Skip To Main Content

Work Experience

Discover the Faith Difference in Career Pathways

What is Workplace Experience?

Workplace Experience (also known as Work Experience) is a short-term placement with an employer that gives students a taste of the real world of work. It’s a chance to explore career interests, build skills, and make connections that could shape your future.

2026 Year 10 Work Experience

Year 10 work experience has been timetabled to occur for 5 days during the period of
Monday 8th June to Friday 19th of June.

Applications need to be completed by Friday 1st May 2026.

Flexibility around dates is possible, please contact work.experience@faith.qld.edu.au to discuss options.

Bulimba Power Station (1954)

Why Do Workplace Experience?

Workplace Experience is more than just a week in a workplace — it’s a stepping stone to your future. Here’s why it matters:

  • Explore Careers
    Try out a job you're curious about and see if it’s the right fit for you.

  • Build Skills
    Learn valuable skills like communication, teamwork, time management, and problem-solving.

  • Boost Confidence
    Step into a professional environment and grow your independence and self-belief.

  • Make Connections
    Meet people in the industry and start building your network — these connections can lead to future opportunities.

  • Stand Out
    Add real-world experience to your resume, job applications, or university portfolio.

  • Pathway to Traineeships & Apprenticeships
    Workplace Experience can lead to School-Based Traineeships or Apprenticeships, where you work part-time while completing your studies. It’s a great way to earn, learn, and get qualified in your chosen field.

FAQ

Getting Started?

Here’s a step-by-step guide:

  • Choose Your Industry

Decide what kind of job or workplace you’d like to experience. Explore the industries in your area and what what opportunities exist.

Jobs and Skills Australia -- Home

  • Find a Host Employer

Reach out to your circle of contacts, use Google Maps to zoom into  your region and search for industies in your area. eg search for "fabrication", "health"

Google Maps

  • Create a Resume

A simple student resume shows employers you're serious. Include your contact details, school subjects, interests, and any skills or achievements. Your Future Pathways Team can help you build one.

  • Complete the Paperwork

  1. Work experience must be approved before commencement to ensure workplace insurance for employer and student are in place. 

  • Students completing work experience under the Year 10 Work Experience Program need to submit their application form for approval before Week 2 of Term 2. 
  • Students completing work experience outside of Term 2 need to ensure the application is submitted 4 weeks before starting 

  1. Students need to print the Agreement Form and the Risk Assessment Template.
     

  2. The Agreement Form must be completed and signed by the student, parent/guardian, and employer.
     

  3. The Risk Assessment must be completed by the employer.
     

  4. Once all documents are signed, they must be scanned or photographed and uploaded to the online application, along with the required details.

    Work Experience - Online Application

Approval Process 
  1. Faith CSDE Future Pathways team will ring the employer during the approval phase. 
     
  2. Faith CSDE Future Pathways team will review the risk assessment in line with that industry and proposed activities. 

Incomplete applications will not be accepted.

  1. Students, parents and employers will receive approval or non – approval via email. 

 
Prior to starting work 

  1. Students on or before the first day of work need to upload the following photos: 

  • Emergency Evacuation Plan / Muster plan 

  • First aid station 

  • Photo of student in the workplace with appropriate PPE if required 

Work Experience - Student Safety
 
During Work Experience 

  1. Employer may be contacted by staff during the work experience period
     

  2. Upon completion of work experience an online form will be completed by both the student and the employer 

Work Experience - Student Survey

 

 

 

Pathways Team

Joel Chandler

Joel Chandler

Future Pathways, Vocational Coordinator (External Studies)
Melissa Davies

Melissa Davies

Future Pathways Advisor

 "Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us"

Hebrew 12:1 (ESV)

Faith Pathways