Writing a Report on Your Work Experience Placement

Work experience should be fun and should give you a good understanding of the field your are allocated to. Your work experience may be in an area you have chosen or one that is allocated to you by someone else. You will probably do work experience as a student. Today, most students are asked to write a report on their work experience placement.

So, how should you do that? Firstly, be aware of any guidelines that are required to be followed. Usually your college or university will issue you with these guidelines and any structure that they want you to follow. It is important to follow these guidelines, as you will be assessed according to how well you fulfil these and you may even be allocated marks against this piece of writing, so it wise to take it seriously.

You could produce a report on your placement generally is an overview of what you have done during the placement and in relation to the organization you have worked in. Depending on where your placement was, you may need to ask permission from that particular company if you want to include any information about them.
There are a number of areas you can cover in your report. You could start by outlining some details on the organization you have been working in. For example:

• What is the nature of the organization? - healthcare, computing etc
• Organizational strengths and weaknesses
• How the organization communicates
• Ways in which the government impacts on the organization e.g. NHS
• Who are the main customers?
You could then outline your work in the organization. For example:
• How does the work you are doing fit in with the organization? E.g. healthcare assistant in the NHS
• Any experiences you had, positive or negative whilst working there - remember this is about experience!
• Communication channels with you and others
• Any efficiencies that could be introduced
• What impacted on you performing your job?
• What did you learn?

This report should be structured in a logical way and be easy to read.

Another way of presenting information on your work experience is through a learning diary or keeping a log. This could be simply recording what you have done on work experience and perhaps reflecting on this and what you learnt from it. This diary or log is a valuable way of gaining information that you may need when you come to write up a report on your placement. It is important to record events as they happen in your diary or log as this means you capture the emotional and 'real' experience at the time rather than trying to remember much later after the fact.

A diary or log can also be useful to demonstrate to your tutor the work you have undertaken and act as a record of events. It is up to you how you maintain this diary or log. You may wish to hand write it, type it on a computer or record it on tape. It is entirely up to you. Whichever way you choose, ensure it is safe and kept confidential as it may contain information about other people.

As with all academic pieces of writing ensure that you undertake a proofread before you submit. Check that spelling, grammar and punctuation are correct to ensure you do not loose vital marks!

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