Unit 13 Work Experience LO 1.2

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

Unit 13 Work Experience

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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.....

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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.

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You have chosen one potential work experience opportunity

Now try and secure an approximate 40 hour placement with that organisation

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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

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