Entersekt Internship


Advertiser: Entersekt
Location: Stellenbosch

Entersekt is a young, dynamic and fast-growing software company, currently looking for a number of people to join the development team in Stellenbosch, outside Cape Town, South Africa.

We employ both experienced and first-time job seekers.

Entersekt offers comprehensive on-the-job training and mentorship to help you grow in an exciting career.

We encourage a creative, collaborative and supportive work environment.

We want to empower each and every one of our employees to have an impact on making the online world a safer place, and our benefits reflect our unique culture.

Internship benefits @ Entersekt:
- Software Engineering is what you studied – come learn about how it’s done in real life.
- We’re offering you exposure to a real software product company, not just a company’s IT department.
- Get one on one coaching from our awesome team of Software Engineers
- Work with the latest software tech and hardware gadgets. (This includes Mobile, Security and Cloud infrastructure, running at large scale.)
- You will be involved in assisting our team in building prototypes
- You will get on the spot as well as group training opportunities and education assistance
- Free lunch on Fridays in our Cafeteria and chill area (You can also come and enjoy a game or two of Foosball and PS3 with some of our resident champions)
- Get some valuable insight from our more experienced and established Developers and Team Leaders about their career paths and lessons they learnt on the road to becoming great at what they do.
- Competitive compensation during your holiday internship at Entersekt.
- Exposure to Agile software development processes, as well as engineering practices such as Continuous integration, source control, test automation and more.

Internship tasks:
- For every round we choose real work that we actually plan to use.
- Not just activities that will keep you busy.
- Each intern gets a unique task.

In the past, interns have worked on some of the following type of activities:
- Monitoring Alert system
- Automated Software Library review
- Incoming Modem SMS parsing solution
- SoapUI plug-in of a new protocol to support our Test Automation.
- Mobile Application on our SDK (Software Development Kit)

Internship requirements:
- Computer Science and Engineering students (3rd year and Honours students)
- Ready and willing to make a change in the world
- Well spoken English / Afrikaans skills
- Eager to learn
- Flexible

Closing date: 31 May 2014

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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.