Uptree

What does meaningful work experience look like in a changing world?

This webinar will explore what meaningful work experience looks like today, and how schools, employers, and young people can work together to make every placement purposeful, inclusive, and transformative. With workplaces, technologies, and skills needs changing rapidly, it’s time to redefine what high-quality, impactful work experience means for the next generation.

Drawing on Uptree’s ten years of delivering early-career experiences and insights from educators, policymakers, talent professionals, and young people, the discussion will address how work experience can evolve to reflect hybrid work, AI, and the skills needed for the workplaces of tomorrow. This is not about compliance, but collaboration and building a new vision for meaningful work experience that is both equitable and effective.

Date: Wednesday 3rd December 2025

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm

Platform: Virtual event on Teams

Why this matters now

Work experience is at a crossroads. Only 44% of young people report doing work experience in school, and many of those experiences are still focused on observation rather than participation. Meanwhile, hybrid work, AI, and rapid industry change are reshaping what readiness looks like. This webinar will ask: how do we ensure that work experience remains relevant, inspiring, and equitable - preparing young people for the world as it is becoming, not just as it was?

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