How To Manage A Work Experience Kid

Having a work experience person can be a help or a hindrance and there are several things worth considering. It must be looked at as an opportunity beneficial for both parties. Someone will need to manage their time, more than a normal employee would be managed, but they may be able to help with some of the simpler tasks. It is inevitable that a work experience person will be given some of the menial tasks to do, partly because of their skill level and partly because of their status. It is however, very unfair to look upon them as a general dogsbody. They are not there to spend a week doing your menial, dull tasks. Instead, if you are prepared to take one into the working environment then you should attempt to enrich them as people as give them some new skills or at least allow them to use their talents to your advantage.

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