Job opportunities: Want to get into IT but have no experience or qualifications?

Josh · 8 Jul 2019 at 17:03

Thanks Burnsy I'll pass it along.

flibbage0 · 16 Jul 2019 at 15:08

Burnsy2023 said:
I work for the Ordnance Survey and one of the best things we do is our IT Trainee programme. It's 12 months long and you'll learn how to engineer or test enterprise quality software by the end of it. It doesn't require any qualifications or technical experience, instead we look at your ability to learn, communicate and take into consideration any side projects. For example, we had someone download some open source software to a Raspberry Pi and use it for home automation. It wasn't much but it demonstrated loads of things we're after. We are also looking for one to specialise in Cyber Security - some very valuable skills.

It's one of the few programmes that will take someone with no experience and start them off on £25k.

Whilst we're known for paper maps, that's a tiny part of the Business. We really do work on cutting edge technology doing things that nobody else has done before.

If you're interested. Take a look here: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/careers/start-career/it-trainees.html

Congratulations to those that have got to the interview stage, unfortunately I didn't get that far, probably need to do some basic IT courses

Shawreyboy · 17 Jul 2019 at 10:04

@Burnsy2023 Very much interested in this as recently moved to Salisbury so quite close to Southampton. I will get an application in assuming I am still able to as the application process is still on the website.

Shawrey

Burnsy2023 · 17 Jul 2019 at 11:56

Shawreyboy said:
@Burnsy2023 Very much interested in this as recently moved to Salisbury so quite close to Southampton. I will get an application in assuming I am still able to as the application process is still on the website.

Shawrey

Yes, we're reviewing applications but it hasn't closed yet.

flibbage0 said:
Congratulations to those that have got to the interview stage, unfortunately I didn't get that far, probably need to do some basic IT courses

I'm sure your CV was better than the person who uploaded a shipping manifest instead of their CV.

flibbage0 · 18 Jul 2019 at 10:52

Burnsy2023 said:
Yes, we're reviewing applications but it hasn't closed yet.

I'm sure your CV was better than the person who uploaded a shipping manifest instead of their CV.

Maybe the manifest was more impressive than their CV

Oxide™ · 18 Jul 2019 at 12:26

Hi Burnsy

I'm currently a tester in Financial Services - do you know if there are any remote testing roles available at OS please?

my email if you prefer that is brentsa at hotmail dot com