Changing Work Placement
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 12:47 am
So currently I'm studying my diploma, and doing my vocational placement at a school kindy. It's great the kids are good to work with. I do prefer, however, to work in a centre. This kindy was not my first choice, but a lot of the centres were already booked up with vocational placement students so they didn't have room to take me on this year. I have to do another 120 hours of placement next year. I'm just wondering, should I try and get my placement at a centre next year, or just continue with the kindy? I'm really torn in half about this and not sure what to do. When I finish my diploma, I want to work at a centre as a group leader. Working in this kindy now feels too much like being an assistant, which I hate. The teachers really dictate to you what they want done, which is fine for a placement, but I wouldn't want to work there. Also, if I did do my placement at a centre next year, I would think I would have more of a chance of being offered paid work by that centre, which is what I really want.
I don't currently have any work references to get a job, so I really need to either continue on at the kindy in the hope that they give me a reference at the end of it then look for jobs next year, or go on a placement at a centre next year then hopefully get offered a job at the end of it. Which would be a better way to go? Help please!
I don't currently have any work references to get a job, so I really need to either continue on at the kindy in the hope that they give me a reference at the end of it then look for jobs next year, or go on a placement at a centre next year then hopefully get offered a job at the end of it. Which would be a better way to go? Help please!
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