work placements
Offering a work placement to a young person can bring fantastic benefits to your business and help support our local communities and economy. Our #LearnALiving campaign aims to boost the number of work placements available to young people across Perth and Kinross.
Get involved
To find out more about Developing the Young Workforce Perth and Kinross, ask us a question or discuss how you can get involved please get in touch.
Why are local employers getting involved?
Whether you can devote an hour, one day, a week or more, there are lots of ways businesses and employees can get involved:
To give young people a helping hand; breaking the cycle of ‘no experience, no job’.
Learning about team work, working with customers and the responsibilities of being an employee; these skills enhance their employability for the future.
Recruitment; work experience placements are a fantastic way for employers to gain exposure to a pipeline of skilled potential new employees.
Raising your business’ profile in the local community and enhancing your reputation to potentially new customers.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
There are 10 secondary schools in Perth & Kinross that are involved in Work Experience.
Work experience placements can happen in two ways; each school has an allocated work experience week when pupils in 4th, 5th or 6th year are given the chance to go on a placement. These placements can either be found by the pupil themselves with an employer they know or they can apply for a placement through our online platform for schools.
This is where employers’ placement opportunities are displayed. Alternatively some schools allow pupils to undertake a more extended work experience where they can work with the employer for a day/half day per week over the course of an academic year.
IS THERE ANY SUPPORT AVAILABLE FOR BUSINESSES?
Our Employer Engagement Advisors, Donna and John, will help you complete all the necessary paperwork and support you from the beginning of your placement through to its successful completion!
“We actively promote opportunities to give young people the chance to come and work at our sites. I’m delighted to be an ambassador of the #LearnALiving campaign and I would really encourage other employers to do the same.”
Derek Petterson – McLeod Glaziers
“We have been working with DYW for the past 2 years in Perth, they are always keen to attend monthly meetings, assist with oiling the cogs of integrating education with construction and willing to give up time to join in activities of either Building a Bridge (ICE) or gardening and landscaping at a local school.Working with DYW also gives our young Engineers the opportunity to talk to the next young workforce about the exciting world of working at Balfour Beatty, building a better world..”
Ken Brown – Balfour Beatty
“Supporting the #LearnALiving campaign has given the team at Crieff Hydro the opportunity to showcase the world of hospitality to an array of enthusiastic young people. With DYW’s support, it was incredibly easy for us to get involved and welcome 14 young people from Crieff High School to work in a range of departments across the business and equally rewarding to see how much they all learned from their week working with us..”
Steven Leckie – CEO Crieff Hydro Family of Hotels
“Our partnership with DYW complements our ongoing relationships with education partners including Blairgowrie High School….
“The benefits are mutual. Young people bring a whole new energy and perspective to our workplace, while existing employees can build both supervisory and mentoring capabilities. This enhances staff engagement, loyalty and retention. By investing in people, we’re not only improving employability prospects for young people; we’re growing our talent pool, strengthening our business and, in turn, delivering wider benefits for the local community and the economy at large..”
John Reynolds OBE – CEO Castle Water
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