One of our sixth form students recently completed a long term
work experience placement at the school and two year 9 students were recently involved in an author visit day.
Of those with links to secondary schools, 80 % are involved in delivering careers advice and talks, while almost as many (78 %)
offer work experience placements.
Don't just provide examples from your time at university, though; use other relevant examples
from work experience placements, volunteering and other extra-curricular activities.
The move, which was brokered by legal diversity campaigning group Aspiring Solicitors, will see the bank run two one -
week work experience placements for students from socio - economic groups under - represented in the legal profession.
A full - time university degree has its advantages if your child is unsure of his or her career direction and wants the opportunity to explore different potential paths
through work experience placements and extracurricular activities.
We found that 14 per cent reported that their school did not
provide work experience placements for pupils, and when schools were doing work experience, nearly half (49 %) said that their school found it difficult to find placements for their pupils.
Many firms and chambers offer
short work experience placements for students in year 12 such as Pinsent Masons, Royds Withy King, BLP, Foot Anstey, Old Square Chambers, Matrix Chambers, and the list goes on.
Forty - two per cent of staff in schools in areas of high deprivation revealed that they did not offer
enough work experience placements, in comparison to the 58 per cent that stated they did.
The last day culminated with interview skills and mock interviews hosted by the volunteers, from which at least 5 students will be chosen to take part in
work experience placements with Canal & River Trust during the school holidays.
The survey also found half of those living in the South East (45 %) and London (49 %) said that they completed two or
more work experience placements, higher than those in the North of England (37 %).
Social mobility in particular is such an important issue as young people trying to qualify face enormous hurdles including student debt, unpaid or low
income work experience placements, and fewer legal aid firms offering training contracts.»
While shadowing a journalist with a national newspaper, or a senior lawyer with a city firm provides a
good work experience placement, for an application process, the jobs that you held to generate income during student years hold a great deal of value, too.
Short - term
work experience placements take place throughout the year so application dates are typically less fixed than those for industrial placements or summer internships, which are usually at the same time each year.
Retail work experience: Industrial placements Internships and summer placements Short - term
work experience placements What work experience do you need for different retail graduate jobs?
Every year we offer 35 - 40 Summer Vacation and 20 - 25
Supervised Work Experience placements, where you will develop invaluable experience in civil engineering, quantity surveying and geotechnical Engineering based at on one of our challenging projects.
Read Making Work Experience Work, Top Tips for Employers and our Work Experience Placements that Work guide to find out how you can implement high
quality work experience placements.
If it's that you lacked experience or your skills weren't relevant enough, then do some research
on work experience placements, internships, and volunteering opportunities that are relevant to your career path.
Work experience placements in a variety of roles within the sector - as well as the opportunity to study for a recognised qualification - are offered by The Advanced Apprenticeship Programme in Digital and Creative Media, developed by Creative Skillset.
Discussions around this issue have resulted in schemes such as PRIME — a social mobility initiative launched by 23 major law firms in September last year, which will see participating firms provide an annual number
of work experience placements to eligible students that is equivalent to 50 % of their trainee intake.
What's more, voluntary work is generally easier to get than other work experience because it requires you to have fewer existing skills and the application processes are much less competitive than for paid work or
formal work experience placements.