Work experience at
EEB3
Coordinator:
Maria Fouseka – marifouse@gmail.com – B02
What are the main features of work
experience at EEB3?
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The school gives to 5th and 6th year students the
opportunity to participate in« work experience ».
Year 7 pupils can also participate, but they have to be
allowed by the School to do so.
Work experience is not compulsory but highly
recommended.
The work experience is scheduled the two weeks after
the Year 5 and 6 final examens or at any other moment
during the summer holidays.
We prefer this activity to be undertaken in the same
organisation. However, we accept it could be done in two
different (one week each), if necessary.
This activity is not paid and it is covered by the school
insurance.
What is the work experience purpose ?
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It makes the pupils
think about their further
education or career and their professional future
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It gives the pupils an opportunity to discover the
« working environment » especially in the field of
their interest
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This experience will help the pupils to make better
decisions on theirs options at school
Why the work experience could be
usefull for the pupils ?
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This experience could develop their communication skills
and their ability to interact with others as well as their
awareness of the expectations from a professionnal
environnement.
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It can, in some cases, allow the pupils to improve their
knowledge of languages in surroundings different from the
school.
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It is an asset on their C.V. or in an application-file for future
studies, especially in a British University or in a Business
school in France.
Where it can be done ?
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Work experience can be done in Brussels or,
if possible, more or less, anywhere all around
the world.
The shipping and living costs are at the
parents expenses.
We recommend the pupils to do their work
experience in a place where they can use
their L II or LIII.
When it can be done ?
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We prefer the pupils do their work experience during the two
weeks after the June exams, but, if it is not possible, this
activity can be scheduled at an another period during the
summer.
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The internship can also be scheduled during the school year
holidays but an agreement from the school is needed in that
case.
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The work experience is supposed to be done two weeks in a
row at the same place but, if it is not possible, the pupils are
allowed to spend the other week in another organisation.
How to find a placement ?
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The pupils and their parents must find a placement on themselves
The school does not provide any list or contacts.
The pupils compose a CV and a letter of application with the
help of their teachers if necessary.
They contact their parents, colleagues, friends, former pupils who
have already done a work experience to get some connections.
They search the internet to be informed about the companies and
the send the CV and letter to the organisations/companies they are
interested in.
They don’t hesitate to phone to the organisation representative to
support their own application and to get an interview.
They don’t wait the very last moment to apply and take the
deadline of the contract handout (before the end of May) into
account.
What are the roles of the school ?
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The school can offer a support to the pupils to write application
letters and CV and advise them.
The school provides a work experience contract which makes
the placement legal and gets the pupils covered during their
internship.
The school deals with special cases and intervenes in case
of a problem during the work experience.
The school delivers a work experience certificate to those
who provide a work experience report and an evaluation table
completed by the adult responsible for the internship.
What are the different steps of the
work experience ?
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1-Once a pupil has been accepted, he/she must download a
work experience contract from the EEB3 website and have
three original hard copies completed and signed by the pupils,
then the parents, the organisation rep, and the head of the
school (more details on the next slide).
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2-The three contracts has to be signed by all stakeholders and
sent by post to EEB3 before the beginning of the placement
and before the deadline scheduled by the school, otherwise
the placement won’t be insured and considered by the School.
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3-After the internship, the pupil must hand over a work
experience report and an evaluation table, completed by the
adult in charge of the internship.
How to deal with the contract ?
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1 – The pupils and their parents must download and print three
hard copies of it from the school website (the contract is
available in French, English, German and Dutch);
2 – The pupils and their parents must complete and sign up
each copy of the contract (no photocopy or scan allowed for
legal reasons)
3 – The pupil must post the three copies of the contract to the
organisation/company representative before the deadline;
4 – The representative must complete and sign up the three
contracts and post them to Ms Fouseka at EEB3 before the
deadline (no scan/fax allowed).
What are the special cases ?
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Those are the cases the School accepts to take into
consideration after the deadline :
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Application to a work experience at Eurocontrol (special
procedure with selection).
Application to a work experience at the Council of the EU
(special procedure with selection).
Application to an organisation who emailed an agreement
for the internship before the deadline, but sent the three
contracts afterwards.
The others cases have to be introduced to Mr Radhuber
asap.
How to get the contract ?
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Once collected at school by Mrs Fouseka,
the three contracts are transfered to Mr Pino
(Head of EEB3) to be signed up.
One copy is filed by the school and the two
others are handed over to the pupils.
The pupil must send or hand over the
company representative a copy of the
contract signed by the school.
How the pupils must behave
during the internship ?
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As representatives for their school, the pupils
must behave in a responsible way. It means
the pupils must :
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follow the dress code,
arrive on time, be respectful to everybody
and make sure that they take the placement
seriously.
The pupil’s behaviour is evaluated by the
adult responsible for the placement.
How to write the work experience
report ?
When the pupils have completed their placement, they will be asked to
write a report ( of about 1000 words) and hand over -after the All
Saints Holidays- to Mrs Fouseka.
This report may be drafted in English, French or German and has to be
divided into three sections :
1 - An overview of the characteristics of the company or the organization
2 - A detailed outline of their activity during the placement and
3 – An assessment about what this training course has offered to them.
What the evaluation table is it for ?
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An evaluation table is provided to the pupils at the begining of
the work experience and it has to be given to the adult in
charge of the internship.
It will allows him/her to evaluate different aspects of the pupils
behaviour and skills.
It will prove that the pupils has correctly undertaken his/her
placement.
Once the work experience is over, the table must be
posted/mailed by the company to Mrs Fouseka.
Thanks to the table and the report, the school will be allowed to
provide a work experience certificate to the pupils.
The work experience certificate
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To get a work experience certificate from the
school, the pupils must hand over:
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a work experience report and
An evaluation table with favourable comments
from the adult responsible for the internship.
The certificate will be provided at the end of the
school year.
Some examples of work-experience
placements
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Embassies,
European Commission, the Parliament, …
NGO based in all continents
Lawyers’ practices, architects’ studios,
animal clinics ,
Natutal Science Institutes, laboratories,
Hospitals, Old people homes, nurseries
Hotels, museums, tourist-offices,
Airlines, newspapers, broadcasting,
Nato, WTO, …
Banks, insurance-cie, administrations,
Pharmaceutical cie,
Car-constructing cie, factories,…
Examples of possible work experience, …
. . . Student’s comments…
Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique
The organisation of work in a team and as an individual was a hard lesson to learn,
but it was very effective. I even participated in an all-night survey of one kilometre
of forest, which was a unique experience.
 Chalude, Vandecapelle & Associates
I was not expecting to learn very much in these two weeks, except how to make coffee
and make photocopies. I was wrong.
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De Smet & Whaley Architects
I think it was a very useful and fruitful experience. It is funny how now I look at
buildings, whether simple or complicated ones, from an architectural point of
view.
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Institut Jules Bordet
Ce stage compte beaucoup pour moi. Je ne m'attendais pas à vivre une
expérience aussi enrichissante et de me retrouver au bloc
opératoire, face à la réalité.
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Student’s comments…
Cabinet vétérinaire à Dworp
Mes attentes ont été dépassées parce que j’ai pu assister à des opérations auxquelles je
ne m’attendais pas.
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Bosch Rexroth
J’étais un peu déçue par les tâches monotones, mais en parlant avec d’autres
stagiaires, j’ai découvert que c’est absolument normal.
 Council of the European Union
The knowledge , experience and know-how learned and gained during these two
weeks are most certainly not something readily available in textbooks. The
traineeship was definitely not a waste of my vacation period, however greatly I
might prize the latter.
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Studio legale Vantaggiato - Lecce - italy
Choose a job that interests you, even if it may not be your future ambition.You have to
take into consideretion that 2 weeks can be a long time if you do not do something
which you like.
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Agenda 2014-2015
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January :
1. the career adviser introduce the work experience project to the pupils.
2. The relevant documents (ex : contracts, ptt..) are put online on the school website
(secondary school/orientation/work experience)
From January to May : the pupils and their parents are searching for a placement on
themselves. The three hard copies of the contracts must be posted to Mrs Fouseka as
soon as possible at School. The pupils and the parents will be informed -when necessaryby the school website and by the APEEE mailing list.
End of May: deadline for receiving the contracts.
June : administration of the special cases (ex ; Eurocontrol, European Council…)
Last week of June – first week of July : period recommended by the school to schedule
the work experience (the school is still open, so that it is possible to intervene in case of
problems). Otherwise, work experience can be scheduled later on the summer holidays.
From September to All saints Holidays : writing the work experience report and
collecting the evaluation table from the adult responsible for the placement.
The work experience certificates will be delivered before the end of school year.
Need more information ?
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Contact your career adviser or
Consult EEB3 website : secondary
school/orientation/work experience
Contact Mrs Fouseka :
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marifouse@gmail.com / classroom B02
This presentation has been designed:
by Mr Frantz Killius, work experience coordinator in EEB3
from 2011 till 2014 and
modified by Mrs Fouseka, work experience coordinator
from 2014-2015.