ICS Graduate Development Programme

Course details

Are you a computing graduate and finished full time education?

Making the transition from college into your computing career can be a challenging and exciting time.

• How will you keep up to date with industry developments?
• Deliver high impact presentations to senior managers?
• Manage large IT projects?

Introducing the ICS Graduate Development Programme. Delivered by industry experts and senior IT professionals, this is the ideal add-on qualification for computing graduates early in your career.

You will gain skills demanded by industry, expand your professional network and gain a respected add-on qualification.

Course Content

Module 1:

Professional computing

Participants will act within legal & ethical boundaries. Participants will learn core skills related to themselves and their work.

• ICT Professionalism
• Ethics
• IT law, Security, Privacy
• Software testing and QA
• Data Protection

Module 2:

Personal Development

Participants will learn personal development skills to improve themselves, their communication and relationships with colleagues, managers and clients.

• Time management
• Presentation skills
• Career management
• Stress management

Module 3:

Management skills

Participants will learn managerial skills to work better with their team and manage their projects and situations effectively.

• Commercial & Financial Management
• Project Management
• Problem solving and Decision-making techniques
• Negotiation skills

Module 4:

Strategic IT

Participants will understand the strategic role that they and IT play in organisations.

• IT Strategy
• Becoming a digital leader
• Business Analysis
• IT Architecture
• Process Engineering