Experience Can't Always Come After the Job.
One of the greatest challenges facing emerging talent is being asked to demonstrate experience before being given the opportunity to gain it. Novara Experience Labs are designed to help address that gap.
Three Levels of Experience
Practice
Structured projects and simulated professional briefs allow learners to practise applying their skills before working with external organisations.
Real-World Experience
Where appropriate, learners work on real briefs and projects under Novara supervision, developing experience with deadlines, feedback, teamwork, stakeholder expectations and professional standards.
Paid Opportunities
As learners develop sufficient capability, they may be able to compete for paid gigs, internships, learnerships, contract assignments or other compensated work where available. These opportunities are not guaranteed.
Availability of paid opportunities depends on projects, partners and learner readiness and is not guaranteed.
From Practice to Professional Work
Learners move through increasingly realistic professional work as their capability grows.
- 01Learning Projects
- 02Simulated Professional Briefs
- 03Experience Labs
- 04Real Client Projects
- 05Potential Paid Gigs Where Available
- 06Workplace Opportunities
Pathways That Work Together
- Brief
A Business Challenge
An organisation brings a suitable digital or operational need.
- Pathways
Multidisciplinary Delivery
Software learners build while Project & Operations learners plan, coordinate and report.
- Portfolio
Evidence of Capability
The work creates feedback, experience and credible portfolio evidence.
Together, learners gain experience working in a multidisciplinary delivery environment.
Give Emerging Talent Something Real to Solve.
Businesses, nonprofits and other organisations may submit appropriate project briefs for consideration within Novara Experience Labs.
Potential Project Types
- Digital solutions
- Websites / simple applications
- Internal workflow projects
- Research and documentation
- Project coordination
- Process support
- Appropriate operational projects
Submitting a brief does not guarantee acceptance. Each brief is reviewed for suitability, scope, supervision requirements and learner readiness.