INSPIRE A YOUNG PERSON THROUGH WORK EXPERIENCE
Work experience offers young people the chance to develop their confidence, communication skills and can help inform their future career choices. As a professional business, there are also many benefits to supporting a young person in the workplace.
Here at Bury college we provide our students with a range of work experience opportunities, ranging from our standard 1 week placements to enhance their soft skills and give them an insight into the working world to ongoing industry placements that last approximately 1 day per week for the duration of the academic year, which are specific to their course of study.
If you are able to offer a valuable work experience opportunity to Bury College students, these simple steps demonstrate how to set-up a placement and your responsibilities:
If you are able to help our students improve and develop their skills for the workplace please contact one of our Bury College Work Experience Placement Co-ordinators on 0161 280 8430 or email work.experience@burycollege.ac.uk
Healthwatch Bury approached Bury College with a work experience opportunity after identifying the need for a promotional video to showcase the support they can offer to people in the community.
Creative Media student Xander Ross stepped up to the challenge and created a high quality, industry standard video that the company could utilise on their website and across their social media platforms.
Barbara Barlow, Healthwatch Bury Chairman, said,
“The video that Xander created was brilliant and is an honest representation of the work Healthwatch Bury is involved in. We were delighted to be in a position to offer a student a work experience opportunity.”