Work experience placements abroad

Looking for work experience placements abroad to improve your language skills and job prospects?

If you are studying A-level modern language, you are in the perfect position for a work experience placement abroad. Spend a week in France, Germany, Spain or Italy, learning independence, language and work skills together with our Group Leaders. Make new friends, gain confidence and independence and impress your oral examiners.
Acorn Educational Exchanges work experience placements abroad can really help improve your job aspects, and the certificate is bound to impress any new employer.

We offer A level work placements and 6th formers work placements.

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The work experience placements

When we receive your booking form, you are sent an application form which asks for a lot of information about yourself. On the back is a list of work areas, 16 different ones in total. We ask you to put your top 8 in order of preference from 1 (your top choice) to 8. You will always be given a placement from these choices (unless your application form is received too late for us to action them, in which case you will be allocated a placement according to availability). Usually you will be given something from your top 3. These choices are broad categories such as “Art/History” which could include a work placement in a museum or in an art gallery shop for example or “Tourism” which might be a placement in an airport or travel agency. You will also be asked to write a letter to your prospective employer in the language of the destination country. All of the information given on the application form and in the letter is taken into consideration when we choose your placement, as is the level of your language skills as outlined by your teacher on the booking form.