The interns offered to help her with social-media marketing for free in order to gain professional work experience.

WSJ: How to Make Internships Pay Off

On top of that, Mr. Smith says, you'll gain valuable work experience by applying your know-how in a new context, and you'll make contacts that could lead to future opportunities.

WSJ: Helping Your Cause��and Your Career

We understood that women would have to gain experience, work our way up, pay our dues.

FORBES: Women's Progress: Is the Glass Half Empty? What Will It Take to Fill It?

Consider the intern who chooses to work for free to gain experience, or the writer who chooses to blog for free to build a platform.

FORBES: The Power of Choice

High-tech workers in America, who forgo big salaries to work at a start-up, gain precious experience as well as options.

ECONOMIST: The tiger and the tech

She said her main barrier when finding work and apprenticeships was her lack of experience and she hoped this course will help her to gain employment at the end of it.

BBC: Boot camp