Define: Work Experience

The meaning of “Work Experience” differs based on where it is used. We list many below, then combine them into one or more market-standard definitions.

How is Work Experience defined in a legal contract?

  • Work Experience means an activity without remuneration, performed at a job site, designed to nurture good work habits and basic vocational skills that increase the participant's chances of finding employment. Seen in 17 SEC filings
  • Work Experience means a work activity that equips a participant with an opportunity to gain general skills, training, knowledge, and work habits necessary to secure a job. Seen in 14 SEC filings
  • Work Experience means a paid or unpaid work activity that gives a participant an opportunity to acquire necessary skills, training, knowledge, and work habits to secure a job. Seen in 10 SEC filings
  • Work Experience means supervised training activity that provides basic job skills, enhances existing job skills related to the participant's experience or provides a needed community service, with an aim to lead to unsubsidized employment. Seen in 6 SEC filings
  • Work Experience means work activities related to soil conservation, land management, energy savings, and community improvement, benefiting human service programs, performed in public and nonprofit agencies. A participant is restricted to work up to 18 hours per week during school sessions and up to 40 hours per week during school recesses. Seen in 5 SEC filings
  • Work Experience means a part of an educational program providing a student the opportunity to participate in, observe or learn about tasks and responsibilities related to an occupation or career. Seen in 5 SEC filings

Note: The Genie AI Legal Assistant pulled this data out of the SEC EDGAR Database of 500,000 records from the past 22 years of filings. We regularly update this page as new filings and definitions come in.

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Which definition should you use?

🤔 Our AI Legal Assistant has combined and improved the above descriptions to create market-standard 'Genie definitions' below, with guidance on which documents and which industry to use for each.

Genie Definition 1

  • Work Experience means any participant-partaken activity fostering employment-related skills and habits, performed at a regulated job site, either paid or unpaid.

Relevant Contract Type

Relevant Circumstances

  • When an individual is partaking in an activity aimed to improve their employability.
  • When the work is performed at a regulated job site.
  • When the activity can either be paid or unpaid.

Relevant Sectors

Genie Definition 2

  • Work Experience means a supervised, hands-on activity within an educational curriculum, enabling students to learn workforce-specific tasks, responsibilities, and skills.

Relevant Contract Type

Relevant Circumstances

  • When the activity is part of an educational program aimed at developing workforce skills.
  • When the activity is supervised and provides hands-on experience.

Relevant Sectors

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Work Experience means any participant-partaken activity fostering employment-related skills and habits, performed at a regulated job site, either paid or unpaid

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