Category Archives: Industrial Year

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

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

ARM – Graduate and Internship Opportunities

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ARM Holdings is the world’s leading semiconductor intellectual property (IP) supplier. What you probably know is that the company makes lots of microprocessors which go into devices such as mobile phones and low power computers. But wait, there is more.

At a recent Open Day, one of the parents of a prospective student talked to me about ARM computer. In addition to the hardware, a large part of the business writes software, some of which is low-level, but there are plenty of higher-level software developer opportunities in the company. The person noted that the company would love to hear from top-quality students for internship and graduate opportunities.

Anyway, there is a chance that the 2013 opportunities have been snapped up, but I encourage you to have a look on their recruitment site. I haven’t looked at all of the links, but it looks like some of the application dates have passed. If there is a position that really interests you, you could always consider emailing to ask if a late application would be welcomed. Otherwise, you could keep an eye on other vacancies that may come up.

The two links are provided below. You may yet find a great opportunity waiting for you in Cambridge or beyond.

http://www.arm.com/about/careers/students/student-vacancies.php

http://www.arm.com/about/careers/graduates/index.php

As a side note: What was also encouraging was that the person thought the types of skills we aim to encourage through our course fit well with the extra skills that companies want from prospective employees. These are skills such as the team working and the communication skills in addition to the technical background.

IY – Broadsword Publishing, Aberystwyth

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Broadsword Publishing http://www.broadsword-publishing.com/ based here in Aberystwyth are looking for one, possibly two, industrial year students:-

We are looking for someone with C++ experience who has a love of computer games to work with us on the latest consoles and PC apps. They must be flexible when it comes to projects as the games industry is very volatile, and specs for games can change on a daily basis!

Please email your CV and covering letter to John Jones-Steele, Head of Programming jjs@broadsword-publishing.com .

Salary is £14k

Closing date is 30th March.

 

 

IY – Gwynedd County Council – Cyngor Sir Gwynedd

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There will be TWO IY positions available – please see below for more info.  We have had students here for the past few years who have done really well, and these posts are only being advertised to Aber students so it’s a very good opportunity.

To apply, please forward me lal@aber.ac.uk your CV and covering letter. Please note the Welsh language requirements.

Closing date is 22nd March

Salary will be £12,489 to £12,787

Swydd Ddisgrifiad  Manylion Person

Person Spec    Job Description

Lorraine

 

IY – General Electric

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Adrian has emailed this to you back in December, they’ve just contacted me to say that the closing date has been extended to 15th February.

Please see:-

General Electric

One of our current IY students has sent this to me. He’s working for General Electric at the moment, and says they have three of our students this year. His comments:
“The Jobs aren’t so technical but very good experience for project management and working for a very large organisation 300,000+ employees. Plus the pays pretty good!”
So if that sounds like you, do have a go at this!

IY – MPC Data – Trowbridge, Wiltshire

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Details of an IY placement with MPC Data in Trowbridge, Wiltshire just come in this morning, see below.

Even though they only ask for a CV it would be a good idea to email them a covering letter as well.  Closing date is 15th February.

Salary is £17k.

Again – we have had students with them for many years now and only advertise to Aber students, so a very good opportunity for you.

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MPC Data is currently looking for motivated students for a 1 year placement.

Successful candidates will have the opportunity to work on leading-edge platforms for a wide range of markets, including consumer, automotive and security products. Developing software for embedded and mobile devices.
Candidates must be able to come up to speed on new technologies quickly. Good communication skills and the ability to work within a team is essential. The selected engineers will be responsible for the design and development of boot-loaders, drivers, system-level OS components, middleware and applications for complex 32-bit embedded operating systems, including Linux (incl. Android), Windows CE (and derivatives) and QNX.
Please take a look at our website at www.mpcdata.com and that of our parent company at www.bsquare.com
We offer a supportive environment where you can rapidly develop your software and project management skills while at the same time gaining the essential experience of working in the embedded industry. MPC Data have a long and very successful association with Aberystwyth University taking on several students for the last 10 years and with several of those students returning to fill permanent positions after graduation.
If you are interested then please send your CV to jobs@mpcdata.com marked for the attention of Jonathan Short.
MPC Data is based in Trowbridge, Wiltshire.

IY – Lighthouse UK – Shrewsbury

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Please see:-

Job_Description_Industrial_Placement_2013_14_v2_0

Lighthouse UK application form

Here are the instructions:-

If candidates could complete the word doc and save it as their name i.e. martin_lee.docx and email it direct to me martin.lee@lighthouseuk.net

They need to complete sections 1,2,5,6 & 7 they can sign the document if we interview. (section 5 is the key one, they need to consider this carefully)
I don’t want covering letters, as this info will be contained in section 5, their email just needs to say “please see attached application form for the role of industrial placement for 2013/14”. We want to make it easy for them to apply.
It’s also worth telling them there will be a short practical test at interview. Approximately 30 minutes.