{"id":681,"date":"2015-08-06T21:27:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T21:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/?page_id=681"},"modified":"2015-11-25T23:28:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T23:28:09","slug":"work-experience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/advice\/work-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Work Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Benefits of work experience:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>find out about jobs or industries \u00a0&#8211; help you decide future career\/study choices that interest you or elimate careers which no longer interest you<\/li>\n<li>improve your understanding of the workplace environment and what employers expect of you.<\/li>\n<li>develop your skills (eg communication,\u00a0teamwork and punctuality).<\/li>\n<li>gain referees who you can ask to provide references for future job or study applications.<\/li>\n<li>gain a network of contacts for future study and career advice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>How to find Word experience:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>start by identifying a career\/job which you are interested in and you want to find out more about<\/li>\n<li>use your network &#8211; ask family, friends, neighbours, etc<\/li>\n<li>research local companies\/employers &#8211; consider travel\/transport<\/li>\n<li>see Mrs Patrick or Mrs McNeillis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\">Work Experience arrangements at Balfron High School:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>S4 pupils all complete 1 week of work experience in September- they are all supported throught this process by their form class leader.<\/p>\n<p>Senior pupils arranging work experience must see Mrs Patrick\u00a0for information regarding paperwork required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benefits of work experience: find out about jobs or industries \u00a0&#8211; help you decide future career\/study choices that interest you or elimate careers which no longer interest you improve your understanding of the workplace environment and what employers expect of you. develop your skills (eg communication,\u00a0teamwork and punctuality). gain referees who you can ask to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/advice\/work-experience\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Work Experience<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3233,"featured_media":0,"parent":676,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-681","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/681\/revisions\/867"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}