Probably City College Norwich’s best kept secret.
It is an invaluable link between the student, eager to learn but nervous of taking that all important first step, and the employer, who can benefit immensely from taking an active role in helping to shape the next generation of employees. Taking a student on a work placement and offering them a basic structured learning programme, may enable you to influence their future career choice, by increasing their overall awareness of the variety of opportunities available to them in your industry. 
This is also the ideal opportunity to review your current health and safety practices, whilst helping students carry out their own personal risk assessment, reinforcing staff awareness.
As an employer you will then have a pool of fresh talent who know how your company operates, and therefore you will know who to choose, when you are next looking to recruit or require specific staff for an adhoc project.
Work placement students can bring fresh ideas to your organisation, looking at situations from a different perspective and give their supervisors the chance to further develop their own interpersonal and people management skills.
Cost effective recruitment PeopleFirst also offer a free job vacancy advertising service around the College and through our internal City College Norwich website, (www.ccn.ac.uk). This gives you access to a marketplace of 20,000 enthusiastic and motivated students, of all ages, looking to put their newly acquired skills to good use.
If you would like to find out more about offering a student work experience or introducing a 'work placement programme' or any of the above, please call 01603 773 379 or email peoplefirst@ccn.ac.uk.
