Career | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:13:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Career | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Ubisoft to offer graduates paying positions with developers https://www.kitguru.net/professional/development/jon-martindale/ubisoft-to-offer-graduates-paying-positions-with-developers/ https://www.kitguru.net/professional/development/jon-martindale/ubisoft-to-offer-graduates-paying-positions-with-developers/#respond Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:12:10 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=176067 Ubisoft has announced that it's going to launch a graduate program which will see as many as 25 different university graduates given full paying positions at Ubisoft developers, to not only give them a leg up in the industry, but also to help the publisher secure the best and brightest video game developers of the …

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Ubisoft has announced that it's going to launch a graduate program which will see as many as 25 different university graduates given full paying positions at Ubisoft developers, to not only give them a leg up in the industry, but also to help the publisher secure the best and brightest video game developers of the next-generation.

If you're sat in one country or another and thinking you won't be applicable though, don't fret, as there's actually a large number this scheme is available in. If you're a resident of: the UK, USA, Romania, Sweden, France, Germany, Finland or Canada, you're in with a chance. There are however two specific jobs that Ubisoft is looking to fill: programming and producing.

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You'll be trained though right from the get go, while receiving full pay and from then on you'll get career support from the company's “buddy,” system that will see you monitored and taught throughout your two year tenure.
“The Ubisoft Graduate program is a two-year custom-made experience designed to accelerate access to a career in videogames. We give our graduates responsibilities within specific projects that we know will help them learn faster,” said project manager Clémence Bataille.

“Our goal is that graduates accumulate four years of experience in the space of two years. At the end of the program, they will be armed with considerable knowledge of the videogames sector and the company, and will be able to take on the challenges of new and exciting responsibilities within Ubisoft.”

If you want to apply to the scheme, you have until 15th March to do so. Put in your application here. If you passed the first stage, you'll hear from Ubisoft by 30th April at the latest, with the job beginning sometime between July and September if you make it through the follow up stages.

Kitguru Says: I know a few people that left uni a while ago who would have dived at this if they'd just graduated, but now they're all settled in other careers. What about you guys though? Any of you think you have what it takes to get a gig with Ubisoft?

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Looking for a job? Watch out for Zeus malware https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/security-software/jon-martindale/looking-for-a-job-watch-out-for-zeus-malware/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/security-software/jon-martindale/looking-for-a-job-watch-out-for-zeus-malware/#respond Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:11:18 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=138449 Money launderers and account thieves have been using money mules for years to help clean up their cash and make it difficult for authorities to trace and a common method for recruitment in the past was job sites. Now though, security teams at those firms are beginning to crack down on the practice, leading to …

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Money launderers and account thieves have been using money mules for years to help clean up their cash and make it difficult for authorities to trace and a common method for recruitment in the past was job sites. Now though, security teams at those firms are beginning to crack down on the practice, leading to the launderers now using malware to send you somewhere their protective measures can't help.

If there's one group of people that criminals love to exploit, it's the vulnerable, as by their very nature, they're easily suggestible, perhaps desperate – making them easy targets for scams. One group of people that can often be in a vulnerable position, are those looking for jobs. There's a fair percentage that are simply seeing what's out there, but a lot of people doing so may have lost their position and need work soon, or are looking to leave wherever they work at the time as quickly as possible. This makes them much more susceptible to phony job offers for “financial managers” or in reality, money mules.

But how to get you to see the advert without the job seeker site staff shutting it down? Redirect you to a site of their own of course.

This is where the Zeus trojan comes in. According to a report by Trusteer, a new configuration of the Zeus malware uses a Man-in-the-Broswer attack to redirect a job seeker to a phony job search site. Every time from then on a person attempts to visit their chosen job search site, it sends them over to the malware deployer's fake one.

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When you reach “Marketandtarget.com,” you're greeted by poorly written job adverts, promising good pay for simple stay at home jobs and in some instances mystery shoppers. As Trusteer points out,  “Because this redirection occurs when the victim is actively pursuing a job, in this case with CareerBuilder [dot] com, the victim is more likely to believe the redirection is to a legitimate job opportunity.”

KitGuru Says: Keep this in mind if you're actively looking for a job. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is and be aware of any job sites or adverts that seem like they're not written by a native English speaker – that can be a dead giveaway. 

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