Work Experience

cooldude255220

Hello, I will be going into year ten next year and I will be doing work experience. I am wondering if anyone could tell me what company's let you do work experience and if you could post your tales of work experience.
Thanks:j

Simon11

It depends what you want to do!

First advice is to arrange your own work experience, otherwise you'll be in the local shops ect where it would be rather boring!

I did my work experience with London Underground. I got it organised through a friend my mom knew who worked for them. I really enjoyed it, spending time with different departments, but best was being in the front with the driver

First find out what you want to do. Then see if you know any contacts who work in a business like that, or ask parents if they know anyone, ask neighbours ect

Its very unlikely that if you just write an e-mail to a random company, that they will give you some work exp.

Another suggestion is working at a pool. If you are sporty type and looking to get a part time job. I'd def recomend doing that. As a lifeguard, I've worked with lots of work experience people, and some have done a really good job and been offered part time work when they become 16 and qualifed.

cooldude255220

Thanks, I'm a bit unsure what I want to do at the minute. I think I want to be a lawyer, but I don't know.:huh::think:
Thanks for your reply:beer:

Lokolo

Where do you live also?

McKneff

First of all, what do you like doing?

physical work, building gardening etc.

Desk job, office,

Decide and then ring around different companies,
initiative goes down very well with prospective employers, trainers.

cooldude255220

Lokolo wrote: »

Where do you live also?

Doncaster

McKneff wrote: »

First of all, what do you like doing?

physical work, building gardening etc.

Desk job, office,

Decide and then ring around different companies,
initiative goes down very well with prospective employers, trainers.

Anything really:o
Thanks for your advice.
Does anyone know if CEX do work experience?

Fang_3

cooldude255220 wrote: »

Doncaster


Anything really:o
Thanks for your advice.
Does anyone know if CEX do work experience?

You would have to ring and ask them. My advice would be to think ahead and not necessarily choose somewhere based on what you might do in the future, but perhaps something that you could do part time at college to get some extra money.

pandora205

If you are interested in law you may be able to volunteer at your local magistrates court. From the link here it seems they do work experience for students so you may be lucky:
https://intranet.londonmet.ac.uk/studentservices/careers/experience-matters/career-options/alternative-jobs/court-work.cfm

At your age my son had a great work experience placement at the Institute of Chartered Accountants, who took it very seriously and gave placements for a couple of days in each of the departments. He was even paid £40 at the end and had a great time at a university careers fair handing out publicity materials.

cooldude255220

pandora205 wrote: »

If you are interested in law you may be able to volunteer at your local magistrates court. From the link here it seems they do work experience for students so you may be lucky:
https://intranet.londonmet.ac.uk/studentservices/careers/experience-matters/career-options/alternative-jobs/court-work.cfm

At your age my son had a great work experience placement at the Institute of Chartered Accountants, who took it very seriously and gave placements for a couple of days in each of the departments. He was even paid £40 at the end and had a great time at a university careers fair handing out publicity materials.

Thanks for the link, I will check this out. :beer:

fuzzybear01

A couple of people did work experience at a Bank and were both able to get temporary jobs there while in sixth form

devildog

More often than not the school you are attending will already have an established list of companies/employers that have/are prepared to take on work experience students.