Unit 13 Work Experience Learning Aim A2 (Eimear)

• Travel and Tourism
• Further Education (Key Stage 5)

Unit 13 Work Experience

Learning Aim A2

Learning Aim A2

Now that you have extensively researched and compared three work experience opportunities you must make a decision and choose one 

It is important that you consider what you will 

gain from work experience.....

Learning Aim A2

Outcomes and benefits of work experience, consider these before making your final decision:

1. Clarifying short-term and long-term career goals.
2.  Gaining insight into the way travel and tourism organisations operate and the challenges they face.
3. Increasing experience, skills and knowledge: sector-specific skills, transferable employability skills and personal skills.
4. Networking, building contacts and building reputation.
5. Understanding a particular job or range of jobs in the travel and tourism industry.
6. Gaining referees.
7. Attending in-house training courses.

Learning Aim A2

You have chosen one potential work experience opportunity

Now try and secure a 40 hour placement with that organisation

Learning Aim A2

You need to revisit the outcomes and benefits of work experience (slide 3)

Now, explain how your chosen potential work experience placement will provide all of these outcomes and benefits

Learning Aim A2

SAVE your work as it will be used for Unit 13 Assignment 1