Tampa Bay WaVE launches tech job board, seeks student interns

Tampa Bay WaVE has launched a new job board for tech-related positions with growing companies in the Tampa Bay community.
 
The board includes listing for jobs in the Tampa and St. Petersburg areas, primarily in the technology field. Typical listings include marketing or development work. 

A centralized job board for local tech positions “allows companies to pull from talent that’s in or around Tampa Bay WaVe already,” says WaVE marketing manager Gracie Stemmer.

Current listings include two positions with Tampa startup KiteDesk, a company that participated in WaVE’s Accelerator program for tech entrepreneurs. Along with the Accelerator program -- designed to help startup businesses succeed -- the Tampa Bay WaVE space in downtown Tampa’s Sykes building is also home to the First WaVE Venture Center, a coworking space for local entrepreneurs, and newly home to Gr8code, a code camp for kids and adults.

CBT Development and advertising agency 22squared are also among the small group of companies who have posted tech job listings on the Tampa Bay WaVe job board.

In addition to tech-related jobs with local Tampa companies, the Tampa Bay WaVE job board will also list in-house internship opportunities.
 
WaVE “has quite a robust internship program,” Stemmer says. “We’re always looking for interns in the fields of graphic design, writing and journalism, and business and marketing.”

Tampa Bay WaVE’s internship program is open to undergraduate and graduate students. Internships technically run for one semester, but Stemmer estimates that “90 percent of the time, our students will stay for more than two semesters.”

“Most of our students are there for more than a year,” she explains. “They get in, they love it and they don’t want to leave!”

Tampa Bay WaVE internships begin with a preliminary unpaid period, after which interns can qualify to be paid.
 
The job board is an additional amenity for current Tampa Bay WaVe members, while non-members may place job listings for a fee, or take advantage of sponsorship opportunities. To explore current listings or learn more about adding your own, visit the Tampa Bay WaVE job board or contact Gracie Stemmer.
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Justine Benstead is a feature writer for 83 Degrees Media in the Tampa Bay region of Florida.