Accenture Technology Internship 2015


Advertiser: Accenture
Location: Pretoria

On our Accenture Technology Internship, you can expect to be immersed in live project work from the first month of joining. Intense and rewarding, the placement allows you to make your first mark on a vast global business, while forming connections with exceptional people at every level.

After a few weeks spent on a formal induction, you’ll embark on a training programme in our Academy at our Delivery Centre in Centurion. You’ll study technologies including Java and SAP (ABAP).Then we’ll assign you to a project where you’ll build your skills ‘on the job’. By the end of the six to eight months, you should come away with some valuable skills. If you’re passionate about innovation in technology, this is the placement for you. To join our Accenture Technology Internship, you’ll need to have or be predicted to receive a 65 percent average in the required degree discipline. We currently have opportunities for people to join us in January 2015. If you have already graduated, and want to start your graduate career, apply now.

The progression of our people is fundamental to everything we do. This is as true for students who join us on the Accenture Technology Internship as for our graduates and full-time employees. Your starting point will be our formal induction programme. It’s a way to welcome you into the Delivery Centre that has been designed not only to give you an overview of our work, the processes, tools and packages we use, but also to introduce you to your potential future colleagues.

After your training programme, it’s on to your first assignment. This is the opportunity to put what you learnt in the classroom into practice and supplement that formal training with on the-job skills building that will help you keep pace with changing technologies.

Application requirements:
- Updated copy of your CV
- Latest academic record
- Certified copy of South African ID.

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.