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Graduate Jobs in Computing Science, Internships, and Work Experience

Are you looking for graduate opportunities in your final year or information on work during your studies like placements, work experience and internships?

I am an official student representative for the Graduate Recruitment Bureau (GRB). GRB work with 100s of graduate recruiters of all sizes in all industry sectors across the UK, and have placed many graduates from Newcastle University.

They provide a unique student ‘matchmaking’ service: write in your degree course/location and they will set you up with companies for jobs, internships and work experience.

This is a great chance to be contacted by a large recruitment company and have them tell you about popular employers and the vacancies that are available.

So… sign up at:

http://www.grb.uk.com/sbm/64

Only takes 30 seconds to fill in, what have you got to lose?

Good luck with your career!

Charlotte Stokes

(Graduate, working as a GRB rep)

            

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NASA International Space Apps Challenge at the University of York

For the fifth year running the University of York is hosting NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge!

What is NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge? 

NASA is on a mission to foster innovation around challenges affecting us at home and in space. As one of the world’s largest international annual hackathons, we designed Space Apps for problem solvers like you. This 48-hour event inspires citizen teamwork for positive change across every skill level and discipline.

We invite engineers, coders, makers, artists and storytellers to connect over mission-related challenges. The growing Space Apps community represents the core of NASA’s Open Innovation Initiative. Together, citizens like you have developed thousands of open-source solutions. Your big ideas are shaped using data visualizations, hardware, code, design and more!

The Hackathon is free to attend, with free food and drink and prizes for the best projects at a local, national, and international level. Form a group and join us for a weekend of frantic coding!
More information on the event can be found here

This year’s challenges can be found here

You can sign up to take part at York here

Space Apps 2017 Poster

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Pfizer UK Industrial Trainee Scheme 2017/2018: Information Technology (IT) Undergraduate

We are Pfizer, one of the world’s premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, discovering, developing and providing over 200 different medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products that help save and transform the lives of millions of people in the UK and around the world every year.

To apply visit: undergraduateprogramme.pfizercareersuk.com 

About the Business Technology

The role will be in our Business Technology (BT) team, with the mission to be the best information technology (IT) organisation in healthcare, and be respected as a world leader in delivering business value through technology.

Business Technology is structured into two key areas:
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Junior Developer – Newcastle

GCSEPod – A ground-breaking Education Publishing company are looking to grow their digital team to help them realise their product and platform’s potential. Founded in Newcastle, the company is Multi award-winning and at the forefront of EdTech.  It has broken the mould and challenged convention in the sector. The product currently delivers learning materials to over 1000 schools in 22 countries and to in excess 280,000 pupils; It employs 25 people in central Newcastle.

This position is perfect for a developer who:

  • feels they are ready for new challenges and to apply skills learnt at University
  • wants to learn, experience and utilise new skills on a day-to-day basis
  • can be a key part of a team that takes full control of a product from start to finish

As we look to grow out our suite of products, based on a common platform and under a unifying brand, the right developer will have both the skills and the personality to be part of this journey and must be ready for the exciting challenges this will bring. You should have a great interest in development and the challenges it can lead to. Your role would be to form part of a highly-skilled development team (currently 2 senior developers), involved in new product development as well as implementing new features and maintaining existing code, that will enable the business to grow at an unparalleled rate maintaining its lead in the industry. The business environment is young, energetic and vibrant where colleagues are collaborative and collegiate in their approach.

We need you to:

  • have an interest in web technologies
  • have an understanding of OOP principles and common software design patterns
  • have a basic understanding of SQL and PHP
  • have an understanding of software testing and TDD
  • have an understanding version control, ideally with Git
  • work with the existing development team and colleagues throughout the business to resolve support tickets and develop new functionality
  • be confident and self-motivated, willing to suggest new methods, tools or ideas where appropriate

Other beneficial skills are:

  • a working knowledge of Linux command line interface
  • an understanding of website security issues
  • an understanding of front-end development
  • a familiarity with Javascript and the jQuery library
  • a familiarity with CSS/SASS

Other benefits are:

  • Supporting the successful candidate with training budget to develop skills and knowledge

Details to apply. Please send your CV & cover letter to David Silburn, Software Development Consultant at: david.silburn@gcsepod.com

 

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AIS Neutron: .NET developer (Graduate/Junior)

AIS Neutron are recruiting Graduate / Junior level .NET developers to join their growing team. You will be working on the development of a new generation of .NET / C# software products; helping the firm transform its traditional business online.

These roles would be suitable for Graduate / Junior .NET Developer who have recently graduated from university and have a good understanding of the .NET framework (ASP.NET using C#) which might have been acquired as part of your degree course or through a placement year in industry.

Technologies –

ASP.NET MVC, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 5, WCF, RESTful, Web API, SQL Server 2014, Agile, TDD, BDD, Mercurial (Hg)

For more information contact: hello@neutronvr.com