BMW South Africa Graduate Programme 2015


Advertiser: BMW
Location: Gauteng

Your perfect start: as a Graduate Trainee with the BMW Group. BMW South Africa offers motivated graduates within Engineering, Information Technology and Commerce discipline the opportunity to join the company on a 24-month fixed term placement.

Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in the relevant field of study
- A Post Graduate Degree is highly advantageous
- Less than 2 years work experience
- Computer literacy
- Dynamic and adaptable
- A keen intellectual ability
- Fluency in English
- SA Citizenship is required

Job Specification:
- If you like working in teams and are prepared to take on responsibility, there are attractive tasks and individual assignments waiting for you.
- Your personal mentor, an experienced manager, will be on hand to support you in finding a professional direction that is right for you and will guide you to develop your individual strengths.
- Our focus will be Industrial, Supply Chain & Logistics, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Disciplines
- Within commerce discipline our focus will be Marketing, Communications and Business Management.

Closing date: 31 July 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.