Our annual Year 12 Work Experience Week took place from 1st July to 5th July, offering our young people a wonderful opportunity for them to gain insight of the world of work and to support them in developing the essential skills that future employers will look for. The whole year group engaged with employers through a combination of traditional work experience placements and hybrid experiences including half day workplace visit, virtual work experience and post-18 destination research.
Work Experience at Colt
Some of our pupils on placements secured these through the School, where they participated in a new recruitment process that involved both a placement application and final interview with our supporting employers. Another portion of our pupils used their initiative to secure their own placement.
We work with a wide range of employers for our Work Experience Programme and across the week our pupils were able to experience sectors from law and finance to creative media and production. The feedback we have gained so far is overwhelmingly positive and speaks to both the time and effort our employer partners have put into these experiences, as well as the positivity and dedication our young people brought to the workplace every day:
Work Experience at Raw TV
“We thoroughly enjoyed having Jonathan, Alexander, Abdulahi, James and Fraser from CFBS with us at Raw for work experience. We were really impressed by their enthusiasm, maturity, politeness and openness to learning. We hope that from doing the four day placement they’ve developed some useful skills, increased their understanding of a career in TV production and grown in confidence.”
- Suzy at Raw TV
Jonathan at Raw TV
“Michael was polite, enthusiastic and a fantastic intern at GRAPH.”
- Ash at GRAPH Strategy
Students also took part in a half day work insight across four employers on Tuesday 2 July: Colt, BNP Paribas Asset Management, White Collar Factory and DEPT. These insight days gave our young people a chance to experience the world of work first-hand, and gain a broad understanding of the various roles and departments that make up and support the running of a professional organisation. Pupils also used Unifrog to engage in a day of virtual work experience across the week allowing them the opportunity to develop key employability skills.
Work Experience Visit to White Collar Factory
Central Foundation would like to extend a warm thank you to all of our employer partners for another successful year of work experience, and congratulate all of our young people for pushing outside of their comfort zone working with a wide range of new people and representing themselves so well.