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Work Experience resources

Resources for work experience, work placements, volunteering, gap years

Resources in the Careers Service

We have copies of the following work placement magazines:

  • Prospects - Focus on work experience,
  • Target - Work Experience

Don't forget to check out employers on campus. Some will offer work experience opportunities. ie BUNAC, CCUSA, IAESTE

Online resources

Find out about:

The Careers website has details of work placement opportunities on the JOBSonline vacancy database.

EXODUS database - work and study abroad opportunities

External online resources for work experience opportunities/information

Some employers advertise their work placement opportunities on their own websites. If you are interested in working for a specific employer or want to work in a particular area/industry and know the employers in this area, you may want to check their website for work experience opportunities.

Career specific

Development/NGO(Non-Governmental organisation)

Law placements

Media

Politics and related areas

Public sector

Social/environmental

  • StudentForce - educational charity which provides students and graduates with paid work experience placements in social and economic development and environmental management.

Teaching

Other options - Contact Student Volunteers run many volunteering events which could be very useful to students interested in a teaching career, such as Right to Read, Homework and language Clubs. Find out more here.

Other

  • BBC's Design Trainee Scheme, recruiting for Production/Art Direction, Costume and Make-up this summer. www.bbc.co.uk/designvision.

Specialist work experience schemes

British Council
The United Kingdom's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. Opportunities such as Comenius Assistants - European teaching placements.

STEP

Whether you are looking to participate in an Internship as part of a year out course requirement or seeking some additional experience before entering the graduate recruitment market, our Internships offer structured work experience to give you the edge over the competition: www.step.org.uk/

Graduate Apprentice
The Graduate Apprentice offers the unique opportunity of exploring 3 diverse work placements and experiencing the lifestyle of Birmingham over one year all whilst earning a competitive salary. For more information: www.thegraduateapprentice.co.uk.

IAESTE (The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience)
IAESTE organises paid, study related, summer work experience
placements overseas for students of Science, Engineering, Architecture and Technology.  www.iaeste.org.uk/. 

Windsor Fellowship
The Windsor Fellowship Leadership Programme includes a work placement and is open to ethnic minority undergraduate students in their first year of study (3 year degree course). Find out further information on work experience placements aimed specifically at ethnic minority students.
www.windsor-fellowship.org

The Leonardo da Vinci programme
The Leonardo da Vinci programme is a mobility project set up specifically to allow young people from the EU to travel and work in other European countries, and so aid cultural integration as well as language knowledge.

Students can choose to do placements in one of several locations around Europe including Barcelona, Berlin, Bordeaux, Lisbon, Dublin, Prague as well as many other locations. Foreign language skills are NOT essential in all locations.

Please contact us to find out more about this amazing FREE fully government-funded programme. If you are interested in such a programme, or in any of our Work and Volunteer programmes worldwide, we would be very happy to hear from you!

You can read more about the programme here www.workandvolunteer.com , or by calling us on 020 8297 3261 or by email on cgonzalez@twinuk.com

Projectshop
An online resource bringing together talented students and postgraduates with forward-thinking organisations, to source and undertake challenging, academically credible projects.
www.projectshop.org.uk

Disability Toolkits
Disability Toolkits is a web-based resource that aims to help students with disabilities obtain and make the most of work experience opportunities. www.disabilitytoolkits.ac.uk. Find out further information about work experience placements for students with disabilities.

Overseas placements

The Careers Service online vacancy database - JOBSonline.

The Prospects website has details of where to find work placements abroad in the Explore Working Abroad section (see the 'work experience' section of the individual countries).

Also see:

  • Action Aid overseas project - take part in one of our community build challenges.  Raise a minimum sponsorship to take part.

  • The Anywork Anywhere website is aimed primarily at young people that are looking for summer work, gap year employment or working holiday opportunities all over the world.

  • BUNAC is a non-profit organisation offering work/travel programmes overseas.

  • The Council on International Education Exchange has details of work and study opportunities abroad. www.ciee.org
  • EXODUS database - work and study abroad opportunities

  • i-to-i runs volunteer placements abroad and trains people how to teach English as a foreign language.

  • Raleigh International organises environmental and community projects around the world.
  • Student Partnership Worldwide (SPW) is an international charity working with young people in Africa and Asia.
  • For other examples of overseas opportunities visit the Working abroad web page and the voluntary work abroad pages.

Gap Year organisations

Thinking of taking a gap year or career break, or fancy a summer break with a difference? Join a team of people on a trip to Tanzania or India to participate in a mixture of volunteering in poor primary schools and fairtrade travel. These projects will not only improve your employability but have been carefully planned so that the effect on the country visited is definitely positive. As a volunteer you will not only be participating in worthwhile projects but will also be adding to the local economy through fairtrade travel. In the schools you could be painting murals on the wall or teaching football. After the volunteering you could be trekking in the Himalayas or exploring where fairtrade tea actually comes from.

Please note: the external organisations listed on this page are in no way endorsed by the University of Leicester and are used as examples of opportunities you may wish to investigate yourself.
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