A definition of Work Experience – as taken from Work Experience: a guide for secondary schools, DFES 2002.
‘A placement on employer’s premises in which a pupil carries out a particular task or duty, more or less as would an employee, but with an emphasis on the learning aspects of the experience’
Tamar EBP recognises the growing responsibilities placed upon all employers and can provide a central administrative support service offering help and advice to employers and schools throughout the year, within the work experience programme.
How can you help?
Work experience offers the students of today the opportunity to prepare for the challenges of tomorrow.
Employers are an essential element in the development and overall success within the work experience programme and can help students acquire the necessary qualities that could influence future career choices. Further work experience opportunities that are in continual demand include Interview Skills, Industry Days, Work Shadowing, Mentoring, Teacher Development, Numeracy and Literacy Practise. Further details can be obtained from your Tamar EBP/Trident representative.
What is Tamar EBP’s involvement?
Tamar EBP acts as a broker between the schools seeking placements and the companies offering them. Our organisation can assist companies to ensure that placements, which can be in short supply in particular areas, are distributed equally amongst local schools ensuring appropriate matches are made to suit the employer and student. This also avoids companies being inundated with excessive work experience requests.
What you can achieve
- Encourage staff development including management training through internal supervisory and coaching skills.
- Build and maintain links with local schools to attract school leavers and thus reduce potential recruitment costs.
- Help to identify the potential and quality of young people coming onto the labour market.
- Raise career profile opportunities within the workplace, highlighting possibilities within declining industries.
- Assist in the promotion of vocational qualifications, including specialised diplomas, through structured work experience.
- Improve company/community awareness. Work experience presents a positive image amongst students, teachers, parents and employees.
What do you do next?
Contact the Work Experience Team at Tamar EBP about the arrangements in place for your area. We will talk you through the basic procedures either on the telephone, or via a visit to your office. Thereafter, the establishment of direct contact with the school or local co-ordinating agency should follow as quickly as possible.
Contact us on: 01752 210230