Georgia’s Work Experience Placement at Nestlé

We're excited to share the story of Georgia Miller, one of our students from the Young Women's Academy at Wellington High School. Georgia recently wrapped up a valuable 3-day work experience.

Georgia’s time at Nestlé was a deep dive into the corporate world, packed with all sorts of interesting activities and insights. She kicked things off with a friendly welcome, a big office tour that showed her just how huge and busy Nestlé’s headquarters are, and even scored a cool goodie bag.

Getting Hands-On and Learning the Ropes

After an intro presentation, Georgia quickly got stuck into some hands-on tasks. She helped out with making recipes for Nestlé’s Infant Nutrition collection and got a solid overview of the company’s various community programs, seeing how much they give back.

She also jumped into some pretty important mini-projects, like brainstorming ideas for OzHarvest’s “OzTober” campaign, helping with efforts to cut down food waste and working on a significant project for Nestlé’s Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), focusing on how to attract and recruit Indigenous youth.

On top of all that, she lent a hand with a corporate brand and community programs website project, writing content and info on date labelling.

From School Trip to Real-World Opportunity

Georgia heard about this fantastic chance after going on a NASCA career trip to the Nestlé office in Sydney.

Looking back at her experience, Georgia shared: “Being able to move around the building going from different sections and seeing the different workspaces and how big the building really was, was pretty cool. Also seeing how relaxed and chill the office space and staff are was kind of nice as I didn’t have to act so differently to fit in which was very relieving.”

When we asked her what she found most interesting, Georgia especially enjoyed “working on a social media food waste mini project,” and loved “seeing the kitchen and what the cook and market Nutritionist did and what they looked at on their produce.”

Future Plans and Amazing Support

Georgia already has a clear idea of what she wants to do after school: pursue a Bachelor of Social Work at university. But this Nestlé experience definitely opened her eyes to the exciting possibility of also studying Nutrition.

Getting to Sydney wouldn’t have been possible without some fantastic support. Georgia gave a big shout-out to the NASCA staff who helped her:

“NASCA staff played a big role in getting me to Sydney, both Courtney (Senior Pathways Manager) and Jasmin Daley (Wellington Program Lead) sorted out the paperwork needed and also organised everything that needed to be done, including travel, accommodation and food. Jas also accompanied me to Sydney driving me to and from the Nestlé office everyday and supporting me while I was there. Courtney for the pathway program was overall just really supportive and had lots of confidence in me to do well during the week.”

Georgia highlighted a key takeaway from her time: “One thing I’ll definitely remember about my time at Nestlé is how welcoming and kind people were, as well as how different office jobs are to what I thought they were like.”

Her advice for other students thinking about similar opportunities is spot on: “trying to be as involved as possible and also to be confident in themselves and make the most of the opportunity.”

All in all, Georgia found her work experience to be a really positive and eye-opening journey. She learned a ton, got a great look into what an office job is actually like, and even started getting new ideas about what her future could look like.

Curious about how NASCA creates these life-changing opportunities? Learn more about the NASCA Pathways Program.