09/05/2012
Careers & Employability Rep/Volunteer
Limited volunteering opportunities for highly creative and keen individuals who want to boost their employability skills and experience. Careers & Employability are offering 10 places for volunteers to get some experience working with their Marketing Team. See attached document for more details.
27/04/2012
Technology Entrepreneurship
The Alacrity Foundation are looking for the next generation of scientists and engineers who are going to create a new generation of British Hi-Tech companies. They are offering graduates a unique internship opportunity;
- to acquire unrivalled mentoring and training from chief designers, architects and software engineers
- work on exciting leading edge technologies
- to have an equity stake in your own start-up company and create your own job
Alacrity provides successful candidates the opportunity of a lifetime to join the Foundation’s ‘boot camp’. The Alacrity ‘boot camp’ is a proven methodology for commercializing technology and for creating successful companies. Alacrity projects are at the leading edge of technology and offer opportunities for new standards to be created, new methods and process to be developed and the potential for the patenting of products. You will have a unique opportunity to work on innovative projects using the latest software development tools and methodologies requiring creative problem solving. Graduates have the opportunity to transform innovative project ideas (sourced from global industry partners) into market leading products and to be founders of a start-up company. Graduates will have the opportunity to work in areas such as;
- designing mobile apps for iPhone/iPad and Android devices amongst other platforms
- developing rich graphical interfaces and video/image streaming and processing
- machine to machine (M2M) and inter process communications
- speech recognition and synthesis
Subject matter of the projects will be focused primarily on software, targeting technology areas including telecommunications, cloud services and mobile applications -areas for which the Foundation’s industry partners have most influence in global markets. The relationship with global industry partners is what makes Alacrity’s internship unique and exceptional as projects are customer driven with a high probability of success that triggers the incorporation into a start-up company. Successful graduates will have an equity stake in the company and most importantly access to venture capital funding.
The project work is varied and intellectually challenging that may require you to learn new languages and techniques. The added bonus is that your application will likely be used by many thousands of people. You will have the chance to see how the software and products you create has impact across a vast range of market sectors.
Participants receive a tax free stipend of £13,800 during their 9-12 months on the programme and they gain real world technology product development experience, learn best practices and build an exceptional network from seasoned and successful entrepreneurs. Skills and knowledge are gained in a variety of business and technology disciplines that equip the participants to manage the operations of a new technology company upon project completion.
Application for Internship
If you have the conviction, personality and ability to be included in the Alacrity programme they would like to hear from you. In addition to personal qualities we are looking for the following criteria;
1. You must have graduated within the last 2 years
2. Graduates with an engineering, science or computer science background that have experience of software programming (preferably C/C#/C++ or Java)
To apply, click here.
25/04/2012
Perfect Revision Activity: “HOW TO MAKE A $1BILLION BRAND” Today 3:30PM-4:30PM E46.
19/04/2012
The Grad Factor – An opportunity for budding Cardiff University student entrepreneurs
‘The Grad Factor’ – the first university student digital TV show dedicated to graduate employment and student enterprise & entrepreneurship in the UK is to be screened from April 2012. The show creators are pleased to announce that they will be heading to Cardiff to film one of the shows on 25th April 2012!
The show will visit five different regions, examining differing industry sectors at each. The makers of the show will be visiting Cardiff next Wednesday and will be examining entrepreneurship in relation to the legal sector. As part of its ‘Grad Den’ section of the show, the makers hope to showcase three exciting Cardiff student business enterprises, the most popular of which will have a chance of appearing in a grand series finale in London in June 2012.
If you would like to get involved, please email hello@gradfactor.co.uk. You will need to declare whether you are looking to pitch for financial investment to get your business moving, offering a stake of the company in return – or whether you are already trading and are therefore presenting your product or service for the additional promotion and customer interest and gain the show will provide.
More about the show:
‘The Grad Factor’ – an engaging topical show that will offer students tips and advice on graduate employment, providing new work experience opportunities and live interviews with graduate employers. How graduates get jobs, what firms look for, how to succeed in job searches and interviews, and providing crucial insights into firms across various different sectors. The show will also champion student entrepreneurship providing mentoring and start up support to new student enterprises from around the UK.
‘The Grad Den’ – similar to Dragon’s Den this segment of the show will champion student entrepreneurship. Budding student entrepreneurs will be invited onto the show to pitch their business ideas to a live student audience from a particular region. It will showcase and link local entrepreneurs and local universities and lead onto a Grand Final to be filmed from London where the most popular student entrepreneurs as voted for by the university student population will pitch to a panel of successful entrepreneurs to win investment and mentorship to get their business off the ground.
05/04/2012
20 days to Spark2012
6 Easy steps | 10 Questions | £5000 Prize
Cardiff University’s annual Idea Competition, Spark2012 will kick off in 20 days time (25 May 2012). This year’s competition will see current students contest for prizes under 3 categories (IDEAS, PLAN & VENTURES) and one prize for the most popular idea as voted by the public.
Students will also get the opportunity to apply and get feedback online for their entries, attend relevant workshops and get support from the Enterprise Team.
Watch the space. Details to follow.
02/04/2012
Computer Science Work Placement Opportunity
SEO Work Placement Opportunity
There is an opportunity for a third year undergraduate student who has experience with search engine optimization, to have a part-time work placement. That can be used to aid your dissertation and for your future CV. Days of work are flexible to suit you.
The candidate we are looking for is someone who will be able to apply SEO to our company website, ensuring our website is viewed often and appears at the top of any search for our services. The position will involve applying skills to a real business, to improve its quantity of website traffic and enhance web marketing. The role will require you to write blogs, current news reviews of the field, and to update and strengthen the current website. Crucially, it is a role to apply your own SEO skills, not a training course.
The SEO skills required include:
• The ability to increase search ratings
• The ability to increase keyword density
• Skilled at writing blogs and communicating on forums
• The ability to get the website indexed by the search engines
• The ability to increase the prominence of the website and company
• The ability to write articles to promote the business
• The ability to assess current social media and suggest alternatives/better methods
• The ability to critique Google Analytics and report on this from your first day’s assessment to the assessment once you leave the placement
Personal skills required include:
• Attention to detail
• Good communication skills in the office
• Good time keeping
• The ability to understand a potentially difficult field of science
• Be prepared to research the industry online
If you would like to register your interest please contact Student Enterprise (third floor of Student Union building on Park Place) or email at enterprise@cardiff.ac.uk
30/03/2012
BBC3 Be Your Own Boss – Last chance to apply!
The countdown to the application closing deadline for BBC Three’s Be Your Own Boss starts now…
Budding entrepreneurs with amazing business ideas have until Sunday 8th April to apply.
Richard Reed, co-founder of innocent Drinks, has up to £1million that he is making available to entrepreneurs with brilliant business ideas.
This could be a life changing opportunity. Check out Be Your Own Boss and apply before it’s too late.
Apply for your slice of Richard Reed’s investment fund, up to £1m available: http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/beonashow/
The application process is open for a limited time so if you’ve got a great business idea apply today!
See our previous blog posts about the show: 13th March & 15th March
Follow Be Your Own Boss on twitter: @BYOBoss_BBC3
Join the Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Be-Your-Own-Boss-BBC-Three/365962350095405
19/03/2012
Do you make the difference?
Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) are recruiting for Summer projects and for Autumn 2012. They need energies students, like YOU! Check out this short video.
As part of SIFE you will have the opportunity to run a real life social enterprise project that aims to help those in need through the power of enterprise. This could be consulting an existing charity on how they can improve their business impact or helping young carers set up their very own business. It’s an excellent way to boost your CV, meet like minded people and network with our sponsors such as HSBC, Waitrose and KPMG and have fun.
Join SIFE today and make a real difference.
15/03/2012
BBC3′s Be Your Own Boss! – Hot off the press
Further to our previous post regarding the new BBC3 show “Be Your Own Boss” comes this BBC press release issued today:
BBC Three commissions a new high stakes entrepreneurial show with Richard Reed.
The ultimate search for hot new business-blooded talent is on.
In “BE YOUR OWN BOSS”(working title) leading entrepreneur and co-founder of Innocent Drinks, Richard Reed, is on the hunt for the next generation of start-up superstars – and he’s got up to £1million to invest in the right people with the best ideas.
It took the faith and investment of one man to turn Richard and his friends’ idea into a multi-million-pound empire. Now he wants to do the same for a new wave of young entrepreneurs, bringing passion, high stakes and opportunity to the cream of young British business talent.
The search is on for groups of friends with killer ideas, hungry for a shot at life-changing investment.
The series kicks off with an attention-grabbing test of entrepreneurial skill when Richard hands the 500 best applicants some cash to see just how easily they can turn a profit. Disregarding traditional elimination formats, Richard will draw on his own business philosophy to help determine who should have a chance at the kind of big money that turns business dreams into reality.
Richard Reed said: “Setting up and running innocent with my friends has been a life-enhancing adventure. That’s why I’m excited to be part of this new series giving others the chance to have the same experience, starting their own business and setting them up to become successful entrepreneurs.”
Apply for your slice of Richard Reed’s investment fund, up to £1m available http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/beonashow/
The application process is open for a limited time so if you’ve got a great business idea apply today!
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