Hands-On Learning Benefits Students & Employers!
Benefits for Employers
- Students look to schools to teach them academic and workplace skills.
- Students look to employers to give them a chance to prove themselves in real-life work settings.
- There are numerous benefits for employers who offer students work experience.
Building the Talent Pool
- Work experiences create better-prepared workers, and reduce time-consuming and costly recruiting, hiring and training efforts.
- Work experiences help enhance the work ethic in students, and provide valuable lessons, such as pride in a job well done, punctuality, dependability and honesty.
Boosting the Employee Satisfaction Quotient
- Employees who work with students gain new leadership and interpersonal skills.
- Employees say their morale is improved and they enjoy the enthusiasm of youth.
- Work experiences reinforce the organization's commitment to its workers and their families, by benefiting the children of employees.
It Makes Economic Sense
- Youth unemployment is persistently higher than the adult rate, while employers scramble to find good and committed employees.
- Giving students work experience helps promote a variety of career choices.
- It also enlarges the pool of qualified workers in sectors with shortages of skilled employees.
Stronger Communities, Better Schools
- When employers team up with schools, the exchange of information and expertise helps enhance the curriculum and integrate classroom and workplace learning.
- Students benefit when employers and schools work together.
- Co-operation instils a strong sense that "this is my community".
The Bottom Line
When students make a successful transition from school to work, it's good for all of us - our society, our economy, our workplaces, and, most of all, our students.
Source: Passport to Prosperity: The Provincial Partnership Council, Ontario Ministry of Education, Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities