My work experience was at Carlin Motorsport a F3 racing car team

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Citizenship

Work experience comes from topic 1 in the citizenship syllabus. This part of the syllabus covers school, work and the community. I chose work experience as it covers the points necessary for the syllabus. The parts of the syllabus were covered as we firstly planned the experience at school, and this would then lead us to work in the community.

During Year 10 in the autumn term (2004) our Monday tutorial sessions were used to get us prepared for our work experience. In one of the lesson we had a visit from Mrs Penning of Connexions who told us what we’d get from our work experience. This was important because we looked at the different jobs on offer, what options would suit us and what employers look for in us.

We also had talk in several assemblies about how it was important to be organised for our work experience. Which encouraged me to make enquires about my placement.

We also had a database available to us with which we could search for suitable jobs. This was important for those who were looking for ideas about the kind of placement that they wanted.

In the spring term we had mock interviews for our placement when an interviewer came into school and interviewed us. This was a useful experience as we will have to take part in interviews when applying for the job.

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Introduction to my work experience

In July 2003 I participated in the schools work experience program. I firstly decided to link my work experience with my hobby that is in the motor sport industry, as I have raced karts for many years and have always been involved in motor sport from a very early age. Unfortunately there isn’t that many jobs in the motor sport industry in Devon I had to look further a field for a placement of this nature. The nearest placement that I could find was in Aldershot, so I had to ...

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