Seventeen graduates will benefit from foreign internships that IBM will be offering as part of the Vertical Strategic Alliance the Ministry for Industry, Investment and IT made with IBM last year. The alliance of a number of educational and industry initiatives is aimed to contribute to the attainment of Malta’s targets in the National ICT strategy, the growth of local information society and the engendering of the local ICT industry.
IBM is offering high-performing Information Technology, Computer Studies and Business Administration Graduates, the opportunity of working abroad in Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Israel for three to 12-month periods during 2007 and 2008.
Four internships will be offered at IBM’s Tivoli Lab in Rome. The selected candidates will gain first-hand working experience in this software development laboratory, which has the worldwide mission of developing and maintaining software products. Internships will be four to six months long.
Ten internships of one year will be provided with IBM Business Consulting Services in Spain and Switzerland for Information Technology or Business Administration graduates. Selected candidates will work on real IT Projects with experienced consultants who apply innovative thinking, practical tools, services and high-powered technologies to unearth business value to develop action plans and solve organisations’ business issues.
Three internships will be offered at the IBM Haifa Research Lab in Israel, which has over 600 employees who contribute to the innovative capacity of IBM in areas focused on healthcare, mobile service technology, collaboration technology, digital media, complex event processing, business optimisation, information mining, distributed systems, storage management, high availability and others. With IBM Haifa Research Lab, an internship of one year and two internships of three months are being offered.
Those interested in obtaining hands-on international work experience should visit www.miti.gov.mt for further information and register their interest by not later than Friday 8 June.