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Work placements 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 placement opportunities, ranging from our standard one-week placements to enhance their soft skills and give them an insight into the working world, to T Level industry placements for up to 45 days for each course.
Work placements give you early sight of the new talent coming into your industry. They can help you with recruitment, improve innovation, and increase your organisation’s productivity. They also have important social benefits. A work placement will deliver a number of benefits to your business, including:
We are partnering with local employers to offer substantial industry placements to our T Level students.
You can join this technical education revolution right now. Students are ready to start placements in areas such as:
For more information about work placements, please contact our team on 0161 280 8591 or email placements@burycollege.ac.uk
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