It should build your skills and confidence in yourself and it should build the placement provider s confidence in you. Within the period of your work placement your aim should be to become a valued member of the team. With a bit of luck you may have become so valued that they don t want to lose you. Ask them for advice - but don t pester them every day. And if the Producer says that there might be some work coming up in a few months, then ring in a few months and check.
Work placements are hard to get.
Most media organisation receive dozens of requests for work placements every week. A large proportion of these are from Secondary School pupils wanting to do their week of work experience. Just dealing with the letters takes up staff time and consequently people can get quite bad tempered about the whole thing. If your request is just one of the many, your chances of success are minimal. There are plenty of things that will work against your success so don t make basic mistakes.