Summer year placement, bentleycareers.com

[polarbert]

i have applied for an IT role at www.bentleycareers.com which i spent ages filling out, but i havent heard anything, not even confirmation, should i have heard something? or do they just let me know if i got it or not.

i really want to go there, as most of the other placements offered look boring.


does anybody in pistonheads have any placements to offer me as i am still looking for other options if this falls through.


look forward to seeing if anything comes up!


thanks

[dick dastardly]

Can't help sorry but just wanted to say fingers crossed for you mate. A kid from my Uni got to go there as part of his marketing degree and understandably never wanted to come back!

[polarbert]

dick dastardly said:

Can't help sorry but just wanted to say fingers crossed for you mate. A kid from my Uni got to go there as part of his marketing degree and understandably never wanted to come back!

thanks for that, as i said i really hope i get it, i applied to peugeot citroen as it was quite near, but got turned down, think it might have had something to do with the fact i didnt have an e or above in french at a level

[polarbert]

so anybody know if i should have heard anything? or will they just let me know in a bit

[polarbert]

can anybody help me out? ^^^

[DJ111S]

Just got to sit and wait I guess. Sometimes no news is good news. I suppose you could ring up and make sure they received your application ok - wouldn't do any harm. Generally it takes a while to sift through all the applications.

[Boosted Ls1]

How long have you waited for a reply?

I don't imagine they are in any hurry so would guess you will have to be patient. Won't do any harm to request confirmation of receipt though. I've been there and had a very interesting time so am sure you wopuld get job satisfaction.

Boosted.

[fid]

I'll do one now and see if I get a confirmation through straight away...

I'd expect them to get back to you sooner or later, though, rather than saying nothing atall.

[fid]

Nope, no email through from them yet. Took bloody ages to fill out!

[polarbert]

fid said:

Nope, no email through from them yet. Took bloody ages to fill out!

tell me about it!

i still havent heard anything, will look for an email tomorrow

[GavinPearson]

polarbert said:

fid said: Nope, no email through from them yet. Took bloody ages to fill out! tell me about it! i still havent heard anything, will look for an email tomorrow

First rule of any large company, do not expect anything in a hurry.

They are fielding applications for the summer, expect to hear from them in February, interview April, job offer in May.

I'm not joking either.

[polarbert]

yeah i can understand that, its just that i applied to peugeot citroen on the same day and that got back to me the very next day.


oh and i decided to see what that 1 email in my junkmail was, and hotmail in their infinite wisdom decided that an email from Bentley careers was junk.

They said that I have passed the first stage and that I will hear if I get to the second in February as you said.

[GavinPearson]

Well good luck with the placement. Remember, it gives you a good opportunity to see how a large company works and give you a taste for how the world of work will treat you.

If I can offer you some advice - if you want to make some serious money, do an IT contract in China for the automotive companies there under a contract house like MSX.

There are Engineers making USD 200K pa on launches, even a starting salary would make a very good start towards a mortgage and something interesting to drive.