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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Team LifeSkills Our Day at Innocent
Find out what happened when we visited the home of smoothie giants Innocent.
8 things to ask when you want advice
Work experience or no work experience, get genuinely useful advice about jobs and careers using these eight questions.
Top 5 tips for effective networking
Learn how to build relationships that can help land you work experience, job opportunities, or advance your career.
Managing workplace challenges activity
Challenge your students to complete projects similar to those set in the workplace.
Understanding proactivity
Find out how taking the initiative and making things happen can help you at work.