice is to network at your publication. “Make the tea, it breaks the ice. The students who stand out are those who got to know people”.
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