Toby from IBM in Hursley is a programmer. He came into Itchen and started talking about how his career started up.
He had left Itchen in 1990, after studying computing/programming, then went on to University and got an apprenticeship with Barclay's who he worked with for a year in Africa.
When his University course finished he went back to work for Barclay's and he got in because of his previous work placement there.
One of his tasks in Africa (Botswana) was to put up satellites on the thousands of Barclay's buildings, which took him 3 weeks and he gained different skills which he never got taught in Uni/College.
After 3 years of working for Barclay's he transferred to an IBM programmer.
He has been there for 9 years now and he has travelled around, helping to fix problems in different countries.
He has worked in Customer Services and other departments.
My thoughts on IBM have changed as i wanted to go to IBM because i went there on an open day before with my aunt and uncle.
When i went there, there was someone designing a website, someone else working as an accountant, etc. When Toby came in for the presentation i found out that there were even more areas to work in for IBM. He spoke about how there is a lot of teamwork used and how the hours can be flexible to the individual person.
The downside of his presentation was he told us that they only usually accept university graduates, which is a shame because i am not interested in going to university and want to get a job after college.
