At a lively and focused event on Wednesday 19th May, business administration students from Hackney Community College gave feedback to a range of employers on their work placements.
Our students have undertaken a placements with a varied range of organisations this year. This event gave them a chance to present back to those organisations what they have learned from the work experience and how they will use the skills in the future.
The event also provides a vital forum opportunity for the companies to tell the college about the skills they need new recruits to have – how the curriculum can be shaped towards supporting the needs of employers. It’s also a valuable opportunity for the students to network with potential employers.
Students prepared very strong presentations and talked about the benefits of the work experience in helping them to develop their skills for employment.
One of the employers that took a placement student for the first time this year, said: “St Hilda’s has enjoyed a working partnership with the college and has had some wonderful, motivated, hard working and professional young people from the college working on placement. We have found the students incredibly helpful and a great asset to our organisation.”
One of our students BARBARA LAZARO said about the NVQ course:-
The whole course has been thoroughly enjoyable particularly in enhancing my communications skills. I delivered a PowerPoint presentation to the class about my country of birth – Poland. I really enjoyed telling everyone about my country and gained so much confidence in speaking in front of a large group as well as learning so many IT skills. Today I am speaking to a group of employers and am able to speak clearly and with confidence. Throughout the course I have improved my IT skills as well as learning new programmes and was pleased to put all of my learning into practise in my work placement, which has been fantastic.
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