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Persevere - there was a guy on here last year who made a million and one threads about how difficult he was finding getting work experience (and really if you post that once, there's not much more advice people can reply with a further 4/5/6 times...). The amount of time he wasted on here complaining when he could have been contacting schools and things was ridiculous.
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Contact your old school(s) and colleges first and foremost. If they don't reply or come back with a no, then widen your search -- contact every school that you can reasonably travel to: if you can get to it on a bus within 45 mins-an hour, contact them. If you can drive and have access to a car? Widen your search even further, etc.
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Wrte a polite e-mail and attach a customised version of your CV that is tailored to the education sector -- put all your relevant work experience in schools etc. down on it and customise your info section with why you're wanting to get experience in schools i.e. for a PGCE application or whatever.
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Make sure the e-mail is SHORT. The best advice I have ever been given! The receptionist will probably forward your e-mail on to a teacher or a head of something or other. And these people are busy. If your e-mail is 1000 words long it will either be ignored completely, or put off for a while, as it takes too long to read and reply to when they have 3792 other stuff to read/reply to/do. Keep your initial e-mail as short as possible and attach your CV with the rest of the details on instead.
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Give them a chance to reply. I'd wait about 2 weeks. If no reply, follow up with a phone call or other e-mail. If still no response, give in on that school and find another.
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Persevere - there was a guy on here last year who made a million and one threads about how difficult he was finding getting work experience (and really if you post that once, there's not much more advice people can reply with a further 4/5/6 times...). The amount of time he wasted on here complaining when he could have been contacting schools and things was ridiculous.
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Contact your old school(s) and colleges first and foremost. If they don't reply or come back with a no, then widen your search -- contact every school that you can reasonably travel to: if you can get to it on a bus within 45 mins-an hour, contact them. If you can drive and have access to a car? Widen your search even further, etc.
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Wrte a polite e-mail and attach a customised version of your CV that is tailored to the education sector -- put all your relevant work experience in schools etc. down on it and customise your info section with why you're wanting to get experience in schools i.e. for a PGCE application or whatever.
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Make sure the e-mail is SHORT. The best advice I have ever been given! The receptionist will probably forward your e-mail on to a teacher or a head of something or other. And these people are busy. If your e-mail is 1000 words long it will either be ignored completely, or put off for a while, as it takes too long to read and reply to when they have 3792 other stuff to read/reply to/do. Keep your initial e-mail as short as possible and attach your CV with the rest of the details on instead.
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Give them a chance to reply. I'd wait about 2 weeks. If no reply, follow up with a phone call or other e-mail. If still no response, give in on that school and find another.
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