Industrial Training
Part of my uni course is 18 months of industrial training (scattered throughout the 4 years). The first 6 months start next year. They handed out the preference forms last week – where we list which companies we’d like to go to from the 40 or so sponsors available (big list to choose from… companies like PWC, IBM, Telstra, Com Tech, Oracle, Lotus etc). Funnily enough, no one wants to go to the RTA. I chose Com Tech, Aspect, Advantra and EDS as my top 4 prefs. If I get either the first or second, I’ll be looking for accreditation of sorts – maybe even Cisco certification, but that may be pushing it. Might have to settle for the +I bit to my MCSE, A+ cert or Novell cert. Of course, that’s assuming I get those companies. There are limited spots, and the faculty provides 5 days for us to swap companies with each other. There will be sparks flying… Com Tech and PWC are the more popular ones… anyone with those will be powerbrokers if they decide they don’t want to go to those companies ultimately. I should be told which company I’m to go to in 2 weeks time.
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