Careers Fair 2001
In 2001, I attended an employers' fair at Oxford,
looking for project ideas. These were the employers:-
Computer Employers
- Capital One
- comment: Never applied.
- needs: VB, Java, Oracle, Unix, Enterprise Java Beans
- location: Nottingham
- tel: 0800 952 5353
- website: click here
- Alamy
- comment: Image broking. Never applied.
- needs: SQL Server, Windows 2000 server, IIS 5.0, COM+, VB, Visual C++, XML
- location: Oxfordshire
- tel: 01235 844 602
- email: jobs@alamy.com
- website: click here
- Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE)
- comment: Wooo.... Never applied.
- needs: not really IT
- location: Aldermaston
- tel: 0118 982 6165
- email: janet.rampton@awe.co.uk
- website: click here
- Data Connection
- comment: Never applied.
- needs: C, C++, Java
- location: Enfield
- tel: 0208 366 1177
- email: recruit@dataconnection.com
- website: click here
- DecisionSoft
- comment: Prospective project. My now-famous fuckup. Forgot to shave for the interview. Ooops.
- needs: Java, Perl, C++, Linux, XML
- location: Oxford
- tel: 01865 203192
- website: click here
- Actix
- comment: Never applied.
- needs: ?
- location: London
- tel: 0208 735 6300
- website: click here
- Sapient
- comment: Never applied.
- needs: ?
- location: London
- tel: 0207 786 4500
- website: click here
- Netdecisions
- comment: Never applied.
- needs: Everything! (Unix, Aix, Linux, NT, XML, JSP, Javabeans, WML, Perl, COM, C++, VB...)
- location: London
- tel: 020 8563 5600
- email: graduate@netdecisions.com
- website: click here
- Met Office
- comment: Never applied.
However, I did get a letter from Human Resources (John Paris, Senior HR Advisor, 01344 856911,
john.paris@metoffice.com, Met Office, London road, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 2SZ)
asking me to apply for a contract
(48 weeks, quoting Casual 1, dated 12th July 2001), which was nice, if unprompted...
- needs: General
- location: ?
- tel: 01344 854 373
- email: sroskilly@meto.gov.uk
- website: click here
- QAS
- comment: Never applied.
- needs: C, general
- location: London
- tel: 0207 498 7777
- email: grad.recruitment@qas.com
- website: click here
- Softwire
- comment: Did apply, didn't get it. Nice people.
- needs: General. Place a premium on learning new skills.
- location: London
- tel: 0207 692 2266
- email: recruit@softwire.co.uk
- website: click here
- Analyticon
- comment: Modelling company. Never applied.
- needs: Matlab
- location: Stevenage
- tel: 01438 749 886
- website: click here
- Ripcord
- comment: Nice guys, look like clever people.
Liked them and applied for job.
May be bullshit merchants, but if they are, they're smart ones.
Got interview, but accepted Mercer job instead
- needs: Java, XML, wireless
- location: London
- tel: 0207 881 4250
- email: jobs@ripcordsystems.com
- website: click here or here
