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Location: Ireland: Dublin

Opportunity: 5-month returnship

Start Date: February 2022

Application Deadline: 28 November 2021

Celebrate your bold comeback

Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. They help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe. They operate in over 25 countries and have over 15,000 employees.

Expleo is excited to work with Women Returners to launch their Return@Expleo 2022 returner programme. Expleo supports and believes in meaningful change and the new opportunities that this presents. With this in mind, they are delighted to be partnering with Women Returners on their pilot returner programme to support those returning to work after an extended career break of 12+ months.

At Expleo you will work as part of their team on one of their Dublin client sites. Expleo will operate a blended remote working model ideally supporting a combination of remote and onsite work. You will get to work alongside like-minded people, and understand how their Clients work and operate. The placement will be tailored to your skillsets and any relevant previous industry experience. It will be a 5 month paid placement with the opportunity of a permanent role at the end of the programme.

Expleo is focused on providing the best solutions for their Clients to support their digital transformation. In order to provide the most innovative and effective solutions, you will work as part of diverse and varied teams, leveraging your client management skills to deliver results for the Client.

What you can expect

  • The Returner Programme offers a paid placement of five months, starting in February 2022, with the possibility of a permanent role at the end of the assignment
  • You will receive regular coaching support from Women Returners to help you to transition successfully back into the workplace
  • A great opportunity to refresh your knowledge and skills, whilst gaining new experiences when working on different client projects
  • Building a new network both internally and externally, whilst boosting your confidence in the workplace
  • Peer to peer support – the programme is run as a small cohort intake, so a number of returners will start the programme together. This will provide support to all those partaking in the programme
  • Mentoring – you will be assigned a mentor when you start, to support your transition and help with any questions you might have throughout the programme

What Expleo is looking for

All applicants must have the right to work in the ROI and have been on a career break for 12+ months or more. Your career break may have been for childcare, eldercare or other reasons. You may have been working in a part time, small-scale role or participating in unpaid or charitable work. You will have experience in one or more of the following areas:

  • Business Analysis
  • Project/Programme Management
  • Test Lead/ Management
  • Development
  • Automation Testing
  • Performance Testing
  • Agile/Scrum
  • Management Consultancy across Financial Services, Life Sciences or the Utilities sector.

About Expleo

As technology disrupts all established norms – bringing complexity and uncertainty, alongside new opportunities to improve the world – Expleo’s mission is to help businesses harness technological change to successfully deliver innovation. They help their clients gain a competitive advantage and improve the lives of people around the globe.

Their group of companies offers access to end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. They have sector-specific expertise and best practice across consultancy and business agility, product design, production and in-service support, as well as continuous quality.

Their 15,000 people bring the right balance of boldness and reliability that businesses need to succeed. They are guided by shared values in all things they do: courage, excellence, collaboration, respect and accountability:

Courage – They are bold thinkers and doers, always ready to take on new challenges. They think of themselves as entrepreneurs, matching creativity with vigilance.

Excellence – They are united by a shared ambition: change the game, together. Continuous performance is both an objective and a mindset.

Collaboration –Teamwork and emotional intelligence are what makes them stand out in a crowd. They stand shoulder to shoulder, with their clients and their peers, through good times and setbacks.

Respect – They are a hive of different profiles, and they place a high value on openness and transparency. They show respect, always.

Accountability – They are reliable. They celebrate their successes, they take responsibility and learn from their failures. This is why they protect their “right to fail” as an opportunity to bounce back and progress

Think bold, act reliable.

To find out more, visit their website Expleogroup.com.

How to apply for the programme 

For more information and to apply please click here 

The deadline for applications is Sunday 28 November 2021.  Interviews will be held early December and offers made soon after.

With any questions, please email Expleo on Returners@expleogroup.com