Planning work experience.

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Citizenship Course work.

Planning work experience.

The citizenship activity was going on work experience. This involved researching different work places and your interests, deciding on a work experience placement that you would like to go to, skills required to type up a letter of application and CV. After this we went on work experience and experienced the working world.

By going on work experience I aim to gain experience and find out if I am suited to this type of working environment and to also explore the working environment. I am also aiming to gain confidence by working independently, ensure I meet deadlines and complete all of my work to a good standard, co-operate with others when working in a group and identifying my own responsibility within the group, improve my confidence, be cheerful and enthusiastic, and gain awareness of my strengths and weaknesses.

Soon after year 10 had begun I was told about work experience and shortly after I was told that it was now up to me to find a placement I would like to go to. I had not yet decided where I wanted to go on work experience and so I gave myself time to decide. I was then told that the deadline for finding my own placement was approaching. I decided to go to Superdrug pharmacy as I am interested in pharmacy and I thought work experience in a pharmacy would be a good working experience. I went to the shop and got the necessary forms filled in by the employer. After completing the form I handed it in to the schools career office. A few weeks later the careers department informed me that I was not able to do work experience at Superdrug, as they did not have insurance for people under the age of sixteen. I then decided to choose a placement from the school, as it was too late to organise my own chosen placement. I choose Cheltenham & Gloucester as I was told that it offered a variety of activities and felt that it would be a very good experience. I then wrote a letter of application to Cheltenham & Gloucester and handed in my CV. A week after applying for the placement I was told that I had got it.

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I was soon given details of the company and a phone number that I could contact my supervisor on. My supervisor was Karren Warren. I then had to organise an interview before I went on work experience. I phoned the placement in the afternoon but my supervisor was not in, I phoned during the day and my supervisor was in a meeting, I phoned again and was told that my supervisor had changed to Adam Aldridge. I then phoned my new supervisor and he was not available. At a later date I was informed by another pupil who was ...

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