Introducing - Ben Henderson

As I travel up the country to my respective client site this blue skied Monday morning I feel it is only polite to introduce myself in the form of a 'First Post'.

My Name is Ben Henderson and I have been with Capgemini on the BTC for nearly 9 months now. Before my life at Capgemini I graduated from Oxford Brooks University after a sandwich course in Computing. After graduating from Brookes and a few months travelling around Europe, I went back to the organisation I completed my year out with and set about my first full time job as a software tester.

Two years into my job I realised that software testing wasn't for me, or more specifically testing the same piece of software week in week out wasn't for me. I wanted variety!

I set about looking for a job that would offer the variety that I was after but also develop me as a person. At the end of the day there are so many IT jobs that I just didn't know enough about any of them to say "yes" I want to do that. That’s when I saw the BTC offered you the chance to try many different roles before making the decision to jump into a discipline, and this ticks every box!

I joined the BTC along with 8 other graduates in July 2007 and we were from all different backgrounds, some straight from university and others had been out of university for longer than they cared to remember. In that first week we learnt all sorts and were given the preparation needed to go onto a client site should we be required the following week.

So back to my Blog... I will be airing my thoughts on the move from student to suit, trying to get to the bottom of the debate into whether or not the things that you are learning at university are preparing you for a life in the real world of work. I may also voice some opinions that I have of technology of today and what I think will be the next big thing. I hope you enjoy my entries and feel free to comment and I endeavour to reply within a day or two.