We believe that work experience has a key role to play in preparing young people for the adult world. It is an opportunity to bring home to them the attributes, skills and knowledge they need to succeed throughout their working lives.
Enhancing employability through work experience involves a three-way partnership among school, student and employer. The school should set the tone, creating positive expectations and briefing students about the objectives of work experience. The student should engage with the process and make the most of the opportunity. The role of the employer is to create the right balance of briefing, tasks, activities and assessment.

AgustaWestland run four one-week Work experience programmes.  The 2010 dates are as follows:

17th -21st May
14th – 18th June
5-9th July
9th-13th August

Where we cannot align our dates with those of our local schools, we encourage interested applicants to consider the August week, which falls within the School summer holidays.

It should be noted from the outset by all that the AgustaWestland Work Experience Programme is not a conventional week of work-shadowing; but a programme devised to act both as a general introduction to the world of work and an insight into working for AgustaWestland, through the medium of workshops, guided tours, hands-on activities and a day of work shadowing.

 
Applications

In order to ensure a fair and consistent process, requests will be dealt with once a year and must therefore be received on a completed work experience application form. Applications must be received between September and the end of December each year for the following year.

 Applicants will be advised by the end of January whether they have been successful. We are unable to accept work experience requests after the cut off date or without a completed application form.
 
Click on the link below to download the application form. Once complete, this should be returned to:
 
Work Experience
Box 97
AgustaWestland
Lysander Road
Yeovil
Somerset
BA20 2YB
 
For further information, please contact the Training Department on (01935) 703494.
DEADLINE FOR 2010 APPLICATIONS:  31ST DECEMBER 2009