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Kick-start your career with work experience

Kick-start your career with work experience

Work experience placements offer a great opportunity to develop real skills in a practical, working farming and growing environment.

Find out more about the value of work experience with this video from Pathway CTM.

Work experience placements can help you find a role for life in farming and growing.

Removing barriers to work experience

As the home of skills, careers and professionalism in farming and growing, we're highlighting the exciting opportunities in agriculture and horticulture in England.

Together with a cross-industry working group, we are producing and delivering on a careers action plan for the industry. The group has identified the delivery of quality work experience as a key tool to attract new entrants and career changers into farming and growing.

Organisations who'd like to support the careers action plan, including through work experience, are invited to contact TIAH Careers Manager Ruthie Peterson at ruthie@tiah.org.

Opinions on work placements

Students taking part in lessons at Susan's Farm, Carlisle.
Susan’s Farm Education Manager Helen Ward discusses the benefits of work experience placements.
Jhunjun Salas, head herdsman at Saltby Dairy Unit, with Jess Morgan and Ellie Brown.
Two second-year students tell us about their experiences being on work placement at Saltby farm.
Dairy farmer Gaynor Wellwood tells us about her extensive experience of offering work experience at her farm in Leicestershire. 
Dairy farmer Gaynor Wellwood tells us about her extensive experience of offering work experience at her farm. 
It is important to make the most of your time when on a work experience placement. Shutterstock.com/tonton
Work experience can be exciting and rewarding, but it's vital to most of your time on farm. ​

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