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Posted By Charlotte Gazey
Hi all
I have recently finished a degree in Business Administration and am due to start the NEBOSH National Certificate course soon.
I am all too aware of the fact that you need experience to get a job in the Health and Safety sector.
My question to all is: How do I get my foot in the door?
I am more than willing to start from the bottom and work my way up but have no real idea where to start.
Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Charlotte
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Posted By willhiem
charlotte, its pretty hard to get your foot in any door these days, its possibly the hardest part of this job - getting started, no one wants to give anyone without experience a chance. maybe try and get a day or two a week chadowing someone for a while and learn that way and then you should find it easier to get onto the ladder!
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Posted By Baggage
As other contributors have noted getting a start is not easy,my experience was to take a job, accept the OH&S responsibilities with that job, do them to the best of your ability, learn, expand your knowledge, assist and grow your OH&S knowledge & ability in your first job.
If you demonstrate aptitude the OH&S department will notice, and you will get more involved.Above all maintain your sense of humour, I think all of us entering the profession looked long and hard for our first start, it will happen!
Good luck and keep smiling!
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Posted By MikeP
Willhiem
You suggest ( as have others) to try shadowing for a while to get experience. The problem I and many others have is that if you are working full time, when do we get the chance to shadow someone. I know for a fact my employer would not allow me time to follow our H&S consultant during normal work time.
So we get abck to the same catch 22. No experience = no job and no job to gain experience.
I am still optomisitc that I will get lucky one day though
Mike
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Posted By Charlotte Gazey
Hi
I'd just like to say thanks to all of you who have commented on my problem.
I have sent off a few letter to H&S companies local to me to see if anyone is interested in me shadowing them.
Hopefully I will get a good response.
Thanks again for your advice
Charlotte
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Posted By willhiem
Mike,
Thats totally understandable, but it was just a suggestion, i know people have their own jobs to worry about but maybe one could even shadow a H & S person on saturdays if it were possible, a month or two at that and it may help. it is hard to get a foot in the door i've been there myself for quite sometime before i got lucky and found someone willing to take a chance, usually a place which already has a good structure and good experienced persons are more willing to take you on. best of luck with it
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