Benefits of Workplace Learning
The benefits for students:
- Develops an understanding of the theory by practical application.
- Enhances further, education, training and employment prospects.
- Assists in Career Planning.
- Provides a realistic understanding of expectations in specific industries.
- Develops personal and communication skills.
- Boosts self-esteem, confidence and responsibility.
- Develops an awareness of the link between school, further education and employment.
The benefits for Host Employers:
- Improving personal satisfaction of staff
- Community recognition
- Efficient, effective recruitment
- Enhancing the skill base for an industry
- Increasing Productivity
- Improving the 'bottom line'
- Develops an awareness of the link between school, further education and employment.
The benefits for the Community:
- More effective entry-level skill building
- Businesses paying closer attention to recruitment of school leavers and beginning to trust the references and judgements of schools about graduates.
- Communities taking pride and ownership in new forms of co-operative management of young people’s transition from school to work.
- Better relationships between local business communities and young people
Julie Bertolucci
Linda Whiteside
