The impact of COVID-19 has meant that many transition year students across the country have been unable to part-take in their planned work placements. It’s expected that this issue will continue into the next academic year.
Work placements are an essential aspect of careers education in schools and are additionally important for young people from under-served communities and communities with high levels of unemployment. For this reason, Inspiring the Future Ireland will be rolling out a Virtual Work Placement programme in 2021/2022and is actively seeking host companies for a virtual work placement.
The virtual work placement progarmme will be flexible and varied to suit the needs of the company and can hosted in the following ways:
• 1-2-1 placements for individual students.
• Group placements where a particular team works with a group of students.
• A series of talks, workshops, demonstrations, workplace tours and skill shares, as opposed an alternative to a traditional work placement.
• Can be hosted over one week or spaced out over several weeks (e.g 2 hours every Friday).
• Group placements where a particular team works with a group of students.
• A series of talks, workshops, demonstrations, workplace tours and skill shares, as opposed an alternative to a traditional work placement.
• Can be hosted over one week or spaced out over several weeks (e.g 2 hours every Friday).
If you are interested in hosting a virtual work placement you can sign up here!
