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About the scheme:
BBC
2012 – Work Experience Programme- Launched in January 2011 the programme aims to
attract new and diverse talent to the BBC, enhancing our relationship with
members of our underserved audiences.
For the duration of the first
year, the scheme targeted residents of
the six Olympic host boroughs, with huge
success. Our ambition is to offer over 250 work experience placements
over the course of the 2 year duration, delivering upon the BBC's commitment
to creating a long lasting legacy, after the London 2012 Olympic Games. With
this in mind, we feel that the time is right to broaden our application target
zone to specific neighbouring boroughs to the BBC's West London base., and
Hammersmith and Fulham has been identified as a key area that we wish to extend
this scheme to.
The BBC
London 2012 Work Experience scheme has been created with the sole purpose of
encompassing social inclusion. It is very much about opening the doors of
the corporation to members of the public that would seldom get the opportunity
to take up a work placement with the BBC. It is a completely separate entity to
the pan BBC Work experience scheme which runs on an annual basis.
Now in its 4th session, the
scheme has experienced huge success. Having recruited and placed in excess
of 90 candidates over the past 10 months, we are delighted to
report that 15% of our first year work experience candidates
have gone on to convert their unpaid work placements into
paid employment with the BBC.
At present
we offer placements across various divisions including: Journalism; Audio
Music; HR Factual production, and multiplatform amongst others.
Although at present the vast majority of our placements are very much
production based, we are in the process of diversifying away from offering
predominantly production based roles, and will be adding roles that
encompass more administrative skill sets to increase the demographic of
applicants that we have applying for the scheme.
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Who is this scheme for?
This scheme
has been set up to facilitate those members of society that have ambition,
drive and determination, and are looking to gain new skills and experience in a
busy professional working environment.
We are
looking for candidates that are aged 18 and over, who are not educated to,
or are not working towards a degree or higher level qualification.
We are
really keen to get applications from people who have been long term unemployed,
career changers, and from members of the community from diverse backgrounds.
Essentially
it is easier to say that the scheme is not for graduates!
We do
however require that all candidates that apply for the scheme have good IT,
numeracy and literacy skills, as well as a genuine interest in the media
industry.
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How long do placements last?
The duration
of placements is dependant upon the placement area, however it is safe to say
that most placements last 4 weeks ( 20 days) in duration. There are a few that
fall outside of this, such as the BBC Newsrooms and Radio 1 live events, both
of which are 1 week placements only.
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How
to apply
An On-line application can be obtained via the link below with detailed information. Work Zone can assist if required by
contacting the phone number below;
- Gurnam Selvarajah 0208 753 4693
- Colette Burke 0208 753 4691
- Eiman Aslam 0208 753 4695
- For an on line Application
- Work Zone Web page
