General Electric Early Career Development Programme


Advertiser: General Electric
Location: Midrand

GE Africa’s Early Career Development Programme (ECDP) is a newly created twelve month leadership program designed to give recent university / college graduates challenging work assignments, training and development, and exposure to leadership. The programme combines hands on experience with formal classroom training to equip participants with the tools and knowledge to become leaders in GE.

Positions will be within the Global Growth & Operations (GG&O) Business based in South Africa and is open to recent university / college students with interest in 1) Supply Chain Sourcing, 2) Information Technology (IT) or 3) Human Resources / Talent Management & Branding.

As valuable members of our team, ECDP participants will receive many benefits including:
- Challenging work assignments
- Business mentors
- Leadership training
- Essential skills training
- Functional training
- Opportunities to network with Leaders and other ECDP members

Qualifications / Requirements:
- Recent college / university graduate with no more than 2 years’ work experience / or with national service discharge (relevant degrees and / or work experience preferred).
- For Human Resources function - previous relevant / related Human Resources / Recruitment experience.
- Authorized to work in your country full-time and without restriction
- 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
- Excellent organization skills, ability to independently prioritize multiple tasks and work to deadlines

Desired Characteristics:
- Demonstrated leadership ability
- Less than two years previous work experience.
- A post graduate degree in a relevant field will be an advantage
- High performer with a passion to achieve positive business results
- Curiosity and desire to learn and expand skill set
- Flexible, adaptable, and open to change.

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.