Job Purpose/Summary
Taylor Wimpey is now recruiting for our 2017 IT Graduate Programme beginning in September 2017. The scheme aims to provide the successful applicant with a strong commercial grounding and an introduction to Information Technology within a FTSE 100 business. The IT Graduate Programme (ITGP) runs for a period of two years in which the graduate will receive a mixture of both operational and IT experiences working in the IT department, whilst actively working closely with our 5,000 business colleagues.
The graduate will also gain professional development for both soft and hard skills through attending internal and external training programmes, for example, IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Managing Successful Programmes (MSP).
In addition, we will also support the graduate to maintain their continuous professional development record with the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.
The aim of the scheme is to place graduates into permanent management positions at the end of a 2 year programme and for those outstanding individuals fast track your development to a leadership role within 5 years.
Graduate Scheme Outline
The programme is broken into three rotations:
- IT Partnering: 4 months
- IT Business Change: 8 months
- IT Service Management: 12 months
In summary, the graduate will commence in the IT Partnering teams where they will learn about the business as a whole, subsequently, they will undertake a role on project delivery and conclude with providing a Busienss as Usual IT service to the business. You will spend each rotation within the IT department but working in collaboration with our head office and regional business units. The timings of the rotations will have some flexibility, to allow for holidays and business demands.
You will also have the opportunity to undertake more general commercial projects to widen your business breadth throughout the programme. Included but not limited to:
- Coprate Social Responsibilty project
- Graduate Business Case challenge
- Graduate networking events
What are the measures of success for this scheme?
Graduates will be measured against the graduate key behaviours in 6 monthly reviews for each rotation.
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Experience, Qualifications, Technical Requirements, Education
Required/Preferred
1st or 2:1 degree - Required
Full driving license and access to a car - Required
Eligible to work in the UK - Required
IT related degree - Preferred
Commercial experience or placement within a bluechip organisation - Preferred
Key Behaviours
Resilience - The ability to recover quickly from challenging situations and provide effective solutions to problems
Collaboration - Comfortable working in a team on various projects and takes constructive criticism. Able to influence others where appropriate
Accountability - Take full responsibility for own actions and can offer justification for them when required
Risk taking - Comfortable taking calculated risks when appropriate and can learn from previous mistakes
Challenging - Willing to challenge the norm, that are not afraid to speak their mind when they believe it is appropriate and that will make their voice heard when they firmly believe they are in the right
Ambitious - Strong desire to succeed, both professionally and personally and have a clear plan on how to achieve objectives
Solution-focused - Draws effective and valid conclusions based on analysis
Resilience& Perseverance - Can identify alternative approaches to achieve the objective and will push others to achieve.
Pace & Energy - Shows passion and enthusiasm to meet objectives quickly and effectively