Associate Consultant Placement
by Microsoft
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Associate Consultant Placement
- Supports our enterprise customers to get the best from their technology choices.
- Empowering them to create better software.
- Adopting the cloud, improving security, reducing risks across their entire software development lifecycle.
- Delivering business insight and offering support to the team.
When you do an internship with us you will come into a real job role and belong to an established team, receive a full induction as well as on the job coaching, mentoring and personal development. Based in Reading, London or Edinburgh you’ll have an unforgettable year working in any number of roles and areas. From data analyst roles to PR and marketing, sales and technical roles, no matter what you are studying there is a place for you at Microsoft.
Stretch (Extra) Projects
On top of your day-to-day role, you also have the chance to get involved in a variety of stretch projects. Stretch projects are in addition to your job role and unique to the intern program. They include teams that evangelize about our exciting technology to external audiences, support on impactful citizenship projects, help with diversity events and fundraising activities and work on business impact projects with senior leaders. There are also opportunities to manage blogs, design apps and undertake internal projects, whatever your passion is there is a stretch project for you.
Training
We’ll help you make the most of your talents with training that looks something like this:
- 70% learning on the job
- 20% learning from your manager, peers and mentor
- 10% learning through structured courses and role-specific training
Day to Day Responsibility:
- 1 day: team operations/planning/reporting: responsible for keeping track of all sales opportunities that come to our team. This consists of liaising with the consultants on the team and getting useful updates on potential contracts on a regular basis, then reporting about these contracts weekly to the manager.
- 2.5 days: software development: Half of the week would be spent doing standard development work. This involved using our Azure Dev Ops site to take user stories, make branches on a repository and produce work to check-in.
- 0.5 days: self-development + upskilling: Microsoft has a keen policy that 10% of an employee’s time should be spent learning new things. spend this time to ramp up in technologies you’re working with (such as Azure).
- 1 day: Side project: As Interns we have an obligation to involve ourselves in side projects (internally dubbed “101 teams”). These projects are tangential to our primary roles and encompass a variety of different skills.
About Microsoft
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. We believe we should each find meaning in our work and we ensure employees have the freedom and the reach to help make a difference in the world.
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