Microsoft 4Afrika Retail Internship


Advertiser: Microsoft
Location: National

Governments and societies worldwide are increasingly recognizing the importance of developing their education systems to enable their economies and citizens to build sustainable economies and be able to compete globally. Within any country typically 15% to 30% of the population are part of the education eco system - whether this be students, educators, administrators, education elites (incl. government policy advisors) or government officials. This community has a huge impact on how technology is adopted and used to prepare the next generation work force and is central to driving social and economic advancement of governments around the world.

There are many internal groups across Microsoft with an interest in education; these are brought together under the leadership of the Subsidiary Microsoft Partners in Learning Education Alliance Leadership Team.

This team, under the guidance of the Education Leader, are responsible for ensuring Microsoft's success in approaching education as 'One Microsoft', executing co-ordinated plans, exceeding our customers expectations and delivering against our goals of transforming education, fostering local innovation and creating jobs and opportunities.

This leadership position will provide strategic leadership to the subsidiary for Education, management and execution of Microsofts plans and other programs in education across the subsidiary including 'dotted line' responsibility for Education Alliance v-team stakeholders. It will be the internal leader and external face of Microsoft's plans to help transform education and execute on its vision of 'Help students and educators throughout the world realize their full potential'.

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.