IMLP UK - Going back to school

Leah illustrates in an artistic way her concepts to the students, putting her imagination at work!When I returned to my university to give a presentation on being an IMLP graduate, I thought I wouldn’t feel any different than when I was there as a student.  Even though I only graduated earlier this year, I realised how much I had changed since being here at GE Corporate. 

After the presentation I took time to take questions from both the students and the tutors, I was asked “What’s the best thing about being an IMLP?”  Immediately I knew answer…

My first five weeks at GE I spent in Junior Bootcamp (Detroit, US). It was an intensive learning development program that exposed me to new programming languages, financial skills and presentation guidance (to name but a few).  Junior Bootcamp gave me the opportunity to kick start my learning curve with a bang!  The training hasn’t ended there; I have recently attended ITIL training.  The latest buzz in the IT industry is ITIL, it’s a set of best practices that helps service providers realise the value to their customers.  Furthermore, through regular mentoring from the GE Corporate leaders, I am learning communication and leadership skills.

The IMLP Training Roadmap is a set course over the next two years. I started my journey with Junior Bootcamp; then travelled further on to complete a virtual Business Writing course and an Application Lifecycle course.  Next year I will attend Foundations of Leadership (Munich, Germany) and Senior Bootcamp (Shanghai, China). The Roadmap ahead of me is going to be hard work but I know that at the end of the two years I will have grown even further.

So what is the answer to “What’s the best thing about being an IMLP?”….

For me the best thing about being an IMLP is how much time and effort GE puts into developing me as a professional worker and a person.

Summer Intern Strategy

Many of us have been summer interns at some point in our college careers. Internship experiences can range from filling coffee cups to filling spreadsheets, and some are more beneficial than others. What defines a good internship? What should the student get out of it, and what should the company get out of it?

These are the questions we asked ourselves over the past few months as we prepared for a batch of new interns to arrive this summer. As the GE Transportation IMLP Recruiting Committee chair, I headed up the strategizing around what our intern activities will be for summer 2011. Rather than simply having a few pizza parties, we’ve decided to try to give them a taste of what it means to be an IMLP. Our goal is to help each intern make the best decision about whether or not IMLP is right for them.

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Hacker HS 2011 - An Introduction to SQL Injection

Last Thursday, June 2nd, IMLPs Murali Rathinasamy, Jeff Rechten, Kaitlin Lambracht and IMLP Intern Andrew Karnani hosted this year's Hacker High School event at the Greater Hartford Academy of Math and Science (GHAMAS) in Hartford, CT. The group delivered a presentation on SQL injection which covered information security in general, ethical hacking, SQL, the SQL injection vulnerability itself, and approaches to protecting applications from this vulnerability. In the afternoon, the group set up a virtual machine and gave the students the opportunity to hack it (ethically of course).   

The group also took this opportunity to showcase GE as a company and the IMLP program as well as other leadership programs available at GE.

Hacker High School is an IMLP-hosted event that is held each year after the GE Computer Science Contest (held in April at Fairfield Headquarters). Next year, the goal is to host this event at more schools in addition to GHAMAS, a regular participant year over year.  

Thanks to all who participated and helped to make this event a success!

IMLP Internships in GE Aviation UK!

In order to keep on growing the IMLP in the UK, GE Aviation is recruiting IMLP Interns (also known as Co-Op or EID) for this summer in Cheltenham.

They will be the first ones to join GE Aviation in the UK as IMLP Interns and will be working closely with IMLPs based in Cheltenham. Exposure to leadership and an amazing learning experience is guaranteed.

Exciting rotations of one-year length will be available so they will understand how GE operates, the infrastructure and services we provide while are mentored to develop new skills.

This initiative is part of the effort the recruiting team is putting to bring top talent to the UK IMLP.

Please, find more details and how to apply here.

We are looking forward to working with you!

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! Umm, what's my line?

There are definitely some perks in working for a company with such a vast business portfolio as GE: we have resources in areas that some companies could only dream of!  In April, IMLP's from across the UK teamed up with our colleagues at CNBC in London to shoot the first evThe 'cast' of the UK IMLP video in the studio. L to R: Eulogio, Rich, Gemma, Miguel, Lydie, Seb, Renuader IMLP promotional video, starring yours truly and a whole host of IMLPs, alumni, and interns.

Lead by UK IMLP Eulogio, the entire commercial was designed and scripted by the cast and shot in one afternoon at the CNBC News Studio.  We filmed over 3 hours of footage (there were plenty of outtakes!) and with the help of the editing geniuses at NBC we chopped this down to a two and a half minute segment. The video will be used in our online recruitment advertising for IMLP.

The IMLP program is rapidly expanding in the UK, and one of our largest challenges is getting our message out to the graduating students in a market where both IMLP and the GE brand are not well known.  This video, along with the huge publicity boost provided by GE’s sponsorship of the 2012 London Olympics, will go a long way towards bridging that gap.

Visiting the NBC Studios was a fantastic experience for everyone.  We learned a lot about how filming works in a studio environment and the pressures involved in making live television, as we were fortunate enough to sit in the control room during a live news broadcast with a breaking story!

Thanks to all the IMLP's involved, and an extra special thanks to Lloyd, Martin, Charlotte and Tim from CNBC for giving up their time and being such superb hosts.

Check out the video and find out more about IMLP in the UK by following this link: