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Placement Opportunities in IT
| Just a few of our Featured Placements & Internships | Company |
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| Wanted: Technical Industrial Placement Students |
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| Summer Internship - Extreme Blue |
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| Web Developer |
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The Most Recently Rated Placement
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| Business Analyst | Microsoft | Read it! |
A Recent Review Quote
“The role in itself can be quite demanded as you have to prioritise between what's important and what's urgent”
A placement student from BlackRock. Read the rest of this review …
A Background to IT
Information Technology is such a broad term when relating to careers. There can be no denying that IT is now integral to pretty much all businesses, and therefore there is considerable demand for students and graduates with IT skills in virtually every industry.
There are numerous areas of employment within IT, including more technical roles such as web design, technology development, quality management and training, software analysis and testing, database design and so on. For the less technical amongst you, there are career opportunities in consultancy, sales, customer support and general IT management.
The large IT companies such as IBM and HP take on many students in work placement and internship roles every year (IBM employed over 400 placement students during 2007/08!) so there are many opportunities in the larger organisations. However, you shouldn’t discount smaller companies when it comes to IT. Using your skills and knowledge, you may be able to go into a small company and make a real impact, bringing fresh ideas and developments to what may be dated systems.
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Placement Opportunities in IT
| Just a few of our Featured Placements & Internships | Company |
|---|---|
| Wanted: Technical Industrial Placement Students |
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| Summer Internship - Extreme Blue |
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| Web Developer |
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Recent Reviews for IT Placements
These reviews are for roles covered by this type of industry, but that doesn't mean they are always at organisations you might immediately associate with it.
Top 5 Rated Reviews
These reviews are for roles covered by this type of industry, but that doesn't mean they are always at organisations you might immediately associate with it.
e-skills Videos - Part II
Our Industry Insiders: Latest From the Blog | Published February 2010
The latest videos from the e-skills internship. This time round we catch up with Kinetic Solutions and Select Software...
Kinetic Solutions:
[flv:http://media.ratemyplacement.co.uk/kinetic-solutions-22.02.10.flv 436 348]
Select HR:
[flv:http://media.ratemyplacement.co.uk/select-software-22.02.10.flv 436 348]
IT in The Forum
| Discussion Thread | When |
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CSC Application |
31 weeks 17 hours |
CSC Application |
41 weeks 1 day |
CSC Application |
45 weeks 3 days |
IBM rule |
46 weeks 6 days |
IBM rule |
47 weeks 5 days |
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