Work Experience

Work Experience 2021

The Work Experience program is an important and compulsory part of the learning framework for Year 10 students at Cranbourne Secondary College.  It is designed to enhance your social and work readiness skills to allow career exploration and to generally help prepare you for learning and life after you leave the College.

The program requires students to work for a chosen employer (not parents) for five working days in the second last week of term 3.  

A very successful Work Experience program sees many students go voluntarily into workplaces to observe and learn some job skills in a field of interest.  Work Experience is also valuable in raising students’ awareness of how the workforce operates and the training and personal qualities required for particular jobs.

Why do Work Experience?

• To improve your understanding of the work environment
• To learn which skills and competencies are required in the workplace
• To become more aware of the demands of specific occupations
• To explore possible career options and to assess your suitability to pursue a particular career path
• To develop organisational and planning skills in arranging your own work experience
• To gain confidence and skills in approaching employers by telephone, personal visit or letter
• To improve communication and interpersonal skills by working with people whom you do not know and adapting to a new environment To improve written skills in terms of resume, application and thank you letter writing
• To receive an evaluation which may be used as a reference for casual employment
• To gain experience, which may be directly relevant to the course you wish to pursue

Remember the golden rule is: “The harder you try, the harder we try”.  

It is important the STUDENT rather than the parent does this ground work and job searching.  This is part of the experience (as is rejections!)