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School careers resources for Gatsby Benchmark 6

Useful downloads and resources to support teaching and learning towards Gatsby Benchmark 6: Experiences Of Workplaces.

Choices careers advice magazines and booklets

Choices are a series of careers and advice magazines and booklets that will help you to understand the wide range of career choices and opportunities available to you across Worcestershire and support you to start planning for your future.

See our Choices advice magazines and booklets

Gatsby benchmark 6: Experiences of workplaces

By the age of 16, every pupil should have had at least one experience of a workplace, additional to any part-time jobs they may have. By the age of 18, every pupil should have had one further experience, additional to any part-time jobs they may have.

Worcestershire Education Business Partnership (EBP) offer a work experience service to educational establishments. The service supports in the placement of students to employers and also carries out all of the necessary health and safety checks required. The below documents provide further information and contact details as well as information about work experience for educational establishments.

Work Experience does not have to be carried out in the traditional placement model, it can be conducted through “industry visits” this is where students are taken to an employer for an industry style visit and get to experience the working environment as well as understand that particular business and its job roles.

If you would like to find out more about Industry visits or would like to organise a visit. Worcestershire Apprenticeships can support you in identifying suitable employers and arrange for the visits to take place on a day and time to suit you. More information can be found below

Please note, if you are an educational establishment in Redditch, Bromsgrove or Wyre Forest, Worcestershire Apprenticeships will support the organisation of your industry visit through the Opening Doors for Business programme.

 In order to carry out meaningful experiences of the workplace, it is important that you have employers who can support you with the delivery.

You can find Worcestershire employers in your district who can support with work experience or industry visits.

If you would like to develop your own network of support, the Parent Pledge campaign has been designed as a ready to go campaign that educational establishments can use to encourage parents of students to sign up and pledge their support to your careers programme.

All of the resources needed to run the campaign can be downloaded below.

Careers Activities

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