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Thanks for the tip, I have just now contacted JSPC. I have had DBS check done before, it did not seem too hard on paper work and only costed around 100 pound, I could always offer to pay it my self.

I suppose there are no valid arguments that I can offer to your logic... So I am convinced that my approach might be the wrong one, as such I'd like to accept the kind offer to have my CV looked over. How would it be best to contact you then?

Thanks to all of you, I will keep an eye on all of those websites. I have contacted Class Technology in the past and have applied for that position in Worthing area that had no dates, I did not hear back from them and saw the dvertisement reposted, so I am just assuming they did not get the enough applicants. I have also contacted a great number of schools, for some reason its always a problem as its hard to determine who to contact exactly, I would contact the secretary, then if I get details the technicians and then HR. And an issue that comes up is that its not simple manual labour work, people are afraid that if they get some one to do work experience and person makes mistake, they will end up paying. As far as the job websites go, I do use them, pretty much all in that list come up during google search, as well as government websites. The volunteer websites is some thing else though, so far I could not find anything I wanted to do on them, most of it is teaching people how to use computers. I would like to do some thing with infrastructure and if possible 5 days a week, even if most of the time I am doing some thing trivial at least I get to observe a lot of it. edit. Oh and no, the ultimate aim at the moment is not to get in to a paid employment. I am in position that allows me to not rush in to first job that offers money, I am only apply to jobs I actually want to do, on-site technician, schools mostly. I am avoiding 1st line phone only jobs or computer reselling. I understand that I can not expect to just pick the job I want and go for it with out having the expertise, but if it takes 5 months working for free, spending my money for travel, or if I get lucky find a really basic junior role that might last 2 years... I am willing to do it. I do not want to start big, but at least start in the correct area.

That is a very kind offer, thank you. I might take you up on that at some point in the future. At the moment though I'd love to focus on finding some work experience. Maybe some one could provide me with some websites or are aware of some companies/schools I could contact to see if they would consider taking on some one to do work experience? Any kind of point in a right direction would be really appreciated.

Thank you very much, but for now I am pretty happy with my CV.

Hello, I hope I am posting in the correct section, I understand this is more for advertising a vacancy but I could not find a more relevant subforum. I have been using this website for a while now but only now subscribed to create a thread in hopes of finding an opportunity to volunteer and gain some valuable work experience. I have graduated from computing HND with 4 distinctions and 3 merits making me over qualified for government sponsored apprenticeships. And I have also already done some work experience during college, working 1 day a week for 9 months in a school as a junior IT technician. However even in most basic entry level positions I find my self competing with people who posses more experience then I had accumulated. I also got a windows server 2008 with some clients on Oracle Virtualbox at home so I can practise how to deploy MSI packages over group policies, or how to do remote support with Mstsc and other low end server management. At the moment I am currently available up to 5 days a week, I do not expect to be given much control over the network as I understand that could leave people above me liable for my actions and I am happy with 1st line support duties. I am not sure if I should post my CV here publicly so I suppose I can give it on request and answer any questions there might be.