Extreme Blue Summer Internship

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Extreme Blue Summer Internship

Think of it as the opportunity to unleash your technical ingenuity and business acumen in the professional world - with the support, expertise and backing of one of the world's leading technology companies. Extreme Blue at IBM isn’t your average internship. It’s a race against time - with the 12-week timeline compelling you to prove your creativity, passion and knowledge to deliver some of the most innovative solutions to real business challenges.

Your task? Work in a team of 4 to develop an idea to address a real-world challenge confronting part of IBM's business – and then turn that idea into a real product. When the 12 weeks are up, you’ll showcase it to our executives, business partners and clients. Expectations will be high and the results will be scrutinised closely. So, it’s not an easy ride – but we guarantee it’ll be an incredible experience. To find out more about these roles, and to apply, please scroll down to ‘Explore Job Opportunities’.

What we offer

• Business and technology roles
• A salary of £15,000 (pro rata)
• Free accommodation with the other Extreme Blue students near to IBM Hursley in Hampshire.
• A beautiful campus setting at IBM Hursley (one of the largest software laboratories in Europe) filled with brilliant people to inspire you.
• Loads of facilities such as a gym, tennis courts, playing fields and a Club House to relax.
• The potential to have a patent submission on your CV (pretty impressive).
• An expenses paid trip to showcase your ideas at the Extreme Blue Expo in one of 7 countries around Europe.

Technical

As a technical student, Extreme Blue will give you the opportunity to work on an innovative technology project. You'll build on your existing IT skills and learn new ones. Your role as one of the technical students in the project will be to develop a IT-based solution that meets your customers' needs. You'll have the chance to work with leading edge technologies and be mentored by leading IT professionals. You'll find out more about how IBM and the IT industry work, and how IT can contribute to competitive advantage or be used for the good of the community, perhaps by contributing to the open source community. You'll need to apply your technical aptitude to design, architect, develop and test your product among your technical peers, while never losing sight of your customers and the end goal. 

Business

As a business student, Extreme Blue will give you the opportunity to run your very own micro-business within IBM. You’ll take new technologies and will tailor these to meet the demands of IBM and its clients and develop a real business offering…. all in 12 weeks! Remember, there is only one Business student per team so your role in the process will mainly involve project management. You’ll be responsible for keeping the team working to schedule and ensuring that objectives and targets are being met. Maybe more importantly though you’ll also liaise with our clients - both internally to IBM and externally, to determine what features are required by potential customers for the product you are working on to ensure that as a team you are developing a solution that meets the clients’ needs and that at the end of the 12 weeks you have a product that customers will be excited about. So, you’ll have lots of responsibility but think of it as a fantastic and unique opportunity to really show us what you can do.

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