Work Experience                 (Daisya Nugent)

I am going to write an essay about my work experience which I did for two weeks to gain more knowledge, understanding, and to develop my social and key skills, also I did this work experience to get a preview on how the real work life is, so that in the future I can have a clear understanding on what I will experience when I get an occupation. However my placement was at a place called connextions where young people (teenagers) go to get jobs and also learn how to make a suitable C.V to get a job interview.

In January 2007 I was told by my form tutor and head of year that it was important for year 10 students to do work experience, however I came from a different country which didn’t do work experience in school, so I didn’t understand why we had to do it this early. Thus my head of year gave me a clear understanding on why I had to do work experience and why it was important. I was very nervous because of the thought that I was going to be in a different environment from school and also I had to socialize and interact with new people. However as the days went by my fears were alleviated due to the children in my school talking about what they wanted to do for work experience and how much fun it was going to be.

After hearing my friends’ comments about work experience and understanding how many skills I would gain, I became very excited about the responsibilities and challenges that I would experience, I was now ready for the selection process. As the days went by, it finally came down to the selection process. That day was very exciting mostly because people wanted good jobs, and also because they wanted to get a job which was similar to the one they wanted to have in the future. That day was ruff but I got through it. We were given a number of job descriptions with different job roles to choose from, and an application from. In spite of this I have always wanted to become a lawyer or a dentist, therefore I was looking for job descriptions to match those jobs, so I was very persistent to find them, and I did, I found four law office assistant trainees, two solicitor trainees and 3 dental assistant job descriptions. I was very excited that I found the job descriptions I wanted, I was then ready to start applying for my work experience job placement.

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When I started filling out my work experience job application form, I saw that I could only apply for only three jobs and I had nine job descriptions so as a result of that, I had to start eliminating, therefore I did that by one law office assistant, one solicitor trainee and one dental assistant to put on my application form. After doing that I then had to write a personal profile to the employers of the jobs I selected, and then take my application form home for my parents to sign in regard that they agreed with the ...

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