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The Graduate 2013

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 I’ve been asked to let you all now about this event below……

The Graduate 2013

After graduating from University, many IT / Computing students have the knowledge to fulfil the technical specification of a job advertisement but can be perceived to lack some of the soft skills to be a modern IT professional. Without interview or assessment day experience it can be difficult to for them to show their true potential to prospective employers.

To help tackle this The BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has organised “The Graduate” Event. The BCS has teamed up with an outstanding list of IT Graduate Employers to put this event together.

Some the judges on the day include Yorkshire Water, Deloitte, Microsoft and Capgemini.

“The Graduate” is a mock recruitment event designed to provide IT/Computing students with the chance to experience how a recruitment process works. It provides an insight into what competencies organisations are seeking in their next graduate intake, an opportunity for them to exhibit their potential and the platform to learn new skills for when it really counts.

It is important to point out that “The Graduate” is not a recruitment event. The main aim of the event is to give the candidates feedback from trained professional graduate recruiters so that they can be better prepared for when they are applying for a real job. In the past a number of candidates have started roles at one of our partners, but this is very much an indirect benefit.

I would be really grateful if you could publicise this opportunity to your students. The event is open to all student year groups including recent graduates. The best way for them to get an idea of what happens at the event is to take a look at this video from 2012’s event http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BQ-5jIj8ot8.

The advertised deadline for this event is the 31st January 2013 so the students really need to apply ASAP. The event itself will take place on Monday 18th March.

More information can be found at http://www.thegraduate.bcs.org/ and you can find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TheGraduateEvent and on Twitter as @TheGraduateBCS.

IBM recruitment dates for 2013

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The following positions and dates are available for graduate, industrial year and summer placements.

Type Role Link
Graduate Software Development (2013 start) http://rfer.us/IBErcCL2S
Graduate Technology Solutions Specialist (2013 start) http://rfer.us/IBEXcnL2U
Graduate Technical Consultant (Summer/Autumn 2013 start) http://rfer.us/IBEcHWL2Z
Graduate Technical Consultant (early 2013 start) http://rfer.us/IBEMpOL2b
Graduate Strategic Analytics Consultant (September 2013 start) http://rfer.us/IBEhXlL2d
Graduate Strategic Analytics Consultant (early 2013 start) http://rfer.us/IBEM-xL2f
Industrial Placement Business (2013 start) http://rfer.us/IBEb..L2j
Industrial Placement Finance (2013 start) http://rfer.us/IBER2PL2l
Industrial Placement Human Resources (2013 start) http://rfer.us/IBELgdL2n
Industrial Placement Information Technology (2013 start) http://rfer.us/IBEo39L2p
Industrial Placement Marketing (2013 start) http://rfer.us/IBEJ8dL2r
Industrial Placement Software Development (2013 start) http://rfer.us/IBEQE.L2v
Extreme Blue Technical Role (2013) http://rfer.us/IBEsZvL2t

BT Graduate Programme Opportunities

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Please find attached details about Graduate Programme opportunities in BT. This follows on from a visit by Nick Barker from Futureboard, who came to talk about opportunities with BT at a careers event. Nick is looking for CVs by the end of the year so that he can process them early in January. He said he is only looking for a CV at this point (so you don’t need a covering letter).

Contact details for these positions is in the following PDF documents.

Summary-BT-Technology-Graduate-Programme-2013.pdf

MIS-BT-Technology-Graduate-Programme-2013.pdf

Field-Engineering-Manager-BT-Technology-Graduate-Programme-2013.pdf

Graduate and Industrial Year Placements – RENISHAW

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Renishaw Graduate and Industrial Placements adverts

Adrian Shaw says: “Renishaw are a very good company to work for, and at the cutting edge of technology with their own research labs. I’ve visited an IY student there recently, and in the past I’ve worked on a collaborative project with them. They really seem to look after their employees. And their rural location in South Gloucestershire is a lovely place to work and live.”

Closing date is 31st December.

Lorraine

Industrial Year Job – HP Cloud Services, Galway, Ireland

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Hello Everyone

Please see below details of an IY with HP…..

Closing date is end of January but as always, the sooner you apply the better.

Lorraine

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Industrial Year Placement with HP Cloud Services – Galway, Ireland

You will be joining a high energy and seasoned team, with a startup
culture, to build the next generation of public cloud, as part of HP’s
converged cloud offering. HP Cloud Services (HPCS) is a startup division within HP. Our goal is to provide the next generation of cloud
infrastructure, platform services, and cloud solutions for developers,
ISVs, and businesses of all sizes, based on OpenStack and related open
source projects. www.hpcloud.com provides more information of HP’s public cloud service.
As a member of the team, you will participate in one or more aspects of building a highly available, scalable and secure cloud solution. You will be engaged in a mix of Open Source and proprietary development, working with teams with HP and across the Open Stack Community.
Location
HP offices in Galway, on the west coast of Ireland. Galway is the major hub of Western Ireland, and well known for mixing travellers, students, culture and night-life.
HP Galway has a long history of taking placement year students from Aberystwyth, and prides itself on providing an atmosphere and situation where both students and HP get the maximum benefit from their year. Students are given real work on real systems and become full members of the teams they are placed with.
Responsibilities
– As a member of the HP Cloud Services team, you will contribute to the operational (running a data centre) and development activities involved with deploying and maintaining a public cloud.
– Work with multiple project teams of other software systems engineers and internal and outsourced development partners responsible for all stages of design and development for complex products and platforms,
including solution design, analysis, coding, testing, and integration
– Work with a range of technologies including Python, Linux, Openstack, ReSTful APIs, chef, ruby, git, HP labs technology and lots of big servers.
Salary
19k euro / annum, pro-rata for the length of internship
Application
CV and cover letter to duncan.thomas@hp.com
Useful links:-
www.hpcloud.com

www.openstack.org

www.theonion.com/video/hp-on-that-cloud-thing-that-everyone-else-is-talki,28789/

Entreprenurship seminar – November 23rd

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On the 23rd November Andrew Dixon is visiting the University and will offer a day-long seminar on entrepreneurship for 25-30 students. Andrew’s biography is below. During the day you will learn about raising money for start-up companies and be able to discuss your business ideas with fellow seminar participants. Lunch is included.

WHEN: 23rd November 0930-1530
WHERE: Medrus
HOW DO I REGISTER? WIth Steve McGuire (SMB) sbm@aber.ac.uk. Basically, it is the first 25-30 students who register
WHAT DO I NEED TO BRING? An interest in entrepreneurship and, ideally, a business idea (at whatever stage of development) that we can talk about.

Andrew is an investor in early-stage UK businesses – online gaming and instrumentation in the nanotechnology sector are the cornerstones of the portfolio. He previously worked at Societe Generale and Goldman Sachs where he advised gold producers, end-users, central banks & investors across the Asian region as to appropriate commodity derivative strategies. Andrew is an Enterprise Fellow at the Prince’s Trust, and holds a degree in International Politics from Aberystwyth University and an MBA from London Business School. He enjoys the odd bottle of Australian Shiraz, a half-volley outside off stump and a walk with the dog across the common.