HOW DO I GET WORK EXPERIENCE?

Currently the official work experience week is in the summer term of year 12, but it is never too early to start exploring the world of work and the school holidays can be the perfect time to find some. You could: shadow someone at work to see what their job is like

• visit different workplaces

• go to work with a parent or guardian

• do a 1 or 2 week work placement

• go into a workplace for one day a week over a period of time

Medical

• BSMS Virtual Work Experience (thinkific.com)

Medical work experience

• It’s time to take control of your future | Springpod This website has work experience from some of the UK’s top companies. Some are on demand and some run at different times of the year and you need to apply.

• Dentistry - Free Online Healthcare CourseFutureLearn

Dentistry work experience via future learn

• Observe GP (rcgp.org.uk)

GP work experience

• Courses - WEX Library (yourmedicfamily.org)

Medical work experience

• Live Virtual NHS Healthcare Careers Work Experience Programme - Allied Healthcare Mentor (alliedhealthmentor.org)

Careers in the NHS

• Introduction to Studying Veterinary MedicineCourse - FutureLearn

Veterinary medicine work experience via Future Learn

You can look at the websites of most well known companies to see the type of work experience they provide. Many students make use of friend and family contacts to get work experience placements which are often easier to organise. Many sectors and companies provide online work experience in the form of bookable online courses or on demand courses that are made up of pre-recorded videos and tasks. This is a really great way of gaining experience and informing your future decisions on courses to study and career paths to follow.

Here are some suggestions of online courses, most of them are free. This is just a small selection, so spend some time searching for one that you are interested in.

Law

• Virtual work experience programme | Careers in law | Browne Jacobson

Law work experience

• White & Case UK Commercial Law - Forage (theforage.com)

Law work experience

• Virtual law work experience for students (pinsentmasons.com)

Law work experience

• Linklaters UK Commercial Law - Forage (theforage. com)

Law work experience

Business

• Barclays LifeSkills (springpod.com)

This is an example of one of the companies work experience programmes run by SpringPod

• KPMG AU Data Analytics - Forage (theforage.com)

KPMG data analytics online internship

• Skills From IGD

Supermarket and retail industry work experience

Stem

• Siemens Innovation (springpod.com)

Careers in the tech sector

• Free Webinar | Operation Wallacea (opwall.com)

Conservation and Environment Work experience – some require payment

• Chemistry related work experience | RSC Education Chemistry work experience ideas

Creative

• Halliday Fraser Munro - Work Experience Zone (hfm. co.uk)

Architecture and design work experience

• Side Quest

Building your own video game

• Hunter Bevan

Marketing

Charitable Sector

• FREE - Work experience in the third sector - Future First Charitable sector