Secondary School Work Experience

Hume City Council is one of Australia's fastest growing and culturally diverse councils. We put the customer and our community at the centre of all that we do, ensuring our services are efficient and accessible.

Secondary students are provided work experience opportunity to observe and learn, in a shadow capacity, in an area of their interest. The student will learn about the day-to-day operations and expected behaviours of the workplace.

Secondary students can apply for up to five consecutive days of work experience during the school term and will be placed with a supervisor to complete tasks in an area of their interest.

What you'll be doing:

We have opportunities in a number of services across Council including:

Our Early Years Centres

• A placement in one of our Early Years childcare centres will give you the opportunity to shadow and gain experience to the day in the life of an early childhood educator.

Leisure Centres

• A placement in one of our leisure centres will give you insights into what is it like to work in a leisure centre, where no day is the same. You might shadow a gym instructor during appointments, support the team with housekeeping across gym and group fitness areas, shadow a swimming instructor and attend to tasks across the aquatics area, or attend a group fitness class to see how classes are run.

Library Services

• A placement within one our library services will give you exposure to customer service as you shadow a staff member, support with housekeeping including shelving and tidying of books and other items, general administrative duties as well as supporting collection maintenance.

Venues Operations

• A placement within one of our venues operations team will give you exposure to customer service, supporting the team with event booking, setting up events and general customer service skills liaising with people who host events and event participants.

We also have opportunities for students to shadow a few teams based in our head office. Students will gain real life work experience in a dynamic office in a work department in an area of interest such as communications, engineering or information technology.

Student Requirements:

• Year 10 student
• At least 15 years of age at time of placement
• Seeking five consecutive days of work experience during the school term
• Placement hours of 9am – 3pm
• Provide a signed Student Placement Agreement and agree to act in accordance with Council's Employee Code of Conduct while undertaking placement.

Additional Information

The application will require a resume, and we understand that as a secondary student you may not have one. However, creating a resume is an opportunity to support your job readiness and employability skills. Please create and submit a resume sharing some information about yourself including your skills, strengths and areas of interest and what you would like to achieve from participating in work experience at Hume City Council.

Why Hume City Council?

A leader in local government, we're committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative work environment that is guided by our values:

We're better, every day: We give things a go and value progress over perfection. We have permission to go for it and are expected to reflect and learn.

We're in it together: At Hume, everyone matters. We Welcome and include all. Respect and safety are expected.

We show up: We empower and trust others and own our work. We rise to the challenges and are expected to do what we say we will.

All for Hume: We strive to achieve our best for the Hume Community. We are proud and passionate about working towards better outcomes and expect they are at the centre of everything we do.

A child safe organisation and an equal opportunity employer. Council encourages people of all ages, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTIQA+ people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.