Category Archives: Industrial Year

Posts that are useful for students thinking about taking a year in industry.

TeachFirst Insight Programme

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TeachFirst has notified us of an opportunity for penultimate year students in STEM subjects. TeachFirst runs a graduate programme that combines teaching and a leadership development programme. Laura McAvoy from TeachFirst wrote:

“Insight is an opportunity for penultimate year STEM eligible students to gain a unique insight into the Leadership Development Programme – participants on the programme gain work experience in a Teach First partner school, as well as the chance to inspire pupils with their passion for science, technology, engineering or maths.”

A 2-page flyer is available: Insight Flyer.

If you are interested, also see the online application details. The deadline for this first round is Friday January 17th. You will have a second opportunity to take part as the programme should run again in September.

The Power of Social Networking – Enterprise Rent-A-Car

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3rd years – applying for graduate jobs…? Probably relevant for 2nd years starting process for IY positions. I have been asked to give a final push for an event that Careers have been advertising.

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The Power of Social Networking – Enterprise Rent-A-Car
TODAY in Physics 320 at 1pm.

An interactive session allowing participants to learn about how Graduate Employer of the Year Enterprise Rent-A-Car use social media to engage with students and what YOU can do to use social media to network with graduate employers and raise your online personal brand.
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There is a second event, but it would only appeal to those of you who are interested in Sales and Marketing.

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Working in Sales and Marketing – Enterprise Rent-A-Car
TODAY in Physics Main – 3pm to 5pm

An interactive session where participants will have an insight into sales and marketing and then work on a sales and marketing 1 hour challenge allowing you to be creative and present your ideas.
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IY – HP Cloud Services – Galway, Ireland

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You will be joining a high energy and seasoned team, to build and run the next generation of public cloud, as part of HP’s converged cloud offering. HP Cloud Services (HPCS) is part of HP, focusing on providing HP’s public cloud. 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 in HP and across the Open Stack Community.
Location
HP’s European Software Centre 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. Recent students have opensource commits and reviews, CVE security vulnerability disclosures and other achievements to their name earned while on their placement year.
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, opscode chef, ruby, git, HP labs technology and lots of big shiny servers.
Salary
19k euro / annum, pro-rata for the length of internship
Application
CV and cover letter tostuart.mclaren@hp.com
Our current placement student, Tom Leaman, has offered to field any questions people may have if they wish to address them directly to a student: email tom.leaman@hp.com

IY – Plymouth Marine Laboratory

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Please see:-

pml_placements_2014

Placements now being advertised at PML – please see above.
We have had a long-standing relationship with PML having had IY students with them for many years now.
They like Aber students a lot, so now’s your chance – please apply.

Closing date 13th December.

Lorraine

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Please find attached details of 7 placements for computing students at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (Remote Sensing group).
Please would you advertise the placements among your students, with particular encouragement for those with excellent programming ability. Applications are sought by Friday 13th December, sent to me by post, e-mail or fax, details in advert.
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Latest news: www.pml.ac.uk and @PlymouthMarine
Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) is a company limited by guarantee registered in England & Wales, company number 4178503. Registered Charity No. 1091222. Registered Office: Prospect Place, The Hoe, Plymouth  PL1 3DH, UK.

 

 

 

 

IY – Grid Tools – Oxford

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Grid Tools IY 2014

A chance for you to put what you learnt at Gregynog into practice 🙂

Please see above – based in Oxford – salary will be £18k.  We have had two industrial year students at this company last year and they were VERY IMPRESSED with them.

They are only advertising the position to Aber students – so a wonderful opportunity!

To apply – please forward your CV and covering letter to richard.groves@grid-tools.com by 22nd November.

Many thanks

Lorraine

SyQic Summer Internships

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Summer internship offers for second, third and MSc students.
Darius
Hi. My name’s Darius and I’m a software developer at SyQic Limited. We’re an international IPTV company based in Kuala Lumpur who specialise in supplying Asian video-on-demand to diaspora communities. I was offered an internship opportunity with the company after graduating from the MEng at Aber Comp Sci. As part of the placement I lived and worked in Malaysia for a month, an experience I enjoyed immensely. The company offered me a permanent position at their UK office at the end of the placement which I eagerly accepted.
I work with the development team at SyQic’s office in Gerrards Cross, just on the outskirts of London. I’ve also travelled to Kuala Lumpur again since starting to work directly with my colleagues in the Far East.
We’re currently in the final stages of a project to create a new product called Yoonic. It’s revamping our content management and distribution systems as well as creating a brand new front-end app range. All of this presents several interesting challenges which I’ve enjoyed tackling over the past few months. Now we’re on the threshold of an exciting new stage in the project as we deploy with out partners and look in the future to design and add features that will increase the value of the platform to our subscribers.
SyQic’s offering several internship placements this summer that would be great experience for recent graduates. Whether you’re interested in smartphone app development, web development or video delivery there’s something for you here. For an opportunity to work on an interesting and exciting project and get some valuable work experience, apply now. There are permanent positions in the company up for grabs as well at the end of the placement!
For further information and how to apply, read: Information about the Internship Programme. Applications should me made using the:
Application Form