All About WorkIT
What is WorkIT?
A unique, intuitive and innovative web enabled work experience program, designed to be used by:
- Students
- School work experience coordinators
- Local authority work experience administrators
- Health and Safety officers
WorkIT is interactive, secure and offers a real-time booking system. Students
can apply online for vacancies and administrators can allocate places to schools
through the website. The program creates all necessary documentation locally.
Students
Allows students to browse opportunities and use an interactive on-line booking
system which sends requests to the school coordinator. Other features include case
studies; a quiz called WorkIT Out to assist students who are not sure about what
kind of work experience they would like and integrated links with PlanIT Plus -
Scotland's most widely used careers and educational website.
Teachers
Provides an administrative and management resource to deal with student requests.
An integrated mail merge facility creates various letters e.g. parents, employers and
all the required legal documentation for health and safety purposes. Management
reports can be produced.
Once requests are accepted or declined at this level the number of opportunities
will automatically reduce and will be removed from the student zone when all vacancies
are taken.
Employers
Any employers wishing more information on the benefits of becoming involved and
details of local contacts please access the employers zone.
Local Authorities
The program provides a robust management tool for administering work experience.
The administrator can add and edit employer details, opportunities, risk assessments,
potential hazards, control measures and assign and allocate opportunities to schools.
In addition, it offers a facility allowing health & safety officers permission
to update relevant information on opportunities about health and safety issues e.g.
approval status, insurance, records of checks and visits and additional comments.
An integrated mail merge facility creating various letters and management reports
are produced. WorkIT also manages the self found request made by students.
The system can accommodate data transfer uploads from local authority and their
school management systems.