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What are the benefits to the Employer? Work experience provides a number of opportunities to both the young person and the employer.  It can help to: Influence the quality of future employees. Enhance induction programmes for new staff. Reinforce good health and safety practice. Raise the community profile of an organisation. Below are some comments from employers who assisted us last year: “It gives us an insight into youth ideals, and the potential to spot future full and part time staff.” “We have found that due to a lack of resources, placements have led to successful part time employment.” “Apart from an extra pair of hands, the supervising staff enjoy using their training skills and working with a young person.” “One of the ways of maintaining links with the local community.” Parents, teachers and employers feel that work experience helps pupils to make a more informed choice about their future, by highlighting the importance of developing good employability skills. For a leaflet detailing an employer's role in work experience please click here. To see the Work Experience Opportunities Form for 2010 (for companies) please click here.   If you would like to discuss how you could help with Work Experience, or would just like more information, then please email Deborah Chowney.

What's required of me as an Employer? Which types of work are suitable? How many students can be accommodated? How long will it take for the student to understand the duties and tasks involved? When is the best time for the placement?

How can you help? The offer you make to a student is up to you.  If you would like to start slowly or reduce the impact on your business (as we appreciate that it can involve your staff's time) then even one offer a year is great!  If you are able to accommodate a student each week, then we'd love to place students with you, but it is up to you.   We match place, so we look at what the student's interests and academic ability are and how they would benefit from the opportunities offered; we are also mindful of what you want from a young person and that could be that they have an interest in what you do.  Not all places offered to pupils are taken up, but please try to offer as many as you can. Work Experience is a partnership programme and it has to work for both the employer and the student to have a successful outcome. What do you do now? If you would like some more information, please click here for a leaflet which explains the employer's role in work experience. If you would like to offer a work experience opportunity, to access the Work Experience Opportunities Form for 2010 (for companies) please click here.   Alternatively, if you would like to discuss how you could help with Work Experience, or would just like more information, then please email Deborah Chowney. Companies already on our database will receive an annual mailing, detailing all the schools and the dates they are due to go out.  If you do not receive our mailings, please contact Deborah Chowney.