In October and November we had eighty-seven Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 students out on work placements, getting a taste of professional environments to help them plan their career directions in the next few years. Placements were in diverse fields ranging from business consulting, law, investment banking, architecture and government departments, to an orthodox women’s monastery, optometry, virtual reality and product marketing. Students loved how welcome they were made to feel in each of the placements, and being made to feel part of a team in the short time they were there.
Highlights
Some of the highlights for the students were:
- Learning more about Czech defence, and how NATO and the EU work together
- Finding out about unfamiliar job areas such as transfer pricing and private banking
- Seeing the bare infrastructure of projects, and creating a design for the interior and a floor plan for a restaurant
- Experiencing how effective it is when people cooperate in the workplace
- Learning how car leasing works
- The challenges faced when diagnosing a patient, and the importance of customer service in the medical profession
- Being in a new environment and getting used to their needs and obligations
- The Coca Cola plant tour
- Meeting tourists and hearing their stories, and making their day better by being my best self
- Being able to connect creativity and work
- Using technology to analyse the effectiveness of social media advertising
- Seeing how important teamwork is in the workplace, and how much impact the people you work with can have in the job setting
- Meeting lots of experienced people, who tailored the program to our interests and helped us to develop our skills
- Observing an Act of Parliament being debated and approved
- Recognising how the things that we learn in school can be applied in the workplace
- Seeing how competitive businesses work both together and against each other
- Learning how important it is for a business to have a purpose to drive the determination to succeed
- Knowing that when you have a task to be completed in the workplace, it is your responsibility to take the lead and contribute as much as possible
- Being taken seriously as part of the team, which helped me to develop my confidence and was an amazing feeling
- Having interesting conversations with experts in their field.
Placements
The placements were organised with the kind support of ECP parents and their work colleagues. We are very grateful to the parents involved in providing such excellent opportunities to our students, and the students themselves are hugely appreciative of the fantastic experiences that they had, enabling them to develop their skills beyond the classroom environment. Special thanks go to 4A Architekti, Businka-Dobrý Mír, Coca Cola HBC, Cushman & Wakefield, Direct Auto, eLens, Eversheds Sutherland, Grant Thornton, IP Fabric, Ministry of Defence, and Victoria VR for hosting students so warmly and giving them a taste of your professional worlds – we are fortunate to have access to such wonderful opportunities through ECP parents in our community!
