summer work experience?

badgerbaiter

Anyone know of anyplace i could do work exp during summer 2012?
Im an electronic eng student in cork.
Willing to do it for nothing too :-)

godtabh

badgerbaiter wrote: »

Willing to do it for nothing too :-)

Thats a given these days.

Send your cv out to all companies in the golden pages. Only way to do it unless you know some one.

Have you asked your college for contacts?

badgerbaiter

I asked the collage and they were no help
i jus wondered if anyone knew where usually takes students

Might I suggest looking abroad? It would look great on the aul' CV. Apart from that the City/County Councils used to take a few people on each summer but I've no idea if they still do. Private companies are most definitely cutting back - in my present place, we took on one guy for the summer, but he was a recent graduate.

But yes, ask all your lecturers, they must have contacts in the industry who should be able to point them in the right direction. I heard talk before about some wind energy companies down in SW Cork/Kerry who weren't doing terribly these days, so do look all around the country!

brownacid

badgerbaiter wrote: »

Anyone know of anyplace i could do work exp during summer 2012?
Im an electronic eng student in cork.
Willing to do it for nothing too :-)

if you're willing to go abroad, check out jaguar. They offer a 3 month placement and are currently looking to increase their electronic/electrical engineers. The offer bursaries to the leccies and if you do well enough you will more than likely be offered a position for when you graduate. So the guy at a talk I was at on monday was saying anyway

pljudge321

badgerbaiter wrote: »

Anyone know of anyplace i could do work exp during summer 2012?
Im an electronic eng student in cork.
Willing to do it for nothing too :-)

Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, S3, Intel, ESB, ESBI, IBM, Siemens, Bord Gais, Bord na Mona, Eirgrid and probably a bunch of other small companies all take undergrad interns for the summer. They pay you too.

pljudge321

brownacid wrote: »

if you're willing to go abroad, check out jaguar. They offer a 3 month placement and are currently looking to increase their electronic/electrical engineers. The offer bursaries to the leccies and if you do well enough you will more than likely be offered a position for when you graduate. So the guy at a talk I was at on monday was saying anyway

I'd second this, they seem pretty desperate for people.

Michael Collins

godtabh wrote: »

Thats a given these days.

Only if people don't ask for it. A vast majority of companies out there have enough money to pay you, and they should.

pljudge321

Michael Collins wrote: »

Only if people don't ask for it. A vast majority of companies out there have enough money to pay you, and they should.

Pretty much everyone in my class who made a decent effort at getting an internship got one, they were all paid as well.