Category: Placements

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Reflections on my placement at Newcastle University as a Business Analyst

Hi, I’m Dominic Kennedy and I’m studying Computer Science at Newcastle University. In July, I started my 15 month long placement working as an Assistant Business Analyst for Newcastle University IT Service (NUIT). I am working within the Student Systems team, who are responsible for managing the Student Lifecycle Management processes within the University. SLM involves the full lifecycle of a student – from registration through to graduation – meaning that we provide a wide variety of different services to both students and staff.

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Placement opportunity in Software Engineering with XACTPCB Ltd

Printed circuit boards are at the heart of all electronics and XACT is the world’s leading provider of award winning patented Smart Manufacturing technologies to the global printed circuit industry. XACT’s innovative products utilise integrated data capture and machine learning to enable fabricators to manufacture high-technology circuit boards of ever-increasing complexity whilst reducing costs, increasing profitability and improving time to market. XACT has over 150 active customers spread around the world.

XACT is now looking for an enthusiastic software engineering student to work on placement based in North Shields (2 minutes from the Metro) for a 12-15 month period from June 2019.

We would expect a candidate to have knowledge of object-oriented software design. Experience with C#, MVVM, WPF, Git and Visual Studio would be beneficial but is not required.

As a placement software engineer you will join our agile development team to develop new features within our latest generation of products. This will involve a number of roles; programming, testing, documenting and working on a number of areas within the product; GUI development, data integration and client/server communication. The placement will provide an opportunity to develop a well-rounded understanding and practical experience of modern software development.

The ideal person will have a positive and flexible attitude, be eager to learn and committed to achieving results. The learning curve will be steep but support will be provided by an enthusiastic team of software engineers.

To apply for this position, please send a cover letter and CV to recruitment@xactpcb.com

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City Internships – Placement opportunities in America

City Internships has Global Accelerator Programs in Paris, Boston, Chicago and San Francisco. These internships are filling very quickly so interested students are encouraged to take the opportunity to apply sooner rather than later.

Students can also continue applying to our other larger and longer-running Program locations; which are New York, Los Angeles, London, Miami and Washington D.C.

For a short reminder of what they do: Programs are open to students from any year and with any major, and they may choose a placement in one of 9 career fields although computing students should look for Technology & Engineering placements.

Students may apply now at: https://city-internships.com/apply

For those who wish to review our Prospectus which explains our Programs and offering, you may find it here and also a printable Noticeboard Flyer is available here.

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Getting a Computing Science 12-month placement

Work experience during your undergraduate Computer Science degree can take the form of a  9-12 month placement taken between stage 2 and 3. This provides the opportunity to gain real-world experience, develop your technical and inter-personal skills and enhance your career prospects: many students who have taken a placement end up with a graduate job offer from the same company, and the most recent graduate employment figures show 100% of graduates who had done a placement are employed in a graduate-level job (or in further study) 6 months after graduating.

If you plan to do a placement as part of your degree:

  • You will need to be on the correct degree course (for example, G401 BSc Computer Science with Industrial Placement, G421 BSc Computer Science (Mobile and Distributed Systems) with Industrial Placement, etc.
    • If you are not yet on that programme, you will need to complete a Degree Programme Change form, available from CS Reception, to be signed by the Degree Programme Director. But you don’t need to do this until after you have secured a placement – there’s no need to rush into doing it until then.
  • You are responsible for finding, and applying for, the placement. You can get help from the School, by looking at the information provided on these pages, by talking to the Placements Co-ordinator (Steve Riddle) and signing up for alerts from the Careers Service (Vacancies Online) as well as making full use of all the resources (a list and guidance can be found here).
  • Once you’ve secured a placement, you must complete a Placement Approval Form, to be signed by the Placements Co-ordinator and the Degree Programme Director.
  • Once you have started your placement, we will enrol you in a community on e-portfolio where you can share your experience with other students on placements. A member of academic staff will also come out to visit you.
  • During your placement you’ll also need to complete some short assignments and a Report Form giving updated contact details and more information about your work to date, and a Learning Agreement recording the initial objectives as discussed and agreed with your employer.

Further information about placements can be found: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/careers/workexperience/placements/

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Welcome to new and returning students

For new and returning students, a quick introduction to the “Careers and Placements” blog / twitter feed/ facebook page. Posts on the blog are forwarded automatically to the group https://www.facebook.com/csatncljobs and to @csatncljobs on twitter.

We use this blog for information about graduate careers, placements, employability events and resources.

Many more resources are offered by the Careers Service: see http://www.ncl.ac.uk/careers/workexperience/ for a full list of the guides, sessions and resources on offer. In particular, the list of resources for placement opportunities and shorter internships is extensive.