WORK SHADOWING SCHEME QUESTIONNAIRE

 

 

NAME:

PROFESSION:

SERVICE:

 

 

1.      If you were to undertake a work placement abroad, which area of work or interest would you like to develop or learn from?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.      How long do you feel you would require abroad to fulfill the above task/area of work/subject to achieve your objective? (From 2 weeks to 3 months maximum).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.      Once your service approval and placement availability have been agreed, when would you wish to go? Please indicate 2 dates, also any information you wish to supply.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.      a) Do you have or have you developed any language skills (on holiday,

          course, language method, other etc.) or did you learn a new

          language recently?

      b) Please indicate the level (spoken, read and written).

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5. In which country from the North Sea Region would you like to have a work placement and please give the main reasons.

 

 

6.      Please indicate your choice of accommodation:

     a) Accommodation within a family

     b) Shared accommodation with a person (e.g. with somebody from

         another twin or partner town also undertaking a work placement?)

     c) Private accommodation

     d) House exchange

     e) Other (Please indicate)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.      You are aware that this scheme may also become an exchange of employees in some cases, meaning that an employee abroad may wish to make a work placement with your organisation. In some cases, exchanges are a direct match, in others not. In the case of a direct match, how would you see it happening (please also indicate why):

-         Swapping desks and jobs at the same time?

-         Going over first and then meet your direct match?

-         Direct match to come first and then you would go over?

-         No exchanges possible and if so why?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8. Do you have any previous experience of a similar scheme or did you

     participate - i.e. as a student - in a school exchange? If yes, how would

     you rate that experience and what did you learn from it? Also, are there

     any suggestions you would like to make please?

 

 

 

 

 

 

9. Do you have any questions of your own about the scheme?

 

 

Many thanks for assisting in this exercise.

Please return this questionnaire as soon as you can to: