GE Transportation Internship Programme 2014


Advertiser: General Electric
Location: Midrand

We are GE. We’re a global infrastructure, finance and media company taking on the world’s toughest challenges. And we are taking the strengths that have made us an industry leader and putting them to work in service of a new era of global business, with a focus on the world and the people we share it with. Through initiatives like ecomagination and healthymagination, we are developing the next generation of products and services to improve the way we use resources, impact our communities and care for each other.

Join GE and you’ll discover a career opportunity of incredible diversity - across disciplines and around the globe. No other company invests in the development, training and advancement of its employees the way we do, because we believe it is our innovative thinking that is our strength, and that strength is what enables GE to make a positive impact on tomorrow, today. From jet engines to power generation, financial services to water processing, and medical imaging to turning imaginative ideas into leading products and services. GE is imagination at work.

GE Africa’s Pre - Early Career Development Program (Pre ECDP/ EID Intern) is a newly created three to twelve month program designed to give undergraduate university/college student challenging work assignments, training and development, and exposure to leadership for them to complete their qualification. The program combines hands on experience to equip participants with the tools and knowledge to qualify for their education.

Positions will be within the GE Business based in Sub Sahara Africa and is open to undergraduate university / college students with interest in Engineering, Mechanical. Electrical, Instrumentation in transportation.

Qualifications / Requirements:
- Undergraduate S4 engineering Qualification outstanding in P1&P2.
- Authorized to work in your country full-time and without restriction
- Vacation / summer internship
Must have an advanced to fluent level of English
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment
- Demonstrated team player
- Confident self-starter who has demonstrated drive.

Closing date: Not indicated in advert

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Definitions:

Internship:

There are basically two types of internships:

  • The Undergraduate Internship: Usually with bigger organisations that pick undergraduates to attend the internship. It often takes places during the holidays and the average durations is a few weeks. In most cases the intern will receive some sort of stipend or salary and this type of internship may lead to a job offer to the intern once he / she is finished with their studies.
  • The Graduate Internship: This type of internship could be paid or unpaid and it is to gain practical work experience after the qualification has been completed and in a job related to the qualification. It could be from a few weeks or even one or two years long. This type of internship could also lead to permanent employment.

Learnerships:

A learnership is an occupational qualification and it consists of theory and work-based experience and practical skills, with formal assessment and a qualification. At the end of the learnership the candidate may be offered permanent employment.

In-service training:

In-service training is to gain practical work experience during studies. It usually takes place after a few years of theory has been successfully completed. It is essential work experience that is part of the qualification and the in-service training is necessary to achieve the qualification. It could be paid or unpaid.