Gaining relevant work experience is vital to support your job search – without it you’re less likely to be successful at interview.
Our aim is to support local people to gain the best advantage they can with valuable work experience and we offer short term (usually one to two weeks) unpaid placements that can help you. We may also be able to help you with job shadowing, taster days and part time placements lasting up to three months.
What will I gain from a placement?
Anyone. Whether you're at school, college or university, or are unemployed, we welcome work experience applications from the local community.
Where could I go in the council?
Above all be motivated to achieve – after all this is your opportunity to show us what you can do!
We welcome applications from our local communities and are taking a consistent approach to ensure a fair and equal process is applied when considering work experience applications. To apply for a placement please click one of the links below, which will take you to our application form. The application will ask for some basic personal information so we can get in touch with you, along with preferred dates of the placement and the service area you would like to work in. The form also asks for details on why you are applying for this placement and how it will help with your job search.
Please note that due to demand we can only consider work experience requests from Southampton City residents (i.e. SO14-SO19 postcodes).
Please note if you are requesting a placement within the Children’s Service (i.e. Nursery and Sure Start experience), please apply at least six weeks before the actual date of the placement you are looking for. This is requested in order to ensure any appropriate DBS checks are undertaken to work with children before a placement is taken up.
Where else can I find employment support in Southampton?