This part of the website contains information for employers. Connexions are keen to show you how easy it is to get involved and point out the benefits to all concerned.
Employers
Staff from Connexions Tyne and Wear would like to show you how easy it can be to become involved in work experience. We are the local organiser of work experience for schools and colleges across Tyne and Wear.
Placements are for one or two weeks any time from the beginning of Year 10, depending upon the requirements of the school. In addition to these block placements, many schools are now developing programmes for extended placements, for one or more days a week, over one or more terms.Here is what one employer who provides work experience placements through Connexions thinks. "Having recently had three young people on work experience at our Centre has proved a positive experience for our organisation as well as the young people involved." Huffty Reah, West End Women and Girl's Centre.
Pupils benefit too. Here are just two of the many comments we receive from young people taking part in work experience.
"Work Experience taught me how to communicate with lots of different people."
"Work Experience let me find out what the world of work was like."
Pupils from Edmund Campion School in Gateshead.
