These are the Terms & Conditions for the calendar year 2010 for Placement Trust’s Work Experience Programmes. Placement Trust must receive a signed copy of the full document upon enrolment. Please read the complete document of these Terms & Conditions carefully before signing and returning them. It contains important information that you should know before you enroll to our program.
If you consider starting a placement in 2010, make sure you apply with the forms for 2010 (available from 1 November 2010)
1 WORK EXPERIENCE PROGRAMMES: GENERAL INFORMATION
WEP
| What? |
Work experience placements |
| Who? | Students or Graduates aged 18-35 |
| Where? |
London, U.K. |
| Cost? | £ 260 (£40 to start the application £220 at the time of the confirmation) |
1.1 Programme Description
Work Experience Programs in the UK are an excellent opportunity for young people to improve their communication skills and to gain insight in a professional work environment by actively taking part in the daily activities of a company. Placements can be found in many different areas subject to skills, background and availability. Applicants can indicate their preferences on the enrolment form. Placement Trust will advise applicants on individual opportunities after discussing the application in an initial telephone conversation. Please note that placements are mainly unpaid, but the majority of employers pay a contribution towards work-related lunch- and travel costs.
1.2 Who can apply
Work Experience Program is designed for students and recent graduates aged between 18 – 35 and who are interested in a work experience placement relevant to their educational background, previous training and vocational skills. Applicants also need to be motivated, flexible, and have good communication skills.
1.3 Applications
Work Experience Programs are open for enrolment all year. Placement Trust allows themselves 6 weeks to find a suitable placement. Please, bear this in mind and send the application in time. If applications are sent 6 weeks prior to preferred starting date, chances are we can only confirm a placement in the last week, leaving the applicant little time to prepare for departure. Placement Trust normally do not start applications more than 4 months in advance. The minimum duration of our placements for this program is 6 weeks; the maximum is 12 months. Placement Trust mainly organize full-time placements. Some placement preferences require a longer minimum stay.
| January to May | At least 6 weeks in advance |
| June to August | At least 10 weeks in advance |
| September to December |
At least 6 weeks in advance |
Please bear in mind that during short placements there will not be a lot of opportunity to be trained for complicated tasks and this will influence the tasks the applicant will be offered, regardless of background and skills.
1.4 Placement Procedure
a)Applications will be allocated to a personal adviser (Business Development Officer) within Placement Trust. The adviser will contact the applicant at least six weeks prior to the requested starting date for a telephone interview (10 weeks for a placement start in June/July/August), provided we have received the application in time. The purpose of this interview is to discuss placement preferences as well as possible opportunities or alternatives. It is therefore necessary to provide us with a daytime telephone number on which the applicant is available most of the times. If this is not possible it is the applicant’s responsibility to contact our organization for an interview.
b)Each applicant must provide us with an e-mail address that they can access from any Internet computer (e.g. Yahoo), in addition to post address and telephone number. E-mail will be used in case Placement Trust cannot reach the applicant by phone, if Placement Trust need to send urgent documents, to contact them outside working hours, and to send invitations for our activities.
c)After the initial telephone interview we will e-mail a summary of the telephone conversation and start to search for a suitable work experience placement. As soon as an employer has shown interest in an application Placement Trust will provide a ‘Job Description’ followed in most cases by a telephone interview with the potential employer. This interview will help to get an insight into the nature of the company and will enable to clarify any queries. Date and time of the interview will be agreed beforehand.
d)When a telephone interview has been successful Placement Trust will inform the applicant about the outcome normally within a couple of days. The placement offer should not be rejected unless the natures of the placement and/or key tasks differ significantly from those discussed. If the applicant does not accept a suitable placement offer Placement Trust will only offer one more alternative placement before the applicant may be withdrawn from the program and lose the registration fee as set out in section 5.
2 REGISTRATION
2.1 Checklist
To ensure that you have a full enrolment, please use the checklist enclosed in the application pack. Any missing document will cause delay to the application.
| Checklist | Use this as a cover for the application and tick off the documents as you are enclosing them in the required order. |
| Enrolment form | Please type or write in BLOCK LETTERS. Fill out all the required information to avoid delays in the application. |
| Signed Terms & Conditions | Placement Trust need to make sure that the applicant has carefully read and understood these Terms & Conditions. |
| CV & Photo (English, typed, max. size 2 A4’s) |
Enclose the Curriculum Vitae and attach a passport size photo. Read our document on British CV writing for more advice, or visit: http://europass.cedefop.eu.int/ |
| Cover letter (English, typed, maximum size 1 A4) |
This is a letter in which the applicant explains the motivation to come for work experience. The applicant can highlight some achievements of the CV that deserve more explanation. |
| Payment form/Proof of payment |
Please complete the payment form. If you pay by bank transfer, please enclose the copy of proof of payment. |
2.2 Further requirements
Our employers select suitable candidates on the basis of the CV and cover letter. Therefore it is important that these documents look professional and contain sufficient information to minimize chance of rejection due to lack of information. The CV should be clearly structured in sections: Personal Details, Educational Background, Work Experience, Skills (Languages, Computer, other), and Others (e.g. hobbies, special achievements, interests). CVs must include dates (month & year) for each educational and professional activity. The cover letter should be typed as a formal letter, well structured and professional. It can address the reader as “Dear Sir, Madam,”. Please ask us for more information if unsure.
Telephone interviews will be held English, depending on the requirement. This will be the only way for Placement Trust and for the employer to judge the candidate’s languages skills and decide on suitable tasks. Therefore, the candidate has to do the interview, without help in translation. Failure to abide by this rule may result in unsatisfactory placement arrangements where the candidate will be uncomfortable with tasks at an inappropriate level.
Fast communication is essential to secure an offer for the candidate. Work Experience Programs are competitive and applicants will miss opportunities if they fail to respond quickly. Placement Trust expect applicants to reply to our messages within 48 hours. Applicants who have planned holidays should still be reachable, or accept the possibility of delay in their application and missing out on opportunities. Placement Trust require e-mail address for each applicant to ensure fast delivery of urgent documents.
Upon placement confirmation Placement Trust will resend the job description with an agreement slip by fax or e-mail. Placement Trust must have received the signed job description on the fifth working day after confirmation. Failure may result in withdrawal of the offer and financial consequences as described in the section ‘Cancellation/Postponement’
Placement Trust strongly discourage applicants to make arrangements for travel and accommodation prior to confirmation of an offer. Placement Trust accepts no liability for transport, accommodation, or other costs in this matter by any means. Candidates are only covered by the Employer Liability Insurance during working hours.
Please inform to Placement Trust if you are looking for work placements/employment via other ways in addition to our WEP, to avoid complications.
3 PROGRAMME FEE & SERVICES
3.1 Costs
Work Experience Program UK £ 260 (£40 to open the application £220 at the time of the confirmation)
| Advice | The application will be allocated to the applicant’s personal adviser in the Placement Trust Team. The adviser will find a suitable placement and can advise on related issues, such as CV-writing, general accommodation advice, and interview techniques. |
| Accommodation |
Placement Trust team will coach you and support you in order to find the most suitable accommodation, so the distance would be reasonable from your Work Placement to Home, and also taking care of the area and the price you are paying for it. |
| Job Description | Placement Trust will provide applicants with a job description of the potential placement prior to telephone interview with employers, including background information, key tasks, requirements, possible remuneration arrangements etc. |
| Placement | The application will be matched against potential placement opportunities. The adviser will introduce the applicant to suitable employers and arrange a telephone interview with an interested employer. |
| Confirmation pack | Upon confirmation of a placement the applicant will receive a confirmation pack containing information to prepare for the WEP. |
| Monitoring | Placement Trust staff will be available for advice during the placement. (S)he will contact the applicant during the first and last week. If the applicant stays longer than 8 weeks, the personal adviser will visit the applicant to check on progress and satisfaction. If the applicant needs more advice/support outside these arrangements they can contact their adviser. |
| Activities | During the placement applicants will receive invitations by e-mail for activities organized by Placement Trust, such as Pub Together (every fortnight), guided city walks, dinner parties, and other activities. These are informal activities offering applicants the opportunity to make friends and get to know the city. |
3.3 Language Course
Participants can attend language classes either prior to their internship or simultaneously to the work experience placement (evening classes). If, during their placement, an applicant needs to leave the office before official closing hours to attend the language course, the placement employer needs to agree.
3.4 Payment details
The fee does not include transport and accommodation costs (see section ‘Program Fee’). The full program fee is to be paid upon enrolment.
Electronic Bank Transfer/ Pay Pal
Payments must be made in Great Brittan Pounds quoting Ref. WEP/candidate name. When paying by bank transfer, the bank charges must be added to the fee.
Failure to pay the full fee or bank charges will result in a hold on the application until the outstanding balance has been paid.
If an application needs to be stopped, applicants have two options: cancellation or postponement. Either of them has to be confirmed by the candidate in writing.
Company: Trident Transnational LTD
Bank: Barclays Bank PLC
City: London
Country: England
International transaction
IBAN: IBANGB42BARC20264663669289
Swift: BARCGB22
U.K. transaction
Sort Code: 202646
Account: 63669289
| Description: Work Experience Program | APPLICATION £40 |
| Description: Work Experience Program | CONFIRMATION £220 |
4 POSTPONEMENT & CANCELLATIONS
Placement Trust offer the possibility to postpone the application up to one year from the day of postponement. In this case Placement Trust keep the fee and the enrolment pack. In this way, Placement Trust can re-open the application as soon as the candidate asks us, provided the new preferred starting date is within one calendar year from postponement. If the applicant still decides to cancel or cannot come back within a year, the postponement will be transferred to cancellation subject to the rules set out below (section 5.2). It is the candidate’s responsibility to notify us of reopening or cancelling the application. The advantage of postponement is that applicants who can come back within a year need not re-send a full application. Placement Trust may ask for an updated CV, and for a signed agreement of the Terms & Conditions if reopening the application in a new calendar year. By keeping the fee on our side we can avoid bank charges and administration costs caused by sending money over and back to cancel and reopen the application. After one calendar year the application will be archived and the applicant will have to enroll as a new candidate.
Candidates who cannot confirm acceptance of a placement offer within 5 working days have to inform us of the reason. Placement Trust may put the application on a temporary hold where we feel this is justified. In any case, we allow ourselves to offer the placement to another candidate after 5 working days if we have not received the signed job description. Placement Trust do not guarantee to keep the placement available for a candidate longer than 5 working days after the offer.
4.1 Cancellation
Placement Trust apply the following cancellation policy to independent applicants:
| Cancellation | Independent Applicants |
| Cancellation prior to opening application | Refund minus £25 cancellation administration fee |
| Cancellation after initial interview (with Placement adviser) |
Refund minus £30 non-refundable deposit |
| Cancellation after applicant’s file forwarded to interested suitable employer with attention to arrange an interview with | Refund minus £30 non-refundable deposit and cancellation fee (1) |
| Cancellation after interview with employer, regardless of outcome | Refund minus £30 non-refundable deposit and cancellation fee (1) |
(All refunds are minus bank charges, which are not included in the cancellation fees above)
Placed candidates who get dismissed by the employer due to poor attitude or indecent behavior will not have another placement arranged. Placement Trust does hold responsibility of arranging a substitute work experience placement in case of ending the placement by both the employer and candidate in agreement due to reasonable circumstances at least ten weeks before agreed finishing date.
If you are unsure about any of the terms and conditions of the Work Experience Programs, feel free to contact Placement Trust for further information.
IMPORTANT!These are the Terms & Conditions for the calendar year 2010 for Placement Trust’s Work Experience Programmes. Placement Trust must receive a signed copy of the full document upon enrolment. Please read the complete document of these Terms & Conditions carefully before signing and returning them. It contains important information that you should know before you enroll to our program.
If you consider starting a placement in 2010, make sure you apply with the forms for 2010 (available from 1 November 2010)
2 WORK EXPERIENCE PROGRAMMES: GENERAL INFORMATION
WEP
| What? | Work experience placements |
| Who? | Students or Graduates aged 18-35 |
| Where? | London, U.K. |
| Cost? | £ 260 (£40 to start the application £220 at the time of the confirmation) |
2.1 Programme Description
Work Experience Programs in the UK are an excellent opportunity for young people to improve their communication skills and to gain insight in a professional work environment by actively taking part in the daily activities of a company. Placements can be found in many different areas subject to skills, background and availability. Applicants can indicate their preferences on the enrolment form. Placement Trust will advise applicants on individual opportunities after discussing the application in an initial telephone conversation. Please note that placements are mainly unpaid, but the majority of employers pay a contribution towards work-related lunch- and travel costs.
Work Experience Program is designed for students and recent graduates aged between 18 – 35 and who are interested in a work experience placement relevant to their educational background, previous training and vocational skills. Applicants also need to be motivated, flexible, and have good communication skills.
Work Experience Programs are open for enrolment all year. Placement Trust allows themselves 6 weeks to find a suitable placement. Please, bear this in mind and send the application in time. If applications are sent 6 weeks prior to preferred starting date, chances are we can only confirm a placement in the last week, leaving the applicant little time to prepare for departure. Placement Trust normally do not start applications more than 4 months in advance. The minimum duration of our placements for this program is 6 weeks; the maximum is 12 months. Placement Trust mainly organize full-time placements. Some placement preferences require a longer minimum stay.
| January to May | At least 6 weeks in advance |
| June to August | At least 10 weeks in advance |
| September to December | At least 6 weeks in advance |
Please bear in mind that during short placements there will not be a lot of opportunity to be trained for complicated tasks and this will influence the tasks the applicant will be offered, regardless of background and skills.
a)Applications will be allocated to a personal adviser (Business Development Officer) within Placement Trust. The adviser will contact the applicant at least six weeks prior to the requested starting date for a telephone interview (10 weeks for a placement start in June/July/August), provided we have received the application in time. The purpose of this interview is to discuss placement preferences as well as possible opportunities or alternatives. It is therefore necessary to provide us with a daytime telephone number on which the applicant is available most of the times. If this is not possible it is the applicant’s responsibility to contact our organization for an interview.
b)Each applicant must provide us with an e-mail address that they can access from any Internet computer (e.g. Yahoo), in addition to post address and telephone number. E-mail will be used in case Placement Trust cannot reach the applicant by phone, if Placement Trust need to send urgent documents, to contact them outside working hours, and to send invitations for our activities.
c)After the initial telephone interview we will e-mail a summary of the telephone conversation and start to search for a suitable work experience placement. As soon as an employer has shown interest in an application Placement Trust will provide a ‘Job Description’ followed in most cases by a telephone interview with the potential employer. This interview will help to get an insight into the nature of the company and will enable to clarify any queries. Date and time of the interview will be agreed beforehand.
d)When a telephone interview has been successful Placement Trust will inform the applicant about the outcome normally within a couple of days. The placement offer should not be rejected unless the natures of the placement and/or key tasks differ significantly from those discussed. If the applicant does not accept a suitable placement offer Placement Trust will only offer one more alternative placement before the applicant may be withdrawn from the program and lose the registration fee as set out in section 5.
To ensure that you have a full enrolment, please use the checklist enclosed in the application pack. Any missing document will cause delay to the application.
| Checklist | Use this as a cover for the application and tick off the documents as you are enclosing them in the required order. |
| Enrolment form | Please type or write in BLOCK LETTERS. Fill out all the required information to avoid delays in the application. |
| Signed Terms & Conditions | Placement Trust need to make sure that the applicant has carefully read and understood these Terms & Conditions. |
| CV & Photo (English, typed, max. size 2 A4’s) |
Enclose the Curriculum Vitae and attach a passport size photo. Read our document on British CV writing for more advice, or visit: http://europass.cedefop.eu.int/ |
| Cover letter (English, typed, maximum size 1 A4) |
This is a letter in which the applicant explains the motivation to come for work experience. The applicant can highlight some achievements of the CV that deserve more explanation. |
| Payment form/Proof of payment | Please complete the payment form. If you pay by bank transfer, please enclose the copy of proof of payment. |
Our employers select suitable candidates on the basis of the CV and cover letter. Therefore it is important that these documents look professional and contain sufficient information to minimize chance of rejection due to lack of information. The CV should be clearly structured in sections: Personal Details, Educational Background, Work Experience, Skills (Languages, Computer, other), and Others (e.g. hobbies, special achievements, interests). CVs must include dates (month & year) for each educational and professional activity. The cover letter should be typed as a formal letter, well structured and professional. It can address the reader as “Dear Sir, Madam,”. Please ask us for more information if unsure.
Telephone interviews will be held English, depending on the requirement. This will be the only way for Placement Trust and for the employer to judge the candidate’s languages skills and decide on suitable tasks. Therefore, the candidate has to do the interview, without help in translation. Failure to abide by this rule may result in unsatisfactory placement arrangements where the candidate will be uncomfortable with tasks at an inappropriate level.
Fast communication is essential to secure an offer for the candidate. Work Experience Programs are competitive and applicants will miss opportunities if they fail to respond quickly. Placement Trust expect applicants to reply to our messages within 48 hours. Applicants who have planned holidays should still be reachable, or accept the possibility of delay in their application and missing out on opportunities. Placement Trust require e-mail address for each applicant to ensure fast delivery of urgent documents.
Upon placement confirmation Placement Trust will resend the job description with an agreement slip by fax or e-mail. Placement Trust must have received the signed job description on the fifth working day after confirmation. Failure may result in withdrawal of the offer and financial consequences as described in the section ‘Cancellation/Postponement’
Placement Trust strongly discourage applicants to make arrangements for travel and accommodation prior to confirmation of an offer. Placement Trust accepts no liability for transport, accommodation, or other costs in this matter by any means. Candidates are only covered by the Employer Liability Insurance during working hours.
Please inform to Placement Trust if you are looking for work placements/employment via other ways in addition to our WEP, to avoid complications.
4.1 Costs
Work Experience Program UK £ 260 (£40 to open the application £220 at the time of the confirmation)
| Advice | The application will be allocated to the applicant’s personal adviser in the Placement Trust Team. The adviser will find a suitable placement and can advise on related issues, such as CV-writing, general accommodation advice, and interview techniques. |
| Accommodation | Placement Trust team will coach you and support you in order to find the most suitable accommodation, so the distance would be reasonable from your Work Placement to Home, and also taking care of the area and the price you are paying for it. |
| Job Description | Placement Trust will provide applicants with a job description of the potential placement prior to telephone interview with employers, including background information, key tasks, requirements, possible remuneration arrangements etc. |
| Placement | The application will be matched against potential placement opportunities. The adviser will introduce the applicant to suitable employers and arrange a telephone interview with an interested employer. |
| Confirmation pack | Upon confirmation of a placement the applicant will receive a confirmation pack containing information to prepare for the WEP. |
| Monitoring | Placement Trust staff will be available for advice during the placement. (S)he will contact the applicant during the first and last week. If the applicant stays longer than 8 weeks, the personal adviser will visit the applicant to check on progress and satisfaction. If the applicant needs more advice/support outside these arrangements they can contact their adviser. |
| Activities | During the placement applicants will receive invitations by e-mail for activities organized by Placement Trust, such as Pub Together (every fortnight), guided city walks, dinner parties, and other activities. These are informal activities offering applicants the opportunity to make friends and get to know the city. |
Participants can attend language classes either prior to their internship or simultaneously to the work experience placement (evening classes). If, during their placement, an applicant needs to leave the office before official closing hours to attend the language course, the placement employer needs to agree.
The fee does not include transport and accommodation costs (see section ‘Program Fee’). The full program fee is to be paid upon enrolment.
Electronic Bank Transfer/ Pay Pal
Payments must be made in Great Brittan Pounds quoting Ref. WEP/candidate name. When paying by bank transfer, the bank charges must be added to the fee.
Failure to pay the full fee or bank charges will result in a hold on the application until the outstanding balance has been paid.
If an application needs to be stopped, applicants have two options: cancellation or postponement. Either of them has to be confirmed by the candidate in writing.
Company: Trident Transnational LTDBank: Barclays Bank PLC
City: London
Country: England
International transaction IBAN: IBANGB42BARC20264663669289
Swift: BARCGB22
U.K. transactionSort Code: 202646
Account: 63669289
| Description: Work Experience Program | APPLICATION £40 |
| Description: Work Experience Program | CONFIRMATION £220 |
5 POSTPONEMENT & CANCELLATIONS
Placement Trust offer the possibility to postpone the application up to one year from the day of postponement. In this case Placement Trust keep the fee and the enrolment pack. In this way, Placement Trust can re-open the application as soon as the candidate asks us, provided the new preferred starting date is within one calendar year from postponement. If the applicant still decides to cancel or cannot come back within a year, the postponement will be transferred to cancellation subject to the rules set out below (section 5.2). It is the candidate’s responsibility to notify us of reopening or cancelling the application. The advantage of postponement is that applicants who can come back within a year need not re-send a full application. Placement Trust may ask for an updated CV, and for a signed agreement of the Terms & Conditions if reopening the application in a new calendar year. By keeping the fee on our side we can avoid bank charges and administration costs caused by sending money over and back to cancel and reopen the application. After one calendar year the application will be archived and the applicant will have to enroll as a new candidate.
Candidates who cannot confirm acceptance of a placement offer within 5 working days have to inform us of the reason. Placement Trust may put the application on a temporary hold where we feel this is justified. In any case, we allow ourselves to offer the placement to another candidate after 5 working days if we have not received the signed job description. Placement Trust do not guarantee to keep the placement available for a candidate longer than 5 working days after the offer.
Placement Trust apply the following cancellation policy to independent applicants:
| Cancellation | Independent Applicants |
| Cancellation prior to opening application | Refund minus £25 cancellation administration fee |
| Cancellation after initial interview (with Placement adviser) |
Refund minus £30 non-refundable deposit |
| Cancellation after applicant’s file forwarded to interested suitable employer with attention to arrange an interview with | Refund minus £30 non-refundable deposit and cancellation fee (1) |
| Cancellation after interview with employer, regardless of outcome | Refund minus £30 non-refundable deposit and cancellation fee (1) |
(All refunds are minus bank charges, which are not included in the cancellation fees above)
Placed candidates who get dismissed by the employer due to poor attitude or indecent behavior will not have another placement arranged. Placement Trust does hold responsibility of arranging a substitute work experience placement in case of ending the placement by both the employer and candidate in agreement due to reasonable circumstances at least ten weeks before agreed finishing date.
If you are unsure about any of the terms and conditions of the Work Experience Programs, feel free to contact Placement Trust for further information
6 INFORMATION
Declaration
I declare that I have read and fully understood the Terms & Conditions for Placement Trust’s Work Experience Programs 2010, and that I agree with them.
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