YINI – Year in Industry Placements

YINI is ideal for students studying either a STEM, Computing, Business or Marketing Degree.

What is YINI?

A paid placement opportunity for Undergraduate students to;

  • Increase & Improve their Employability Skills through relevant work experience
  • Build links with Employers for possible graduate employment
  • Gain an Industrial Accreditation (up to Platinum Level)
  • Go into the world of work with support from the YINI scheme
  • Opportunity to develop work-ready skills through a range of YINI Master Class Workshops

Who is YINI for?

YINI is open to any student with the Right to Work in the UK, who is seeking;

  • A paid placement lasting between 10-12 months
  • A placement usually taken in the penultimate year of their degree or a placement taken & completed before graduation

Students are usually in their penultimate year of their degree, likely studying one of the following;

  • Engineering (such as Civil, Electrical, Electronic, Mechanical, Systems, Manufacturing)
  • Computer Science, Software, Systems, IT
  • Physics
  • Business
  • Marketing

Most of our placements are in:                Science, Engineering, Technology or Maths (inc. Computing, Electronics)

Smaller number in:                                       Business, Finance, IT, HR or Marketing

 

Who do we place with?                               Large blue-chip companies such as Rolls Royce, Network Rail and EDF Energy, as well as SMEs

                                                                           Across the UK (except Northern Ireland)

 

When & How can students Register?

The Year in Industry (YINI) Scheme – Opportunity within Computer Science in London

The Year in Industry (YINI), part of the Engineering Development Trust (EDT), is a not for profit organisation offering Undergraduate students a free extra resource when searching for year out, paid placements as part of their degree studies. Candidates placed through the YINI scheme have access to additional mentor support, one day master classes and industrial accreditation. We work with partner companies all over the UK and have received the following opportunity:

Company Overview

This company develops a range of cloud-based enterprise solutions to make business activities simpler and more efficient.

We aim to develop software with exceptional usability, rich functionality and strong integration capabilities. Our solutions aim to drive the efficient communication and collaboration of business information, and our current solutions are aimed at allowing local government to deliver excellent customer service.

Job Description

The Year in Industry (YINI) scheme have two 12-month Placement opportunities commencing Sept 2018 ideally suited to students studying Computer Science with an interest in programming, ideally with experience with PHP and JavaScript.

Department: Development Team

Across the locations: London

Salary: £15,000 TBC

APPLY direct to YINI now for consideration

We are looking for highly motivated applicants to become members of our development team. The placement will involve the candidate in the development and maintenance of new and existing solutions. Through this they will become skilled in our development environment and involved in our product release cycle.

Ideal candidates are likely to have a background in computing, they will be scientifically minded and have a desire to increase their technical proficiency.

From a technical perspective, successful candidates will be given the opportunity to work with various web technologies such as PHP, JavaScript, Drupal, MySQL, HTML, CSS, and .Net languages. We also have our own development language.

As a member of the development team you will also have some responsibility in supporting our current customers and solving queries that they might have regarding our products.

To Apply:

  1. Complete an online application via http://www.etrust.org.uk/the-year-in-industry/apply-now
  2. Email your interest to Lidia Harrington on harrington@etrust.org.uk

Please note that you will need to be registered with the YINI scheme to apply for placements (you can register by using the link above).