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| 1 Feb 2012 |
Schools and colleges should check that their students are equipped with appropriate personal protective euipment (such as safety boots) where this is required by the employer. Whilst employers are able to provide equipment such as hard hats and gloves they are not commonly able to provide safety boots. The requirements for each placement are included in details on the database. Students should not be allowed to go to placements requiring safety footwear unless you are certain that these are available to students and that they have been reminded to wear them.
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| 4 Jan 2012 |
Wales Millennium Centre Cardiff Bay
Students must send a CV with the booking request letter to be considered for the placement & must attend an interview before being accepted onto this placement.
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| 9 Dec 2011 |
VOLUNTEERING
Cathays Community Centre are currently looking for volunteers to assist & participate in their music festival: ‘Under Construction Festival’ for 11th August 2012. The criteria for volunteering are set out below:
Must have a passion for music, an interest in multi-media, & be a good communicator, Students who are in year 10 upwards will be considered, Students must complete a volunteer application form available from the centre
& attend an interview. Advantage if you live near the centre or are prepared to travel. Students must commit to the programme: will need to attend meetings at the centre on a Sunday at 3.00p.m. & be willing to dedicate their own time to the project, at least once every week (times are negotiable). IT skills are an advantage for this work.
To register your interest in this project or for any further information please contact Mr Jon Wilson at the Cathays Youth Centre tel: 029 20373144/029 20255872, email: email@cathays.org.uk
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| 6 Dec 2011 |
Save the Children are offering a work experience placement as a Participation Unit Assistant. The placement is avaialble:
27/02/2012 - 2/3/2012 Opprtunity ID 7150
9/07/2012 - 13/07/2012 Opportunity ID 7153
Placements must be booked via the Work Experience Database.
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| 25 Nov 2011 |
Vale of Glamorgan Council Leisure Centre placements are unavailable until further notice.
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| 24 Nov 2011 |
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board will be offering the Medical Work Observation Programme (MWOP) to sixth form and mature students who wish to consider a career in medicine only.
The programme will provide an insight into the various careers available to medical students. This will be delivered at University Hospital of Wales (UHW) and University Hospital Llandough (UHL)
Criteria for applications
• Must be at least 17 years of age by August 2012
• Must be studying for AS levels or equivalent in subjects relevant to Medicine
• Must have shown interest in studying Medicine
• Must have at least 3 A* at GCSE
• Students MUST be able commit for the full 5 day programme
• Priority will be given to students that live in Cardiff and Vale Area.
Dates for 2012: The Medical Work Observation Programme will run for 5 days on the following week
UHW- 02 July 2012
UHW- 09 July 2012
UHW- 16 July 2012
UHW & UHL- 23 July 2012
UHL- 30 July 2012
UHL- 06 Aug 2012
UHL- 13 Aug 2012
Application forms available from Careers Wales please email: work.experience@cardiffandvale.org.uk
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| 19 Oct 2011 |
Dow Corning
Available for Vale Schools only.
Monday 12th March - Friday 16th March, 2012
Monday 2nd July - Friday 6th July, 2012
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| 29 Sep 2011 |
BRITISH AIRWAYS MAINTENANCE CENTRE
The dates offered by this employer are:
6th - 10th February 2012
12th - 16th March 2012
2nd - 6th July 2012
9th - 13th July 2012
22nd - 26th October 2012
Application forms are available from our administration desk and must be sent to the employer with the Careers Wales Booking Request Form.
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| 26 Sep 2011 |
Volunteering & work experience
Headway are no longer able to take students for volunteering or work experience due to the high demand placed on them by University students: they may consider next year
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| 21 Sep 2011 |
Physiotherapy work experience with the Cardiff & Vale University Health Board is available on a Day Release basis (2 days) on the following dates for 2012.
Op Id 6848 31/01-01/02/2012
Op Id 66850 06-07/03/2012
Op Id 6851 20-21/03/2012
Op Id 6852 03-04/04/2012
Op Id 6853 17-18/04/2012
Op Id 6854 08-09/05/2012
Op Id 6855 22-23/05/2012
Op Id 6856 05-06/06/2012
Op Id 6858 03-04/07/2012
Op Id 6859 17-18/07/2012
Op Id 6860 04-05/09/2012
Op Id 6862 02-03/10/2012
Op Id 6863 16-17/10/2012
Op Id 6864 06-07/11/2012
Op Id 6866 04-05/12/2012
The following placements are available to age 18+ only
Op Id 6870 14-15/02/2012
Op Id 6871 17-18/04/2012
Op Id 6872 19-20/06/2012
Op Id 6873 18-19/09/2012
Op Id 6874 20-21/11/2012
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| 25 Aug 2011 |
Please note that all requests for Cardiff Dog’s Home MUST be processed through Careers Wales Database & e-mailed to Mike Winnard (see job description for details) in the usual way. Any private requests from schools or parents will be declined, so please do not contact them directly as you will be referred back to Careers Wales. Many thanks in advance for your cooperation on this matter.
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| 18 Aug 2011 |
The BMA's Becoming a Doctor resource for prospective medical students is now online. This updated version is for entry in 2012 and includes video interviews with medical students on what it's like to apply for and study medicine.
The resource can be found here: http://www.bma.org.uk/careers/becoming_doctor/becomingadoctor.jsp
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| 18 Jul 2011 |
Students considering work experience placements with the National Museum & Galleries, St Fagans National History Museum & The National Roman Legion Museum must allow at least 8 weeks’ notice prior to placement in order for the placement to be processed. All applications must be accompanied by a booking request letter in order for them to be considered.
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| 13 Jul 2011 |
Charlton House Catering is offering students an excellent opportunity to undertake work experience at the National Assembly for Wales in their very busy catering department. The placement will encompass all aspects of the catering. The work will be varied & could include: catering, hospitality, and housekeeping.
The student MUST be 16 and have a keen interest in catering and hospitality, plus studying a related subject at school.
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| 16 Feb 2011 |
Requests for work experience with Game Stores Ltd must now go through Head Office - Game Stores Group Ltd, Unity House, Telford Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire with a copy sent to the Store Manager at Game Stores, 50 Grand Arcade, St Davids 2, Cardiff CF10 2ER. Students need to write direct giving details of dates and the store they wish to go to. The only store in Cardiif taking students is in the St David's 2 Centre. They also require a couple of month's notice.
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| 27 Jul 2010 |
Please note that Marks & Spencer, Queen Street can take requests from 01/02/2012 to 01/09/2012: there are 10 places on offer & they have to be booked through the Careers Wales database site the ID number is 6977. The placement must be requested at least 1 month in advance as the store has to interview the students, measure them for uniforms etc. Having spoken to the recruitment officer at the store, she mentioned that M&S give the students a handbook called 'Guide for Students' if your students are going to M&S for work experience please could you set aside some time with them to go through the handbook prior to the student starting work experience many thanks Michele Govier
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| 25 May 2010 |
Students who are considering applying for work experience placement with the Welsh Assembly Government at Cathays Park, Cardiff must be aware that this employer requires 3 months notice in order to process requests. Applications must be made through the Careers Wales on-line database including any PRIVATE PLACEMENTS that they have obtained.
In addition, the students MUST complete an application form available from Careers Wales & this MUST be sent with the booking request letter & has to have a teacher’s signature on the form. If this procedure is not followed the students will NOT be considered for placements. Any direct requests made from teaching staff or parents will be referred back to Careers Wales.
The Welsh Assembly Government actively encourages work experience requests from applicants of ethnic background and applicants with disabilities.
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| 5 Jun 2008 |
All placements within Cardiff and Vale University Health Board MUST be booked via the database, HOWEVER, booking request letters MUST be emailed NOT posted. The email addresses for the relevant department and the HR department will be in the Special Booking details and letters must be emailed to BOTH.
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| 15 Feb 2008 |
Students who are 14 or over and play to Grade 5 or above can apply for work experience with the Corps of Army music by email to : nco2crt@hq.dcamus.mod.uk
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| 24 Sep 2007 |
All catering placements offered by Vale of Glamorgan schools must be booked through Vale Catering Services in the normal way. Placements organised directly with schools are unauthorised and against Vale of Glamorgan l.e.a. policy.
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| 10 Oct 2006 |
BBC WALES. Applications for work experience with the BBC are now to be made via their website through a centralised scheme for the whole of Britain. Students must allow at least 4 months for the application to be processed and would not know until approx 1 month before the placement was due to start because of scheduling etc.
This is the link to the application form: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/jobs/wx_apply.shtml
This is the link to the variety of work experience placements offered in Wales. Click on the Department and you will get the placement description criteria.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/jobs/workexperience.shtml
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| 7 Jun 2006 |
The following organisations actively encourage work experience requests from applicants of black and minority backgrounds as these groups are currently under represented in their organisations:
- Wales West Housing Association
- Hafod Housing
- Cardiff Commuity Housing Association
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| 29 Jun 2005 |
Placing Students who have Special Needs.
Just a reminder to teachers of the need to contact employers prior to placements if there is any information they need to be made aware of (eg if a student has any special needs).
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| 14 Feb 2005 |
Travel to and from work experience will be unsupervised and requires pupils to make their own arrangements. Students will not usually be superivised during tea/lunch breaks.
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| 26 Oct 2004 |
We have now updated our home/welcome page to include an English or Welsh version of a 'Guide for Parents'.
Parents can obtain a copy of this via the website at : www.work-experience.co.uk/cardiff and clicking on downloads on the Welcome screen.
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| 11 Oct 2004 |
Careers Wales will only approve placements where students are entered as ‘allocated’ in the on-line system. Careers Wales cannot take any responsibility for student placed directly by schools and colleges, even in cases where these placements are with database employers.
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| 26 Aug 2004 |
Employer names, telephone contacts and list of approved employers are hidden from the student menu.
Please remember that all places on the system must be booked through school or college before students contact employers to confirm placements and arrange interviews.
Students can search and view placement details and location but they need to see their teacher/lecturer to book a place and obtain full employer details.
This has been done to prevent people taking details from the system and telephoning employers directly to request placements. This practice led to a number of employers withdrawing their offer of work experience.
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