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39/ 2003
Bonn, 23.10.2003
The job starts at school with "student plant work experience"
The job starts at school with "student plant work experience".
The BIBB survey also found that
- 82% of the enterprises, most of them large enterprises and enterprises in the manufacturing, commercial, banking and insurance industries, always or often assigned their traineeship workplaces to intermediate school students, while 69% - mostly small and medium-sized or craft enterprises - focus more on lower secondary school students.
- Four out of five enterprises see the traineeship workplaces they offer as an investment in the future, and one in five even detects a direct benefit for the enterprise. Only 20% see this work experience as a necessary but annoying duty.
- Although the work experience is part of the core area of vocational orientation in the Schools, only 20% of the enterprises polled regard the preparedness of the students for the work experience as "good" while two-thirds evaluate it as "satisfactory" and every seventh enterprise (14%) regards it as "poor".
- More than half the enterprises providing training are open to an intensification of contacts between school and enterprises, although less than half already maintain regular contacts going beyond the offer to provide traineeship workplaces.
The BIBB presents further results of the survey in Informationen Nr. 25 of the Referenz-Betriebs-System, "Schülerpraktika aus der Sicht der Betriebe", which can be found on the Internet at www.bibb.de/redaktion/rbs
Information on the project "The job starts at school. The importance of school plant work experience in the job orientation phase" can be obtained at BIBB from Thomas Bergzog, e-mail bergzog@bibb.de
