VSU Career Day was held by Career Development and Business Partnership Department on 27 April. The event gathered over 680 students and 43 employers. The main purpose of the event was to introduce talented job seekers from VSU to leading companies of the region who are looking for new employees.
Ten career events were organised for students of different VSU faculties. The programme included workshops, lectures, vacancy fair, and consultations. The guests of Career Day participated in important events such as the opening of the hh.ru career library in the reading hall of the main building of VSU and the presentation of a mobile application for VSU graduates. The application which will be launched in May was developed by VSU students and employees of Fittin.
The vacancy fair also provided students with an opportunity to communicate with the representatives of leading companies. The list of partners included the following organisations: Sozvezdie Concern, Sberbank, Event360, Relex, NIIET, Sovcombank, Sovcombank Technologies, Tele2, Trust, Tekhnologii Doveriya, Etagi, Rosatom, Efko, EkoNiva, Nanolek, Rosbank, NIIpM, NIIET, VZPP-Sborka, VZPP-Mikron, KV Systemy, VKontakte, Alfa Bank, AEDON. Some large companies, including Red Collar, HeadHunter, Kept, Rosatom, Dom.rf, and the Centre for Corporative Solutions held educational meetings for students.
Various lectures and workshops were offered, and students could choose the most interesting ones. Mikhail Boldyrev and Ekaterina Samsonova from Red Collar talked about the skills and professional roles needed in IT companies. Ekaterina Romanenko, a representative of Dom.rf, presented the topic of a personal brand and shared the secrets of its development. The lecture by Kept was dedicated to the relationship between job positions in consulting and educational specialities. Senior researcher Andrey Ovsyannikov talked about job opportunities at the leading enterprise by Rosatom, Russian Federal Nuclear Centre – All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics.
“At Career Day it was interesting to see which companies are currently recruiting students. Such events usually provide a lot of new opportunities, contacts, and good mood. I came here hoping that I can find myself in the jobs offered and maybe get a job. It would be really cool to earn money and use my knowledge while I’m still at university,” said Diana Rosnovskaya, a student from the Faculty of Philosophy and Psychology.
Online recruitment company HeadHunter and digital agency Red Collar were the main partners of the Career Day. They held the greatest number of meetings with students in various forms. The partners are planning to continue their close cooperation with the university, for example, HeadHunter has already prepared a list of new consultations for VSU students. Software company Fittin, Dodo Pizza, and recruitment company TOT TON were among key co-organisers and sponsors of the event.
“Over the past two years the Career Centre has managed to develop its own brand, and not only within the university but outside. We promote our students at the regional market and at the same time we help our partners. Through meetings, career consultations, and targeted staff selection we cooperate with companies and find employees for relevant job offers,” said Ekaterina Mikhailuk, Head of the VSU Career Development and Business Partnership Centre.
As a result of Career Day, VSU partners noted that students were really interested in the offered events. At specific consultations the participants asked questions, learnt about internships, and left their contact information. Employers have never received so many applications from VSU students before.
Most VSU faculties also highly appreciate career events. They engage students in these activities: the greatest number of visit requests was received from the Faculty of Chemistry, the Faculty of Geography, the Faculty of Law, and the Faculty of Philosophy and Psychology. The students from the Faculty of Computer Sciences, the Faculty of Physics, and the Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics were the most active attendants of the workshops. Volunteers and interns from Voronezh State Technical University and Voronezh State University helped to organise the event. Ten VSU students from the Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics, the Faculty of Computer Sciences, the Faculty of International Relations, the Faculty of Philology, the Faculty of History, and the Faculty of Journalism were also engaged in the organisation of the Career Day.
VSU structural subdivisions also conduct meetings with employers. On the same day, 27 April, Career Day was held at the Faculty of Pharmaceutics. The representatives of the Faculty attended presentations by partner companies and a took part in a career quest. On 26 April, the meeting for students and employers was also organised at the Faculty of History.
All career events were traditionally presented on the Facultetus platform.
The Career Development and Business Partnership Department is using new tools for meetings between students and employers. Fifty-one employers were registered at the Facultetus as part of Career Day. Two of nineteen participants of the even were offered a job. New job offers also appeared in the digital environment of the university, and most of them are presented in the following areas: Working with People, Management, Sales, Healthcare, Finance, and IT.
