The initial deadline for the DCA job was today. Richard just contacted me to say that no-one has applied yet.
This is disappointing. DCA is a company who always come to us for students, always come to Gregynog, and always take students. If none of you want to go there, they might go to another university instead of us next year!
So, if you want to work in the web field, you want to go to a company we know and trust to provide a good placement, and you want a high chance of your application being successful, please apply now! Richard says he will give you until the end of this week.
It would be useful if you could also let us know if you are intending to apply for this post, and drop me an email when you’ve applied. Thanks!
Angharad
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Subject: Second Industrial Year placement student at DCA
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 13:52:49 +0000
From: Richard Gledhill <richard.gledhill@dca-design.com>
To: Angharad Shaw [ais] <ais@aber.ac.uk>
CC: toh24@aber.ac.uk
Hello Angharad,
I hope you are well and Gregynog went well last weekend.
At DCA we are looking to take on an additional IY student for 2020 for something quite different to our usual embedded software. We are looking for an exceptional student who is comfortable with full stack software development for web interfaces, specifically:
-Data entry and visualisation on web pages
-Interfacing to a database (probably MySQL/NoSQL)
-Server-side data processing and scripting (maybe PHP but could be an
alternative)
-Export of data to Excel worksheets (probably just through a third-party
add-in)
Do you have any students in mind who would be willing to take this on?
It would be a prime opportunity for a student to gain valuable commercial experience in putting together a complex system for us. I’m sure there would be other projects around the side of this too so they would get some variation in their work as well.
Tom Hotston (copied) has kindly offered to make himself available to potential placement students if they would like to talk to him about working at DCA.
Looking forward to hearing if you have anyone in mind,
Kind regards,
Richard
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