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Work Experience

LOG BOOK

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Notes

This log book should be taken with you to your work experience placement and used to take notes about what has happened during your time on work experience.

Each day you will have a section to fill in relating to your experiences during your placement. Try to fill in the diary each day as you will forget important points and events if you leave it to the end of the week.

To support your evidence it would be helpful to use the log book to research then record information on two different job studies while you are on placement.

You must also ask your supervisor to complete a report – either each day or at the end of the week. This is essential as part of your evidence. You must therefore give the log book to your supervisor to complete and sign the appropriate sections.

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Fill in these details

Your name

Your school

Your class

Name of Company

Address

Name ofContact person

Tel number


Checklist

I have printed out my ‘Ready to go’ checklist

I have contacted the company and confirmed my placement

I know how to get to the placement and what bus (train) goes there.

I know what time I need to be there.

I know who I am going to ask for when I get there.

I know what I should wear for the job

I know what to do for lunch

I have collected any personal protective equipment that I need (if appropriate)

I have printed out the ‘Improving my skills’ sheet with notes on my target skills, and kept a copy ofthis together with this log book.


DIARY SECTION

Notes to Pupil

There is a page in this section for each day of your placement. You should fill in each page at the end of each day.

If possible, you should also ask your supervisor to complete the accompanying report page at the end of each day. If this is not possible however, the Completion of Tasks section, (Page 26), in the Pupil Assessment Form should be completed at the end of the week.

Notes to Supervisor

Your comments on the daily tasks will be welcomed by pupils as they will use this form in the debriefing after their placement and will also help them in the completion of application forms and CV’s.

If it is not possible to do this on a daily basis however, an overview of the tasks completed during the week would be acceptable (see the Completion of Tasks section on page 26)


Day 1

When I arrived at work my first impressions were:

The name of the person I was working with today was:

Their job title is:

Some tasks I completed today were:

Some problems I came across today (at work or getting to work) were.


Supervisor’s report

Is the information opposite a satisfactory account of the pupil’s activities? Yes No

Any other comments

Supervisor Name:

Position in organisation:

Date:


Day 2

Approximately how many people work at your placement?

Where is the first aid room/box?

What would you do if the fire alarm sounds?

Are there any machines/pieces of equipment that you are not allowed to use?

What I enjoyed most about today was:




Any other comments

Supervisor Name:


Date:


Day 3

Over the last 2 days I have managed to work on my three targets by doing the following: (See your ‘Improving your skills’ sheet for your three targets)

Do the people at your workplace belong to a Trade Union? If so, what is it’s name?

Write down any information you have found out about the Trade Union or the people who belong to it?

The best thing about today was:




Any other comments

Supervisor Name:


Date:


Day 4

What would you have to do if you were interested in applying for a job with this company (where would they advertise, what skills would they be looking for etc.)

Write down what your main activities/tasks were for today.

What have you found to be the most difficult thing that you have been asked to do?




Any other comments

Supervisor Name:


Date:


Day 5

What will you miss most when you go back to school?

What will you miss least?

If you had to write a report about yourself on how you have coped with your placement, what would you honestly write about yourself?

Write down below how you developed your three target skills during the week. . (See your ‘Improving your skills’ sheet for your three targets)




Any other comments

Supervisor Name:


Date:


JOB STUDIES

Notes

This section provides you with forms for researching two different jobs.

You can do this by interviewing staff, observing staff or by some other form of research.

Doing this exercise will help you to research jobs in more detail (for example, using the PlanIT database) and in making decisions about your future career.


Job Study 1Name of Person

Job Title

Which area or department does this person work in?

What is their remit or role? (for example, managing a team; serving the public; promoting the company.)

Describe the sorts of things this person does as part of their job. How do they contribute to the business? (e.g. greeting customers, writing letters or answering phone calls)

What sorts of skills and personal qualities do they think they need to do the job well? Do they need any qualifications? If so, what are they?


List some people this person may come into contact with during their working week. This can include customers, other workers or visitors to their workplace.

Name Role Internal/External?

Why do they come into contact with this person?












Job Study 2Name of Person

Job Title

Which area or department does this person work in?

What is their remit or role? (for example, managing a team; serving the public; promoting the company.)

Describe the sorts of things this person does as part of their job. How do they contribute to the business? (e.g. greeting customers, writing letters or answering phone calls)

What sorts of skills and personal qualities do they think they need to do the job well? Do they need any qualifications? If so, what are they?


List some people this person comes into contact with during their working week. This can include customers, other workers or visitors to their workplace.














Pupil Assessment Form

Note to pupil

This assessment form should be completed by your supervisor on completing your week’s work experience placement.

Notes to supervisor

Please tick the appropriate box for each section and make comments where relevant.

Your comments will be welcomed by pupils as they will use this form in the debriefing after their placement and it will also be advantageous in completing application forms and CVs in the future.

Supervisor Name:


Date:


Timekeeping

RatingVery Good Good Satisfactory In need of

improvement

Comments

Attendance


improvement

Comments

Appropriate dress


improvement

Comments


Attitude to Work


improvement

Comments

Ability to Communicate


improvement

Comments

Confidence with given tasks


improvement

Comments


Compliance with Health and Safety Regulations

Very Good Good Satisfactory In need of

improvement

Comments

Completion of Tasks

What tasks were carried out?

Did he/she follow instructions? Yes No

Did he/she work in a safe manner? Yes No

Did he/she complete the tasks to an Yes Noacceptable standard?

Did he/she check with you they had Yes Nocompleted the work correctly?

General comments


Now that you have completed your placement

Once you have completed both your placement and this log book, you can now go back into the WorkIT site and do the following:

You may wish to enter the information from this log book onto the site.

You should now complete the following sections in the ‘After your placement’ section of the site:

o Supervisors review – how do you feel about what the supervisor has said about you?

o Skills and qualities review – how do you feel those have changed as a result of your placement?

o My Placement – what do you think you got out of your placement?

o Thank you letter – You can use the template to generate a letter thanking your employer for having you on the placement.


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