Her favourite subject is PE and she's thinking about becoming a PE teacher. Gillian discovered that work experience is very different from school. My work experience gave me the chance to find out what I could do and what I couldn't do. I worked in a leisure complex doing different things. After I got into the routine, I was able to use my own initiative.
Work experience is really good.
It gives you a chance to find out what work is really like. Here's our Top 10 Tips for surviving the workplace jungle 1 Speak to your guidance teacher about what you're likely to get out of work experience. 2 Listen carefully in work experience briefing sessions - you'll find out about things like what you should wear and health and safety. 3 Have a practice run before you start the job to make sure you know how to get there and how long it'll take. You don't want to be late on your first day.