Find links to Australian and international work experience information and opportunities.

• Animal Jobs Direct
  

  This is the Australian page of a site providing information and advice about working with animals, details about jobs world wide, and voluntary animal welfare work.

• Victoria: Career Resource Guidelines for Young People with Disabilities
  

  This Victorian resource includes advice for preparing young people with disabilities for entry to the workforce and links to lessons, worksheets, a workplace safety video and to further support services.

• Defence Work Experience
  

  This site overs work experience placements for secondary school, university or other students over 15 years.

• Finding Yourself a Cadetship: A Guide for Indigenous Students
  

  This page provides links to documents including the guide. The guide has six steps to help students find out who they would like to work for and how to approach an employer themselves to ask for a cadetship.

• Queensland Work Experience Placements: Guidelines for Procedure
  

  This Queensland government site explains different models of secondary school work experience. It provides guidelines for schools, information about insurance, transport, interstate/territory work experience and links to relevant policies of the Department of Education and Training.

• IAESTE: Exchange of Students for Technical Experience
  

  This is an international site for international exchanges promoting technical work experience.

• Indigenous Cadetship Support
  

  Indigenous Cadetship Support (ICS) improves the professional employment prospects of Indigenous Australians. It links Indigenous tertiary students with employers in a cadetship arrangement.

• Learning through work experience
  

  This government site provides an introduction to work experience information and links to the work experience placement program and other government initiatives.

• SA Workplace Learning Guidelines
  

  The guidelines provide the basis for workplace learning for all South Australian students in both government and non-government schools. Guidelines include conditions, insurance, resources, forms, checklists, brochures, and policies to assist schools.

• Queensland: Student work experience
  

  This state government site provides information on policy and procedures, different models of work experience, work education programs and statistics from the Department of Education and Training.

• Study Adelaide
  

  Employment advice for international students studying in Adelaide South Australia, includes rights, taxation, how to find work and internships and working holiday visa information.

• Unimail
  

  Unimail publishes job guides for students in Australia and NZ; Unigrad provides for graduate jobs and Univac for vacation work. It also advertises internships.

• Volunteer Match
  

  This USA organisation offers distance and virtual volunteering.

• Worksafe Smart Move WA
  

  This safety and health resource package, from the WA government, is for years 10,11 and 12 high school students going on work experience and work placements.

• Victoria: Work Experience and Structured Workplace Learning
  

  This site provides information about work experience and structured workplace learning for Victorian students from the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.

• Resources for Parents, Students and Employers - Victoria
  

  This workplace learning page from the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development provides links to resources for employers, parents and students.

• Work Experience Placement Program
  

  This page provides details of a government initiative for eligible job seekers to gain unpaid work experience lasting from five days to eight weeks.

• Work experience you like
  

  This short article from Ace Day Jobs provides information on getting work experience that you really enjoy.

• ACT Work Experience: Department of Education and Training
  

  This ACT government site provides links to school work experience guidelines, policies and forms.

• Work Experience: Graduate Careers Australia
  

  This article outlines the benefits of work experience for graduates, provides advice on how to enhance employability and how to get the most out of work experience.

• Workforce Development Centres
  

  This article provides links to useful resources from the Western Australian Workforce Development Centres. It includes nine steps to follow from preparing for work experience through to evaluating and learning from new experiences.

• NSW: Workplace Learning in Schools
  

  This Vocational Education in Schools page is from the NSW Department of Education and Training. It provides information on policy, work placement programs and Occupational Health and Safety.

• NSW: Workplace Learning Procedures and Standards
  

  The standards and procedures in this support document apply to all workplace learning programs for NSW secondary students.

• Tasmania: Workplace Learning - Department of Education
  

  This page from the Tasmanian Department of Education provides links to guidelines, forms and handbooks related to workplace learning and work experience programs.

• Worksite Work Experience Diary
  

  This is a two page worksheet in the form of a five page diary. From the ACTU, it asks questions about the workplace, skills and career paths, unions, occupational health and safety, working conditions and pay and general pros and cons.

• Youth Rules: A Pocket Guide on Youth Employment – USA
  

  This resource from the USA presents tips to ensure teens learn the habit of good workplace safety and outlines appropriate work hours and workplace tasks.