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Work experience resources

Sometimes finding work experience can be a tricky process, discover if these organisations can help to kickstart your career.

Work experience

Click here for the latest information about work experience opportunities.

What work experience gives you

Find out about the wide range of valuable things you can gain from having a go at some form of work experience.

Virtual Work Experience

Experience a day in the world of a digital agency with a unique and highly interactive video.

Online work experience

Register for our programme for young people in the UK aged 14-19, with online activities and 5 live sessions with Barclays employees.

Virtual Work Experience: An educator’s experience

Read Lin’s story about how she used our interactive video tool to prepare her students for work experience.

Why all work experience is good work experience

How work experience can have a positive benefit on your career

How to get work experience

Click here for an update on LifeSkills work experience placements

I want virtual work experience

Learn where your skills are needed in the modern workplace and see the inner workings of a company.

Help your students get work experience virtually

Support your students to gain insight into a range of workplaces virtually from a simulation tool, broad range of industry films and interactive worksheets.

Making the most of your virtual work experience

Explore a virtual workplace and understand the different roles available and what skills are needed for them.

How I got the most out of my work experience…and how you can too.

Jess explains how Virtual Work Experience helps you get the most out of work experience.

Transferable skills examples

Learn about transferable skills, what they are and how they can help in life and at work. Watch our film to find out more.

Evolving jobs of the future

It's important to consider how technology has and is continuing to change the world of work when preparing for your career. Take a look at our guide outlining careers of the future to see how your skills can transfer across.

Practise managing workplace challenges

Prepare for the world of work with work experience practice tasks similar to ones you would be likely to complete on a work experience placement.

Types of job and skills by profession

Curious about the world of work? Learn about different types of job and the skills needed to succeed in each profession with case studies and more from LifeSkills.

How a financial career may work for you

Our online lesson explains the services a bank like Barclays offers, and an overview of the different roles needed to carry those out.

what is it like to work in finance

Young people can meet a number of Barclays employees through our short films, describing their job roles and the skills they use daily from problem solving to aiming high.

Emma Blackery I My day at innocent

YouTube vlogger Emma Blackery spends a day with smoothie giants Innocent.