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Each employer record and each arrangement record in WorkExpo must have a work type description. This is the type of work that the student will be undertaking whilst working with the specified employer.

For example the following descriptions are all work types:

• Animal Care Assistant
• Beauty Therapy Aide
• Animal Care
• Sales Assistant
• Office Duties

When you add a new employer record in WorkExpo you must enter at least one work type which is offered by that employer. This is added on the main tab in the Employer's window. Please note that employers can have multiple work types assigned to them. Click the Work Types tab in the Employers window to add, edit or delete multiple work types for an employer.

 

How to add/edit or delete work types from the Work Types lookup list:

1. From the WorkExpo main menu click the large Options button.
2. In the Work Type section click the Edit Work Type List button.
3. Add or edit the details for each Work Type in the list.
4. To delete a work type from the list select the small grey box to the left of the work type description then
5. Press the DELETE key on the keyboard.

 

Update work types currently assigned:

This feature allows you to update existing Work Type descriptions across the board. For example, say you have some students assigned with work type General Office Work and several other students assigned as Admin/Office Work. You might like to consolidate all of these into a single Work Type Office Work.

This makes it easier to group all students under the one heading when grouping by Work Type.

1. From the WorkExpo main menu click the large Options button.
2. In the Work Type tab move to the Update work Types currently Assigned section.
3. Select a Work Type description to change in the Change drop-down. (In our case we'll choose General Office Work.)
4. In the To This... drop down we would select or enter Office Work.
5. Click the Update above Work Type button to update all instances (arrangements) to this Work Type.

Note that this does not remove the original Work Type General Office Work from the list. The update only modifies arrangement records where the original work type description appeared in arrangements. To remove the original Work Type description (General Office Work) altogether, delete it from the Work Types Lookup List.

 

Difference between Work Types and Industry Sector:

Work Types describe the general duties a student might undertake while on work placement e.g.

• Receptionist,
• Teacher Aide,
• Aircraft Maintenance

...whereas Industry Sector descriptions are those nine or ten agreed general broad Industry categories such as:

• Manufacturing,
• Transport & Storage,
• Finance and Insurance
• etc.

 

 

 

 

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