Many students and aspiring professionals I come across express concerns about work experience.
Most of the learning we experience at the work place is also due to our interacting and imagineering with knowledge sources (including people). What one claims as one's own experience is quite limited compared to the vast experience one assimilates and gathers belonging to the community of knowledge sources.
There are a number of knowledge resources such as books, industry magazines and periodicals, blogs, wikis and several social media tools, open source products and communities to learn from and experiment with. Tapping into these resources and using them to the best of one's capacity can be a very rewarding experience.
Viewing the cases from magazines such as cio.com, eweek.com, baseline.com, computerworld.com as stories of the industry, building upon the stories and resolving their problems as if they are one's own is one of the best ways of learning and gaining experience.
