Information for Employers
"Only recruiting staff with relevant work experience doesn't work well in the long-term. Developing strong potential with a student can be more rewarding." Vineet Bhalla - Guinness.
Each year the School of Informatics places over a hundred undergraduate students with employers on either;
The School also places a number of postgraduate students on 6 month internships
All City students are comfortable using IT and can help support existing systems or create new ones. They have skills in programming (typically Visual Basic, JAVA and HTML) and in systems analysis and design. They are looking for placement work that will give them the opportunity to develop their technical, business and personal skills.
A break down of specific skills students may posess are presented below:
- Microsoft Windows (all versions, incl. NT4, XP Pro, etc.)
- Unix
- Linux
- Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003
- Microsoft Visual Studio 6
- Borland JBuilder 2005
- Borland Together Control Centre 6.2
- MS Office 97, 2000 and XP (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint, etc.)
- Macromedia Dreamweaver
- Macromedia Fireworks
- Macromedia Flash
- Adobe Photoshop
- MS Works
- Rational Rose
- Java / Java Script
- Visual Basic
- HTML
- SQL/Oracle
- C++
- C
- Prolog
Operating Systems:
Software Packages:
Programming Languages:
City IT students take one of the undergraduate courses offered by the Department of Computing. Although limited in practical experience, all students have received a thorough grounding in IT and are quickly able to make a useful contribution.
Students offer both intelligence and enthusiasm while employers offer experience and team integration, forming a mutually beneficial partnership.
"I would like to emphasise that Gareth has been invaluable to us ... our computer network would not be running as efficiently without his work and ability."
Gail Chard - Dagenham Priory School.