In this presentation I will cover… WORK EXPERIENCE 25 June to 6 July 2012

PEOPLE WHO GO TO WORK BECOME EXPERTS IN THEIR FIELD…

AND IT IS EASIEST TO BECOME AN EXPERT IF YOU CONCENTRATE ON THE SKILL AND TALENT YOU WISH TO ACQUIRE

GO TO WORK TO BE YOUR BEST SELF… AND FIND THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRY WORK OF DIFFERENT KINDS

So the first task is to find out how your ‘subject-likes’ and the things you like to do match up:

The most important time you can have spent so far is ‘chewing’ over your report with both your form teacher and your parents. Too much green and you’re too happy clappy, too much red and ‘boy you’re negative, not enough yellow and ‘really life’s not that black and white’. Get real!

Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just part of the way the world works. Douglas Adams, author of Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy ? So how does the world work ?

TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SAILOR, RICH MAN, POOR MAN, BEGGAR MAN, THIEF… TEACHER, LAWYER, PILOT, CHEMIST, DOCTOR, DENTIST,FIREMAN, PRIEST

BUILDER, BAKER, CANDLESTICK MAKER, RIDER, SINGER, DANCER, CLOWN ACTOR, AUTHOR, DRIVER, FARMER, INVENTOR, MARKSMAN, POLICEMAN, CHIEF

AT THE MOMENT, YOU CHILD ARE TREATED AS A CHILD! BETWEEN SCHOOL AND HOME WE LOOK AFTER AND NURTURE YOU IN PREVIOUS ERAS AND TODAY IN SOME CULTURES YOU WOULD BE MARRIED WITH CHILDREN SOON YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DRIVE A CAR, KNOW ANOTHER PERSON IN THE BIBLICAL SENSE AND EVEN VOTE! NOW IS THE TIME FOR YOU TO LEARN HOW TO: BE MORE INDEPENDENT CO-OPERATE WITH OTHERS COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY COMPROMISE AND NEGOTIATE USE YOUR INITIATIVE GROW UP!

University programmes and similar work-based training are being challenged to prepare students for careers that have not yet been invented; indeed, to develop students who are prepared to invent such careers.

What is Work Experience? Why do Work Experience? What will Work Experience be like? What types of placement are available? How to apply for a Work Experience placement?

‘Work Experience’ is just that… ‘experience’ of work… an Observer not Worker…

To experience and apply the skills needed in working situations: ‘employability’ and ‘enterprise capability’

To gain an understanding of what it is like to work a full- time week 9-5 pm, or finding out how a nursery operates and looks after small children, how companies use IT in a real business situation, working in a team, showing initiative etc. etc

Why do Work Experience? Understanding of the world of work See transferable skills in action Value of a good education ‘Continue with the end in mind’ Life changing………Why?

What will Work Experience be like? Full working day! Treated the same as employees – can be sacked! Unfamiliar environments – Health and Safety issues… Expected not to impact on business ‘Safe’ job roles – low skill Ambassadors for yourself - reference Ambassadors for the school

WHAT TYPES OF W.X. ARE POSSIBLE?

Easier to say what types are not: High risk Highly confidential High pressure Highly qualified Not impossible, but think laterally!

Examples of past placements

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER WORK EXPERIENCE? Your first reference – so make sure you write to the company to say thank you for the opportunity! Knowledge of 1 or 2 careers areas Confirm as careers choice Extra motivation in school to work hard for exams and qualifications Also… Discover that you don’t like the area of work experienced Need to reassess your objectives, follow up with more work experience in another field.

At the end, we’ll look at your information pack… Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

And what did Douglas Adams have to say about those of us who are older… Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

SO…LIVE THE DREAM …BE YOUR BEST SELF …AND IF YOU HAVE THE CHANCE… …GO TO WORK…

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