The golden era of work experience is over |
It’s not just me imagining it, work experience is becoming more rarefied. According to the Institute of Student Employers (ISE), internships and placements dropped by 1 per cent last year. Despite Labour’s election manifesto pledge to ‘guarantee two weeks of work experience’ to every young person, analysis from The Key Group shows this is a reality for less than half 14-15-year-olds. In fact, less than two per cent of pupils did a fortnight in a place of work.
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Aware of their broken promises, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) recently announced the creation of 300,000 opportunities for work experience for young people, thus ‘helping them onto the career ladder’.
Back in 1996 all we had to do was ring around a few family and friends to fix my two-week summer work experience conundrum. Fast forward 30 years and I don’t dare tell my 16-year-old daughter that I managed to secure endless work experience when I was her age. Trying to replicate the same rite of passage for her is like herding stray cats.
After emailing every contact under the sun, I finally managed to get my daughter some work experience after her GCSEs this........