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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.

Work Experience Guide

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

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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.

Pathways Team

Joel Chandler

Future Pathways, Vocational Coordinator (External Studies)

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)

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