# Placements & work experience

**Source**: https://sheffield.ac.uk/careers/support/experience
**Parent**: https://sheffield.ac.uk/careers

Gaining work experience during your degree can take many forms. Here are some of the opportunities open to you.

[Types of work experience](https://sheffield.ac.uk/careers/support/experience/types)

[Placement year (students only)](https://students.sheffield.ac.uk/careers/experience/placements)

## Internships

Internships are extracurricular work opportunities that can be done alongside your study programme.

[Internships (students only)](https://students.sheffield.ac.uk/careers/experience/internships)

## Virtual work experience

Flexible programmes that have been developed by graduate employers to mirror work within their organisation.

[Virtual work experience programmes](https://sheffield.ac.uk/careers/support/experience/virtual "Virtual work experience programmes")

## Volunteering

All work experience will be valuable in your search for employment, whether it is a paid placement or internship, or an unpaid volunteering opportunity.

[Volunteering & unpaid work experience](https://sheffield.ac.uk/careers/support/experience/volunteering "Volunteering")

[International work experience](https://sheffield.ac.uk/careers/support/location/international-opportunities)

[Study abroad](https://sheffield.ac.uk/globalopps/outbound/study-abroad/application-information)