Work Experience in US and UK???

does anyone know if they have Work Experience/ Work Placement in the US and in the UK, i'm working on a story and need to know if they have it and if so what it is called

do you mean similar to what high school kids over here do in year 9 or 10? do they do that overseas?

I'm a little unsure as to what you are asking.

US they're known as interns I'm pretty sure....more of a college thing rather than highschool age I think

The Dr Of Style wrote:US they're known as interns I'm pretty sure....more of a college thing rather than highschool age I think

i always thought interns were more like employees in training/ completing their education. more than a work experience, which is getting a taste for the job to see if you would actually like to do it or not.

Jock here what do you want to know?

You can go and be a camp "councellor" for the U.S kids camps, they last around 6-8 weeks over summer holidays....

sorry just got back from work, yeah i mean what school kids do in yr 9 to 11

When i was a young lad work experience was encompassed in a program named Compact, it was basically a record of all things relating to your personal schooling life which would look good to an employer (if you actually did well)
The main areas where things like: Timekeeping, appearance,sick days (i did not fair well in this section) attitude to work etc.
It was over the course of 3 years and the student got to keep the records at the end to show to prospective employers, thinking on it now the kids who had a bit of savvy would realise that if they scored well in this it could help them in later life, and for emplyers looking to take people on they could quickly whittle down interviewes based on these results.
Work experience as i said was part of the program it consisted of 1 weeks actual working in the field you had an interest in pursuing (or as close to it as the guidance staff could could get you) from memory i think i was around 13 or 14 at the time.
We also had other initiatives at school where you would get say 2 days at college to study in the field of your choice.
Various organisations (police,army,local council etc) would put on special career days where you could get a bit of hands on experience which was generally organised through local schools.

Anything else you want to know hit me up, i have the original compact paperwork and my WE log book so i can check anything out.
Unfortunatly i will not be posting up my results as i do not want to encourage any kids reading to act like me, lets just say attendance was not compulsory as far as i was concerned.

thanks but all i really need to know is if the UK and US have work exp and what it's called

Work experience maybe?

Or maybe a series of clicks and whistel's with random words?
something like this?

nimbibi-click-click-whirr-toot-toot-fzzzzt?

UK is just called work experience and yes we have it.
As for the U.S im not sure but i beleive conscription could be what it is called.

ok thanks

UncleCletusKasady wrote:As for the U.S im not sure but i beleive conscription could be what it is called.

was it wrong of me to have laughed at this?? good one uck

ur a naughty boy UCK, but i also chuckled!!

Wow, UCK, Scotland had it good. As a young lad back in London, the headmaster suddenly announced, "Right, work experience time is coming up, have a think what you want to do when you leave here and we`ll try and place you in that field!" and we had about a week to decide our 'futures' with most opting to tag along with their dad/uncle/brother etc. A friend of mine wanted to be a cartoonist and got placed with the artist impression guy at Scotland Yard!!!

HAL wrote:. A friend of mine wanted to be a cartoonist and got placed with the artist impression guy at Scotland Yard!!!

Thats classic will need to remember that and adapt it to my life story.

My wife is from rural Scotland way up north and she wanted to be a nurse and obviously choose to go to the local hospital, well the nearest they could get to that was the local butcher she obviously refused and was placed in the SPAR
Ah well it all turned out good as she is still nursing despite a shaky start.
True story DBF can confirm.