Career - Power Your Future
JobFair 2014 - Fair of Opportunities and Possibilities
LC Ljubljana - Slovenia
Text: Samo Pahor and Andrej Filipic, LC Ljubljana Photographs: Aleks Gabric and Uroš Zupan, LC Ljubljana
JobFair 2014 - the seventh Fair of Opportunities and Possibilities was an event organised
by EESTEC LC Ljubljana. This year's edition
was occurring between the 14th and 16th of
April.
Mainly targeting Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science students, the event gathers them, representatives of high technologies industries and the academic community
in one place with the intention of reducing the
breach between the knowledge a student has
after graduation and the knowledge and skills
that employers are expecting. The primary
purpose was to bring the students closer to
their future employers, emphasizing the importance of extracurricular activities and additional skills and capabilities besides knowledge obtained at the university, for increasing
one's employability.
inside the company. Besides that, the event
was packed with additional activities.
Some of the companies held lectures about
their current projects or about the company
as a whole. Two soft skills trainings were organised, one about Communication, the other
about Team work. A selected group of students was trained for the Elevator pitch. This
knowledge was useful for the Breakfast with
the directors, a speed dating-like event.
The conclusion of this three-day successful
event was a roundtable titled More than studies: from learning to success.
The fair hosted over twenty extremely successful companies from the fields of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science. The main
part of the event consisted of an actual fair,
where different companies offered job opportunities, promoted their brand, explained
their work ethic and presented active projects
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LC Belgrade – Serbia
Text: LC Belgrade Photographs: LC Belgrade
The project „JobFair - Create your own future!” emerged from our intention to offer the
possibility of direct contact between the students of engineering and technology and successful companies, and thus facilitate career
building in their home country.
The organizers of the Fair are two volunteer,
apolitical and non-profit student organizations: EESTEC and BEST. Through their vision
and goals, both offer the students to step into
the triangle “students-companies-university”
in order to improve their own organizational skills, work on their team and individual
performance, and to establish a closer contact with international scientific institutions
and leading companies.
the universities in Serbia and students from
across the country had the opportunity to find
employment within their profession.
The ninth annual job fair for students and
graduates of technical colleges of technology „JobFair - Create your own future!” was
held on 4th and 5th November 2013th in the
Technical Faculty in Belgrade. During the
fair, students had the opportunity to know
more about the activities and practices of
supply and trends in the field, through direct
discussions with the company. As a national
character fair, "Job Fair" was presented to all
During the two days of the fair, there were
left over 2500 CVs, and this year the fair was
visited by about 5,000 students from across
the country that took the opportunity to talk
with employers and find out about current
positions for practice and employment and
participate in educational activities that were
organized during the fair. The fair has offered
employment opportunities and professional
training for visitors in over 40 companies.
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