Help - Got to provide 1 day Work Experience for 2 year 9's

[AlexanderHamilton]

I work in an office of a heating company. We are a bit jack of all trades so we answer the phones, type invoices, chase late payments, process invoices & payroll.

I've just been told that one day next week we are going to have 2 year 9's in for the day from a local school (one of them is the daughter of one of the engineers)

What do we do with them? I've seen too many utter mind numbing work experience placements where I used to work where they made tea and nothing much else. What sort of thing would you expect/would your child be wanting?

I can't do anything payroll wise because of confidentiality and it has to be processed on a different day. I thought of saving the post from the day before so they could sort that (we don;t get much though its mostly emails). Then maybe save some delivery tickets and do some cross referencing.

Perhaps save some invoices and get them to enter them up and cost a couple of jobs up (labour, materials, add on profit to get to the figure we charge the client). They can't really type invoices.

What else?

HFA - we are a small company & know each other & our kids. She socialises with my kids. I’ve got an aspie & a PDA if my own.

I’m the chaperone incidentally (need to renew soon actually)

It’s not a Take Your DD to Work day, is it? Poor form for the dad to be off that day! The pupils won’t expect much! An oversight what the company does and how they do it. Some of the other ideas are excellent. I don’t see why they cannot answer the phone, send emails and do basic office tasks after being shown.

I provide work experience in a business that has staff doing lone visits. After discussion with our education business partnership (EBP) we do not send work exp out on visits any more as staff do not have DBS and to protect staff from allegations.
In the office filing, no confidential data entry, making tea, doing cleaning. I suspect the daughter thinks they will get an easy ride.
One of the purposes of work experience is to learn that most jobs contain lots of repetitive, boring bits and that someone has to do these. Again this is part of what I communicate to students when I do employers expectations talks for our local EBP.

I think it’s enrichment week at their school.