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Work experience means spending time in a real workplace, working alongside other employees and learning about the tasks involved in a particular job or business. It can give you a chance to:

 

• Gain hands-on skills that employers will value.

 

• Find out more about an area of work you are interested in and provide you with an insight that will help you to make the right decisions about your career.

 

• Find out what you want to do or not, work experience can offer some offer some enlightenment on terms of revealing the right career path for you.

 

• Get an idea of what it’s really like in a workplace.

 

• See what kind of qualifications and skills you might need for your chosen career.

 

• Improve your practical skills and confidence.

 

• Demonstrate your skills to employers.

 

• To see if you are a good communicator and work well in a team.

 

• To see if you enjoyed the work as much as you expected.

 

 

Where will your work experience placement be?
 

With quality work experience placements with local employers.

 

Ideally the placement will  be  with  an employer that can provide you with  experience  in  your  desired  career  choice.    However  you  may need to flexible about the type of work you would like to do. You can  get  valuable  experience  from  doing  a  range  of  different  jobs, although they might not be your ideal career choice. For example, if you want  to work towards a career in IT, you could gain experience of using  computers  by  doing  administration  work  or  using  a computerised  till  in  a  shop.  General  skills  like  team  work, communication,  and  problem  solving  and  customer  service  are needed in almost any job.