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Work experience

Term

Work experience

Definition

Knowledge, skills and competences acquired by an individual during their working life.
This term is also used to describe short periods of work-based learning (commonly carried out while the individual is participating in a related education or training programme) or working as a trainee or intern in order to gain experience of a particular occupation or type of work.

Comment

It is important to distinguish the two common meanings of this term.
See ‘Work-based learning’

Source

Career Guidance and Counselling Glossary. Result of Leonardo da Vinci programme project “Overcoming Intercultural and Linguistic Barriers in Continuously Accessible Vocational Guidance and Counselling” (project No LT/03/B/F/LA-171023). Available from Internet: http://glossary.ambernet.lt/main.php?lang=eng#

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Work-based learning

Term

Work-based learning

Definition

Acquisition of knowledge and skills through carrying out – and reflecting on – tasks in a vocational context, usually in the workplace.

Comment

The accreditation of work-based learning is often linked to lifelong guidance activities.

Source

Cedefop (2011). Glossary: Quality in education and training. Luxembourg: Publications Office. Available from Internet: http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/Files/4106_en.pdf

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ELGPN Glossary, competences, work-based learning, knowledge, vocational skills