Work experience advice and pointers please. (Yr 10)

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My dd has to organise her work experience,I gather in previous years the school have helped with suggesting places but not this year it seems.

Lots of places won’t allow 14/15 year olds in (including my work place and DP has a dangerous job).

DD doesn’t know what she wants to do for a career so it’s not like I can narrow it down.

What did your dc’s do? And any help or advice welcome!

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Family friends she can tag along with? Any sports clubs she already participates in that she could coach younger kids? Any local volunteering? Charity shop? Small businesses like animal feed shops, hairdressers, boutiques. Smaller ones might be less likely to have a systemic way of saying 'no'. My advice is make sure she contacts herself, I used to get loads of these enquiries (horse trainer) and I couldn't take them all on, so I'd definitely be more likely to take on the ones who get in touch themselves rather than their parents, shows gumption.

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DD worked in a primary school helped in a year 3 class- the school were delighted to have her and she had a great time.

I work in marketing for a tech co, so I arranged a day for DS doing data entry, running a marketing meeting over teams, working with Google Analytics, visiting a printer and writing/proof reading some social media.

He hated it. The main takeaway was that he doesn't want to work in an office. 😀

Since then he's organised (which I'm quite impressed with), two days with a relative who is a land agent in the west country. Doing land agenty things.

And two days working with a slater - we were having our roof replaced at the time, ds loved being up on the roof, and has wangled two days fetching and carrying. I'm trying not to think about the H&S implications. Hopefully it'll be a single storey extension or something like. He's sensible and not a risk taker. 😱

DD wasn't even 15 when they had to do it in Y10 and it was a struggle.

She did hers in the local library, helping with stocking shelves, pre-school reading group, arts&craft sessions. She loved it.

Her first choice was an animal sanctuary but her original dates were cancelled and the new ones weren't available at the sancutary.

But the amount of paperwork definitely puts lots of people off, it's very much whom you know in order to get a decent placement.

My son's school has organised some work experience. He is working in a nursery. He is not very happy with that but I think it will be better than some mindless office tasks.

The school will arrange something (the council will place them somewhere) if they can’t secure work.

I work in a theatre and they won’t entertain anyone under 16 (plus she is not remotely interested in my work 😂). DP works in a dangerous environment so that’s a no go.