What is expected of you?

Getting work experience with a Club 21 company or charity is a fantastic opportunity- if it is being offered, grab the opportunity with both hands! This is your chance to enhance your CV and gain relevant work experience.

Take the initiative and let us know what kind of work experience would interest you. Don't be afraid to ask questions! Although many work experience opportunities involve summer work placements, some companies may offer you project work or the chance to shadow an existing employee, a part-time opportunity and/or work during term-time. We will contact the organisation on your behalf to find out what kind of opportunities are available. If you have an idea of what it is you would like to do on placement, contact Club 21 and tell us.

In order to help you gain as much as you can from your experience while on placement, we ask you to:

- Record your experience and what you have learned. Before you go out on placement you will be given a Club 21 Placement Learning Diary. This will allow you to appraise your performance on placement and to think about your current skills and any skills that you need to develop. Your placement supervisor will set objectives with you at the start of the placement and at the end, and you will have the opportunity to discuss to what extent you feel your objectives have been met. By completing your diary, you will have lots of good information for your CV and you will also have a wealth of good examples to use when answering competency-based questions on graduate application forms!

- Provide us with feedback. You will be given a questionnaire to complete during your placement. We want and value your opinions on Club 21 and how we can improve it.

- Create a good impression of yourself- you could end up applying to the same organisation for a graduate job!If you have any problems with any aspect of your placement let us know because we are here to help! In the first instance, email Sheena McBeth (Club 21 Project Manager) at Sheena.McBeth@glasgow.ac.uk

 "Religiously record the skills you gain and work experience activities you do so that you can pull out good examples on applications and in interviews"
TARGETJobs.co.uk

"We believe that undergraduates get the chance to become involved in some real work when undertaking a placement"
Elaine Neilan, Recruitment Manager, Amor Group