HK Graduate Trainee
Recruitment

With more than 60,000 consultants and professional staff in over 160 countries globally, IBM Global Business Services (GBS) is the world’s largest consulting services organization. GBS provides clients with business process and industry expertise, a deep understanding of business and technology solutions that address specific industry issues, and the capability to analyze, design and implement the solutions in a way that delivers bottom-line business value with deeper insights.

As a GBS consultant, you will be involved in a variety of consulting activities, to meet and understand the business situations through interviews and workshops with senior management of large corporations in different industry sectors, including financial services, public services, retail and distributions, telecommunications, etc. In addition, you will also gain invaluable experiences in areas such as sales, consulting methodologies, strategic planning, business case development, system implementation, client relationship management and project management.

For your personal growth, you will be offered a series of professional training programs and mentoring, allowing you to quickly develop your business and solution domain expertise, your consulting skills, as well as your presentation, communication, and leadership skills. This training will continue throughout your career with GBS, ensuring your skill set remains at the forefront of consulting industry trends and to equip you to be our next generation leaders in IBM as well as the consulting industry.

Key attributes we are looking for:

• Undergraduate or Postgraduate in any discipline, graduated in Year 2013 or graduating in Year 2014;
• Have not worked in a full-time capacity for more than two years after graduation (Undergraduate or Postgraduate);
• With passion in a IT consulting career ;
• Strong analytical skills and innovative approach to problems ;
• Aggressive, self-motivated, fast-learning team player ;
• Willing to travel and enjoy work with multi-cultural people ;
• Excellent communication and presentation skills ;
• Possess an excellent command of written & spoken English, Cantonese and Mandarin will be an advantage.

For those who love challenges, who excel in communicating and collaborating with others, and who want to pursue a successful career in sales, IBM sales specialist trainee is for you.

To be a valued business resource to the clients, you will need to acquire an in-depth understanding of their business and determine areas where IBM’s business segments can complement theirs. Our clients span across all industries – finance, transportation, travel, government, manufacturing, distribution, education, telecommunication and so on. You will recommend solutions to clients’ business problems and enhance their competitiveness based on your knowledge of their business strategies and the industry marketplace.

You are required to acquire new information on selling techniques or specialty offering capabilities quickly, to enhance sales and professional effectiveness. You will be responsible for selling IBM offerings (hardware, software, services and industry solutions) directly to clients, closing the sale and positively impacting the client’s satisfaction with the engagement and the offerings.

For graduates with Information Technology / Computer / Engineering background, you can also consider to start your career as a Sales Specialist Trainee. You will be mentored by senior professionals and be involved in project activities such as architecture design, application development planning, and support on engagement activities for customer system implementations. In addition, you will also gain invaluable experience in areas such as sales engagement, consulting methodology, strategic planning, business case development, client relationship management and project team management.

Key attributes we are looking for:

• Undergraduate or Postgraduate in any discipline, graduated in Year 2013 or graduating in Year 2014;
• Have not worked in a full-time capacity for more than two years after graduation (Undergraduate or Postgraduate);
• Passionate in the Hong Kong Information Technology industry and with a strong interest in selling or promoting IT products / services ;
• Strong analytical skills and innovative approach to problems ;
• Goal oriented, self-motivated and able to work under pressure ;
• Excellent communication and presentation skills ;
• Possess an excellent command of written & spoken English, Cantonese and Mandarin will be an advantage.

If you are innovative, and want to make a difference to the world with technology, join IBM as an IT specialist trainee to turn leading-edge technologies to practical solutions.

You will perform a technical role, supporting project implementation and system integration activities. You will be engaged in various technical tasks including IT architecture design, solution analysis, system testing, programming and project management. You will be equipped with specialized skills on technology products or industry solutions which enable you to engage in application development and technical support projects involving IBM products and information systems to our clients

Key attributes we are looking for:

• Undergraduate or Postgraduate in any discipline, graduated in Year 2013 or graduating in Year 2014;
• Have not worked in a full-time capacity for more than two years after graduation (Undergraduate or Postgraduate);
• Good understanding in Hong Kong Information Technology industry;
• Enjoy design of IT solutions, system integration, programming and project management;
• Strong analytical skills and innovative approach to problems ;
• Goal oriented and able to work under pressure;
• Aggressive, self-motivated, fast-learning and able to work independently;
• Strong communication and presentation skills ;
• Possess an excellent command of written & spoken English, Cantonese and Mandarin will be an advantage

Important Notes to Applicants:

1. Applications must be made using our online application form. Applications submitted via other means will NOT be considered. Shortlisted applicants will be notified regarding the next stage in the recruitment process via email.
2. Applicant is only allowed to apply one trainee program, and application could only be submitted once only. Those who submit more than one application or more than once in the same trainee program will NOT be considered.
3. Applicants are required to complete the on-line application and upload all the required documents in one PDF file to our website on or before the application deadline – December 1, 2013 (Sun). Applicants who could not upload all the documents in one PDF file will NOT be considered.

Required documents (Please combine into one PDF file):
Covering Letter (please specify which trainee position to apply);
Resume with full details, including valid e-mail address and mobile number;
Academic transcripts copies (eg. Bachelor and/or Master degree transcripts with latest GPA score);
HKAL certificate and HKCEE certificate copies (for local students in HK only);
Reference letter & other supporting documents (if applicable).

4. Application Links: (to be opened on Oct 1, 2013):

• Consulting Trainee (Consulting by degree) (2014 in-take)
• Sales Specialist Trainee (BlueSeed Program) (2014 in-take)
• IT Specialist Trainee (2014 in-take)