InnerDrive placement opportunity

ABOUT INNERDRIVE
InnerDrive is a mental skills company that uses psychological research to help people improve their mindset, learning and key skills needed to perform under pressure. The company works across three main areas: Education, Sport and Business.
Within education, we are the market leaders in running school workshops. This sees us work with over 200 schools, running presentations to over 30,000 students. In sport, clients have included members of Team GB at the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Games, as well as many footballers from Manchester United, Tottenham, West Ham, Southampton and Brighton as well as having worked with senior internationals from England, Scotland, Wales and Japan. In business, we have worked with the likes of Microsoft, Pfizer and Mitsubishi on how to develop resilience and growth mindset with their employees.

ABOUT THE ROLE

An exciting and rare opportunity has emerged to join the InnerDrive team at our London office on a sandwich placement year. As a result of this placement, the successful candidate will have greatly improved their understanding of implementing computer science practices in the real world. Furthermore, this candidate will be viewed upon favourably should they wish to apply for a full-time role at InnerDrive upon graduation.
The role will include, but is not limited to:
• Website development (HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript)
• Coding on our HubSpot Customer Management and blogging back-end
• Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
• Assisting our course designers with online module development

ABOUT YOU

This is a rare opportunity as it is the first time we have offered this role. We are therefore looking for an exceptional candidate. We define exceptional as:
• Are a competent coder with attention to detail
• Are curious and willing to learn on the job
• Are aware of SEO best practices (Helpful but would be happy to teach this)
• Is willing to do more than what is normally expected. This includes demonstrating thorough preparation, determination after setbacks and have high levels of motivation to achieve
• Having a strong passion for computer science
• Someone who has a growth mindset and is open to feedback
• Solution focused and has the ability work independently
• Can follow instruction and adapt their style to quickly fit into our culture

ABOUT THE SELECTION PROCESS

If interested, please send a CV (no more than two pages, but ideally only one), a 200 word statement on why you would like to work for InnerDrive to info@innerdrive.co.uk with the subject as ‘InnerDrive Sandwich Placement’. Interviews will then be held via Zoom.

Macro4 Research and Development – 12 Month Industrial Placement

ARE YOU READY TO KICKSTART YOUR IT CAREER?

For full details and how to apply, see https://mycareer.ncl.ac.uk/leap/jobs.html?id=5843&service=Careers+Service

A placement at Macro 4 offers you a fantastic opportunity to learn new IT skills that will help kickstart your career.

You will be part of an established talent team which develops innovative software solutions for household name businesses around the globe. Macro 4 is a software division of UNICOM Global, one of the world’s fastest growing technology companies and a long-term partner of IBM.

Our technical teams are experienced in all major computing platforms, including IBM mainframes, Power, UNIX, Windows and new mobile and emerging technologies such as Blockchain. We believe in creating an environment where you can collaborate with others to learn multiple new skills, as well as having responsibilities for your own areas of work. We also encourage you to bring your own ideas and really show us what you can do.

You will work closely with other areas of the business to support the entire product development lifecycle, helping you gain an insight into how a successful software company operates.

Our student placements are part of a wider programme, KickStart, designed to nurture new talent and develop the IT leaders of the future. Your placement at Macro 4 could be the first step on a rewarding career path with us.

We are offering three placements at our European headquarters situated a short train ride from the city of London and Brighton with easy access from the M23. Two of the placements will be within the Research and Development team, and one will be within the Marketing team.

For full details and how to apply, see https://mycareer.ncl.ac.uk/leap/jobs.html?id=5843&service=Careers+Service