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Here at Holkham, we’re happy to offer work experience opportunities for local school and college students.

These placements will help students to explore their potential career path and learn about what we do across the estate.

Placements are generally 1-2 weeks long and can be taken in a number of businesses and teams at Holkham.

 

Where will your work experience take you?

Holkham is formed of many businesses and teams, so there’s plenty of opportunities for you to learn and develop skills in an area that’s interesting to you. Sometimes students split their work experience across multiple teams.

Scroll through the list below and see where inspires you.

Conservation and the National Nature Reserve

Marketing

Building and Maintenance

Education

Cafés

HR

Visitor Operations

Pinewoods Holiday Park

Alara’s work experience

Alara joined the Marketing team for work experience in autumn 2022, taking part in a number of activities including:

  • Assisting with our Christmas press launch
  • Collating information and photographs for a gift guide
  • Adding events to various listing websites to increase awareness
  • Supporting with preparations for our Audience with Father Christmas event
  • Proof-reading copy for the Holkham website
  • Setting up an online survey for customers
  • Joining meetings with the Marketing and Enterprises teams

Harry’s work experience

Harry completed his work experience in summer 2023, with time spent in the Visitor Experience, Archives, Facilities, Marketing, Cycle Hire and Events teams.

During his varied week, he:

  •  Supported our Collections Coordinator and Archivist in Holkham’s attics and archives
  • Welcomed visitors and handled financial transactions in the Hall, Walled Garden and Cycle Hire hut
  • Supported with content creation: editing audio clips, taking photographs and videos for social media
  • Assisted in locking up the Hall
  • Gained insight into our sustianability policy, WONDER, and events by attending meetings
  • Conducted SWOT analyses including providing an external perspective on Holkham’s events
  • Worked with the Hall Stewards and learnt about the State Rooms

Find out more in Harry’s journal, written at the end of his week at Holkham.

“Upon reflecting on the week, I have had an amazing time and the nerves I had on the first day are entirely gone and replaced by confidence. It is so utterly different at Holkham than to anything near where I live in Birmingham, and I have really enjoyed the experiences and the atmosphere here. On the first day when I drove through the south gate, I was taken aback by the pure scale of Holkham, and that sense of awe has yet to cease as I am constantly learning new things about how it’s run and about the estate itself.”

Harry

“In the future, I want to go to university and hopefully then go into law. During work experience at Holkham, I have learnt about the importance of adapting, which will be helpful in law. There’s always going to be new things coming up. You can have a plan, but you need to be able to incorporate things into that. I loved the Christmas side of things. Seeing the Hall was great and seeing how much effort goes into the Christmas events and details was really interesting.”

Alara

Get in touch about your work experience

Applications for work experience for 2025 are now open.

Please email careers@holkham.co.uk to register your interest.