Work Experience for Boland College students

On a daily basis South African employers are confronted with a shortage of adequately qualified and experienced staff. Students at Further Education and Training colleges are a good future source of such staff. You can try them out at no cost to your company and at the same time help them develop their skills by offering them a short period of work experience.

We wish to place students who are registered for National Curriculum (Vocational) and other college programmes with employers for periods of workplace-bases experience (WBE). Our goal is to place students for between five and fifteen consecutive days in each year of study. During these placements, employers are asked to orientate students to their companies and allow them to work alongside employees doing jobs related to the students' field of study.

For many young people, obtaining this kind of work experience has been life transforming. They have developed a better understanding of their chosen career and how it is practiced in the workplace. This has motivated them to work harder and succeed. Many students have formed relationships with employers that led to immediate offers of employment after graduation.

Employers benefit too. Students are a source of future employees that you can get to know before hiring. By hosting students, you get a chance to influence the training that the college provides and slant it more towards the needs of your industry. You can also get points on your company's BEE scorecard. The students should not be paid for any work done during their placements and no financial contribution is expected from you as the host employer. The only cost to you is the notional one of supervising the students during their time in your company.

We hope you will join us in this initiative. Please contact us so that we can set up a meeting to explore how it might work for you.