The new year is a time for new beginings, and for some that means a new job. We thought now might be a good time to remind you that the Nestoria team is on the look out for sharp interns.
The technical details, (and most importantly a discussion of the type of attitude we're looking for) are all available on our jobs page.
What we're looking for hasn't changed since we first drafted that description many months ago; be fun to work with, have some knowledge of perl and mysql on a unix/linux platform, and above all have a desire to work hard and learn a lot.
What has changed over the last few months is that we've had a great group of interns join our team.
Here's what some of them worked on and have to say:
Alex Balhatchet, currently at Imperial College, spent the summer with us up to his elbows in perl, working with big data sets on issues like data quality and scalability. On Alex's blog you can find this quote about his time at Nestoria:
.. if anyone reading this is interested I can only say go for it, I had a great time over summer and the working environment is the best I've ever experienced - Casual clothes, not-too-early starts, always friendly and willing to help.
James King was with us last summer and is now back at University of Leeds. While at Nestoria James led our efforts on relevancy and user testing, but also displayed an amazing "can do" attitude whatever task he was faced with - to include finding a new office for the team! Although he's a full time student James is using some of the tricks he learned at Nestoria to launch his own website StudentsWork which will pair students with charitable organisations. Look for it to launch soon. From James:
I've employed many techniques learnt at Nestoria to design our site to be. I'm pretty busy with classes and getting StudentWorks off the ground, but it got known that I had worked for Nestoria, friends speak to friends and so on. Next thing I know, family friends' friends who own businesses which have websites are ringing me up. All sorts of people rang up, they visited Nestoria and have seen how it has developed in the past months and have requested my help, be it end user testing, site layout, advertising, management of a web team, whatever their internet needs may be!
Ahmed Badr, a student at Cass Business School, is still with us on a part-time basis, and attentive readers will recognize his name as a regular contributor here on the blog. Besides taking the lead with the blog Ahmed did a variety of things from business analysis to graphic design.
So, if you're looking for a place you can work with great people, be part of building something innovative, and learn an immense amount quickly, please have a look at our internship position descriptions, and, if you're qualified (and please don't waste your time, only apply if you are qualified - read the position description carefully), please get in touch.
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Hi,
Are you specifically looking for Americans to fill your positions? Cause ‘intern’ to me means ‘training to be doctor’. Okay, I know yanks call IT graduates ‘interns’, but for me intern means doctor. Or Dilbert. Sorry.
If you wanted to recruit in the UK, you would want a graduate.
Perhaps this is my Australianism peaking out. Although I’ve been in the UK for 6 years and never heard anyone in the IT industry use ‘intern’ except when they’re describing an episode of Scrubs.
So, since I think you guys are pretty switched on, the only conclusion I can come to is that you really want an American, or whoever wrote this description is American - it would be wise of him/her to show he/her understands the local lingo for at least as far as writing an ad for placement on your blog.
Not to say that I would be an appropriate employee for this position (10 years exp), but I can tell you I’d be turned off by that ad on face value, which is a shame because you guys are doing great stuff technically and business wise.
Hi Sean,
thanks for your detailed comment, and glad you think we’re “switched on”.
You’re right, with 10 years experience, you’re not appropriate for the position ;-). All of our former interns are English, so I guess some folks managed to figure it out. That being said, our team is pretty diverse, and we’re open to any qualified applicant applying, regardless of nationality or medical training (or lack thereof).
Happy New Year’s
Ed
I see that the BBC uses the term: http://www.bbc.co.uk/jobs/workexperience/faq.shtml#10
Good work guys, shame I’m a little old to be an intern