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Placement: Game Developer, Feral Interactive

Feral Interactive, a leading developer and publisher of AAA games for Mac and Linux, is offering year-long industrial placements to university students currently studying Computer Science or a related degree.

Our game developer placements involve working on real game code: you’ll be porting top PC and console releases to Mac, Linux or mobile platforms. You’ll also help to develop our in-house tools and support the overall development process.

You’ll be working on the same projects as our graduate developers, and will work directly with them and our experienced programmers, gaining valuable experience in games development. This includes getting familiar with the development cycle, bug tracking and working with a QA team.

We like to see students who’ve gone beyond the requirements of their course: we’re happy to look at examples of your own projects and code, so feel free to include them with your application.

For more information and how to apply, see Game Developer placement

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Placements and Graduate roles: NATS (National Air Traffic Services)

NATS 2017 Early Career opportunities are now open for applications! This year we have 10 Industrial Placement opportunities and 2 Direct Entry Graduate opportunity available to students.

Applications must be submitted via our careers website, with a CV and Cover Letter detailing responses to the application questions where applicable (see advert for further information).

Industrial Placements

Our Industrial Placements are designed for students in their second year of university, who are looking for a 12 month sandwich year opportunity; this year we have 10 placement opportunities for students in the following specialisms:

  • Supply Chain Management
  • Business Development (New scheme)
  • SafetyTraining Delivery Support (Business Studies)
  • Information Solutions
  • Analytics
  • Engineering
  • Finance (New scheme)
  • Project Management

Direct Entry Graduates 

Our Graduate position is available to students coming to the end of their degree. The placement will be within our Engineering and Project Management department and students will join our two-year, graduate programme, which provides a clear route for progression and development, via a mix of on-the-job training and classroom tuition.

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Placements at Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

Sandwich Student opportunities

STFC AlmaExperience more on your sandwich placement…

Experience the unknown. 

Work with brilliant minds on world leading science and technology projects and support ground-breaking research that will inspire, shape and define our future.

STFC (Science & Technology Facilities Council) – Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire and Polaris House in Swindon

A world-class organisation

One of Europe’s largest multidisciplinary research organisations, we share our knowledge and work with scientists, engineers and organisations around the globe. Bringing strategic leadership and an integrated approach to UK investments, we’re made up of a diverse group of multi-site organisations and are based in large national and international research facilities.
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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.