Employers

We know there are many local businesses who understand how important it is for sixth form students to get exposure to the workplace. Businesses need confident, skilled, work ready young people to enter the labour market. Varndean Sixth Form College places great value on the links we make with our business community and we want to make sure employers who want to support our students know how they can help.  If you would like to offer our students any of the activities mentioned below, please email the Careers team at careers@varndean.ac.uk and we will get in touch with you.

At your business, you can:

• Meet a Student – and tell them about your business – a student would visit your premises for a morning or afternoon and meet staff, tour your business and find out what your business does.
• Job Shadowing – a student would spend a morning or afternoon or even a full day, shadowing a member of staff (or more than one) to find out what they do in their job.
• Traditional Work Experience – a student would spend 3-5 days at your workplace, working alongside staff perhaps on a mini ‘project’ you set for them.

At our college, you can:

• Share your Story – talk to students about your role, how you got into it and what it’s like to work in that occupational sector – we are always keen to hear from employers who could spend an hour with us.
• Promote your Business – attend Apprenticeship Fairs or Careers Fairs for specific occupational sectors eg Health or Finance or Sport – we run these in the spring and summer terms.
• Broaden the Brief – give our students a ‘live’ project/brief to work on – students get an experience of ‘real work’ – you get fresh ideas for your project and our students get new skills and something to include on their CV.

What we can do for you:

• Advertise your job or apprenticeship vacancy to our sixth form students for free.
• Offer termly business networking breakfast events – a chance to share ideas – and free breakfast!
• Offer fresh ideas on a live project – get a young person’s perspective – good for you, great for their CV.

If you would like to offer any of the activities mentioned above to our students, or if you would like your firm to be placed in our employer ‘possibly may be able to help’ bank, please email us at careers@varndean.ac.uk and we will get in touch with you.