GraceKennedy Internship Programme 2025!

 

THE GRACEKENNEDY INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME

We are now inviting recent 2024 graduates from local tertiary institutions to apply for the 2025 GraceKennedy Internship Programme. This Internship begins in January 2025 and will run for one (1) year.

DIGICEL SUMMER INTERNSHIP 2024 (Jamaica, W.I.)

About Digicel

Enabling customers to live, work, play and flourish in a connected world, Digicel’s world class LTE and fibre networks deliver state-of-the-art mobile, home and business solutions.

Serving 10 million consumer and business customers in 25 markets in the Caribbean and Central America, its investments of over US$5 billion and a commitment to its communities through its Digicel Foundations in Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago have contributed to positive outcomes for over 2 million people to date.

With the Better Connected ethos at the heart of everything, its 5,000 employees worldwide work together to make that a powerful reality for customers, communities and countries day in, day out.

Digicel also delivers news, sports broadcasting, digital media and financial services in several of its markets.

Visit www.digicelgroup.com for more.

Role: Digicel Internship Programme

Internship - Systematic Land Registration Programme (Jamaica) - National Land Agency

National Land Agency

Internship-Systematic Land Registration Programme

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for a One (1) year internship within the Adjudication Services Division, National Land Agency.

The successful candidate will report to the legal officer 3

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Interviews landowners in order to determine ownership rights in accordance with The Registration of Titles Cadastral Mapping and Tenure Clarification (Special Provisions) (Amendment) Act.
• Interviews neighbours and community members in order to get confirmation that the landowner has been in open, undisturbed and undisputed possession of land for upwards of Twelve (12) years.
• Inputs data in the Systematic Adjudication System (SAS) in order to facilitate generation of Systematic Adjudications, Supporting Declarations, Adjudication Records etc.
• Thoroughly vets data on the SAS to ensure completeness and accuracy of data.
• Execute searches (Certificates of Title/Instruments/Documents etc.) on Eland Jamaica, Land Valuation System (LVS) and Document Scanning System.
• Assists in mounting the display of Adjudication Records.

Required Competencies:

The post-holder must be able to demonstrate:

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Basic knowledge of Conveyancing and Laws relating to land registration.
• Competence in the use of word processing, spreadsheet and other relevant software.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in law, Land Surveying/GIS, Geography, Urban Planning; or
• Associate Degree or Paralegal Diploma

Special Conditions Associated with the Job

• Extensive fieldwork in rural parishes (Manchester and Saint Elizabeth)
• Extensive walking and travelling throughout communities within rural parishes.

Accommodation (Mondays to Fridays) and transportation will be provided.

A letter of Application accompanied by a Resume should be submitted no later than Friday, September 29, 2023 to: jobapplications@nla.gov.jm for the attention of:

The Director Human Resource Management and Development National Land Agency

2nd floor, Hope Business Complex

35 Hope Road, Kingston 10, Saint Andrew

We appreciate all responses but only short-listed Applicants will be contacted.

 

JPS SUMMER INTERNSHIP 2023/2024!

 We're hiring!

Role: Engineering Internship Programme 2023/2024

Summary:

The mandate of the Engineering Internship Programme is to provide our interns with practical learning and professional development opportunities, while having a first hand experience of the Engineering functions of the Jamaica Public Service Company. This is a one-year full-time internship programme from September 2023 to August 2024. 

Interns will be paid during the period of engagement.

• Must be an Electrical Engineering Major
• Must be in the final year of the programme - graduate 2023
• Outstanding academic performance - minimum 3.0
• GPA should clearly be stated on the resume
• Title of Final Year Project must be stated on the resume, with a brief summary
• Interns will be rotated across the Engineering departments in the business
• Success completion of the programme may result in placement in the organization if suitable vacancies exist
• Applicants should have attended any of the major universities in Jamaica
• Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

Apply Today: careers@jpsco.com  

Deadline to apply: June 30, 2023 

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"Will work for free!" Why an internship is a good idea.

If you are a recent graduate of high school or a college, or maybe a final year student at university about to graduate and enter the working world, you have one thing in common: your wish to find employment quickly. For many however, there is a hindrance to quickly securing employment as planned, and that is lack of work experience.

We all know the story, the enthusiastic, newly graduated job seeker goes out there to find employment but gets his/her enthusiasm crushed because every where they apply they are told they lack experience.

If you're reading this article and you find yourself in that particular situation, read on, this blog might change your outlook and your life!

So you're looking for work and applying to almost every job advert you see, but it's the same thing "candidate must have 1 to 3 years (or even more years) experience..." What can you do? How can you put the odds in your favor? Become an Intern, volunteer and/or join various clubs and societies and network! Today we'll be focusing on Internships.


Internships

Employers want to see that new graduates have some form of experience and they most certainly accept participation in a well-structured internship as relevant experience for entry level positions. An internship is one way of overcoming the lack of experience dilemma. The benefits include:

• Gaining general work related and discipline specific knowledge
• Developing skills and competencies
• Building your confidence in relation to job performance
• Acquiring a frame of reference for evidence of your abilities
• Increasing the possibility of landing a job.

College students, if your academic programme requires or offers the option of taking an internship for academic credit please make full use of the opportunity! Alternatively, you may choose to take a not for credit internship and even go as far as getting involved with a programme that does not offer a stipend. Remember, the ultimate aim is to gain vital experience that will make you more marketable.
Here are a few strategies you should use to help you land a life-changing internship position:

1. Make a list of the organizations, large and small, at which you would like to intern.

2. Identify the specific knowledge and skills that you have to offer the organizations.

3. Determine the benefits you would like to derive from the internship experience.

4. Do your research. Find out which of these organizations do offer internship programmes. Don’t limit yourself to those companies with existing programmes. If you make a good case, your offer of service or request for accommodation could be considered by even those companies without established internship programmes.

5. Prepare a professionally appealing cover letter and résumé making sure to tailor them to match the needs and culture of each of your target organizations.

6. Begin making plans for your accommodation away from home or your current school location.

7. Engage your networking links to get doors of opportunity opened, your professors, mentors, as well as family and friends are good persons to begin with.

The search for the right internship can be just as tedious as finding an actual job, but don’t give up. You'll reap the rewards later. Use similar strategies as you would for a job search and be sure to begin your search early.

TIP: The best time to seek out an internship is during the summer months.

Happy hunting!

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Ten 'Success-filled' habits Job Seekers MUST have for 2020 and beyond!

by S. Jeffery

Ah! A new year! New beginning! 2020 is here and picking up speed! Time is moving fast friends: many of us made vows to ourselves that this year would a better year for prosperity, and for some of us we hope that our circumstances will change and we'll finally be able to receive the job we've prayed for.
The reality is that we live in an extremely competitive job market and while we wish there were more jobs, the truth is that employment prospects are few compared to the number of qualified persons hunting for them. So now I'm sure you're asking me...what do you do? There must be something that can be done to give you the edge you need to stand out at an interview (or even get an interview in the first place). This blog post will seek to help you chart a more successful course for the new year! So read on...
The job market is highly competitive, which can be quite intimidating for job seekers especially when they didn’t graduate at the top of their class. However, according to former CEO of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica, Dennis Chung, “the most competent or brightest do not necessarily make the most productive employees”.
In fact, he claims that employers may often prefer someone who has a positive attitude: someone willing to learn, as opposed to someone who is a ‘know it all’.
Believe me, an attitude open to learning new skills and develop abilities will always make job seekers viable in the job market. With that said here are 10 habits job seekers should have to be successful in landing an interview or earn a place in the company of their choice.

Young graduates may think that after finishing university getting a job would be automatic, the sad truth is... it nuh guh suh!

1. Match your qualifications to the job you seek
First of all, you have to recognise that your qualifications must match the job that you are seeking. You may realise that the market requires more than what you have and that you may need to put in additional work to be on par with what the job market demands.

2. Attend workshops

Improving on yourself is a valuable tool. Workshops will broaden your scope and knowledge on a plethora of subjects and employers value having rounded people on their teams.

3. Volunteer/Network

If you are unemployed, the first thing that you want to consider is volunteering. It is the best way to get into the job market. It is also a very good way to meet people so that you can exchange numbers and build relationships. So, whenever you can offer a helping hand, do it, and you might find that another helping hand will be offered to you.

4. Make your resume specific

What you put on your résumé is what actually sells you. Remember, the person interviewing you has never met you before so you have to ensure that you have done a good job at compiling your résumé. Make sure that you are not giving them more than two pages. A resume with more pages often gets overlooked because job seekers include skills that are not relevant to the job they are seeking. Additionally, be clear about the job that you desire. Please don’t say that you wish to be hired into any available position. That shows desperation. Allow the employer to make that decision based on the company’s needs.

5. Don’t change jobs frequently
It doesn’t have to be several years of service but your loyalty to an institution is important. If you seem ‘nomadic’ in your job pattern this can be a turn-off since companies are looking to train and invest in people for the long term.
6. Learn to sell yourself

...Especially when you have not worked anywhere else or you cannot say what you have done at work. Many employees are willing to listen about personal achievements because these could say a lot about your character and potentially the kind of employee that you could be. So, for example, if you play sports and you have been doing well, if you are involved and have been doing well in community work or a club, many employees will be willing to listen and consider you based on how you have presented yourself. Playing team sports suggests that you would have been exposed to working in a team, to respecting those whom you work with, and to conflict resolution, which are all important in business.

7. Don’t think of any job as too low for you
If a job is offered below your pay grade or what you may believe to be menial you may want to consider accepting it. These ‘menial jobs’ could present a gateway to a very big opportunity but employers are keen on testing whom they take onto their teams. Often, employers offer the job and note that there will be a possibility for promotion, so hang on to the opportunity.

8. Do your homework (research the company and their expectations)

It is easy to settle when you are overwhelmed by joblessness, but being happy with your job is very important to the contribution and the value that you add to your workplace. So, it is important to do your research and apply according to your findings. Do a complete a research on the organisation with which you desire to work, as well as who heads it, their values, interests, and whether they have ever commented on what they expect of employees. Knowing these could work in your favour at the interview.
9. Do not focus on academics alone
Employers also search for persons with soft skills. So even before you become job-seekers think about extracurricular activities. Employers find that these employees usually have a wealth of knowledge from their involvement in different groups to share.
10. Keep Up Appearances

Always keep a clean presentable suit, even if it is just one. You also always want to be well groomed.

Hope this was helpful to you guys. Remember to follow this blog for useful career tips like these.

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Seprod Approves Annual Internship Programme.

The Seprod Board, led by Chairman PB Scott, has approved an annual internship programme which will see manufacturing entities within the Seprod Group hiring young Jamaican graduates from local and overseas educational institutions for one year.

The graduates will gain practical work experience in their areas of studies giving them a launching pad to jump-start their career aspirations, according to a recent news release.

The Group welcomed its first batch of interns on June 26. The group of 25 includes graduates from the College of Agriculture, Science & Education, University of the West Indies, University of Technology and the Caribbean Maritime Institute. The range of disciplines includes electrical and mechanical engineering, food safety, food service management, culinary arts, agriculture and agro-processing, logistics and information technology.

The interns will be assigned projects and be exposed to programmes to develop their leadership skills.

Richard Pandohie, Seprod's CEO revealed that, “Students from both local and international institutions have been serving short-term internships at Seprod for many years, but the decision to extend the programme to one-year placements, in which each participant will have the opportunity to complete rotations throughout various companies in the Group, is a direct response to the increasing difficulties that young graduates are facing in finding jobs, a situation that sees many of them resorting to migration to find opportunities.”


In welcoming the interns, he expressed the company's delight in supporting their career growth and aspirations and in providing them with an opportunity to gain valuable work experience and hone their leadership skills.

He urged the participants to seek to make a difference wherever they are placed; to not accept the status quo but to be positively disruptive and to be part of the force driving Seprod and Jamaica to a greater level of performance.



References: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business-observer/seprod-welcomes-25-graduates-for-internship-programme_103214

10,000 Jamaican Youth to Receive Training and Employment starting this year!

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Approximately 10,000 unattached young people, aged 17 to 29, are expected to benefit from the J$1.6 billion (US$9.3 million) New Employment Opportunities for Youth in Jamaica (NEO-Jamaica) project.

Its implementation aims to broaden training and employment opportunities for marginalised and vulnerable youth. The project is being spearheaded under the Youth Upliftment Through Employment (YUTE) initiative of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), with inputs from several other partners.

These include the ministries of Labour and Social Security, and Science, Energy and Technology.

NEO-Jamaica is being jointly financed by the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), and local stakeholder partners.

The project is slated to run from 2016 to 2018, during which the participants will receive vocational training, and job placement opportunities expected to be provided by approximately 100 partner companies that will also offer internships. It will provide participants with the skills to fill in-demand occupations; build the capacity of key national youth training and service provider organisations; strengthen job placement entities; and align training programmes in educational institutions with labour market requirements.

NEO-Jamaica was launched by Governor-General, Sir Patrick Allen, who is the programme’s patron, during a ceremony at King’s House on June 3.

In welcoming the project, the Governor-General lauded the public-private sector collaboration facilitating it.

“This (is a) pioneering effort in which businesses, Government and civil society join forces to provide resources, knowledge, and capacities in order to implement efficient and sustainable youth employment solutions,” he said.

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator Ruel Reid, also endorsed the initiative, noting that the public-private sector partnership is essential in addressing youth unemployment. In this regard, he gave an undertaking to “work with the private sector to refashion the Jamaican education system, because we have to recalibrate it to deal with the realities of the 21st century.”

Meanwhile, YUTE Chairman, Joseph Matalon, highlighted a Statistical Institute of Jamaica’s (STATIN) report which noted that youth unemployment stood at 30.3 per cent in October 2015.

“While the negative trajectory has been slowing over the past few years, youth unemployment is still more than double the national unemployment rate. Finding solutions requires that youth be empowered and enabled to make use of their talents and spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship, to bring about the changes we need,” he said.

NEO-Jamaica is part of a regional youth empowerment initiative incorporating countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The NEO initiative, which was launched at the Sixth Summit of the Americas in Colombia 2012, aims to assist one million vulnerable youths across these regions by 2022.

Jamaica is the first English-speaking country and the 11th nation to join the programme.

Other local partners are: HEART Trust/NTA and the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ).

Source: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Project-to-help-10-000-young-people-with-training--employment