Career and Employability

 

Improving Visibility of Career Opportunities

We see a faculty-wide problem with students' knowledge of career possibilities and the bridge between study and career. Because of this, we want to help students by showing them ways they can get acquainted with the working field. One of the ways we want to accomplish this is by keeping contact with study associations on these specific topics. All of the study associations organize various career-related events. We can help the study associations by promoting these events.

Additionally, we want to create a clear schedule for each study program, which we can post on our social media pages and place on our website. This way, students can easily see which career events related to their study are organized throughout the year.

 

Advocating for Stronger Institutional Support

Another way we want to be more involved in employability is by staying in contact with various working groups within the faculty. Through this, we can look for ways to assist these groups and promote their initiatives through our platforms.

This is also a topic we want to raise with the Faculty Board, as results from the National Student Survey (NSE) have shown this to be a recurring concern for several years. Several key questions can be asked: Do students see the career events being offered? Is the faculty itself placing enough emphasis on employability? What could be improved?

As the Faculty Council, we aim to maintain a strong focus on this topic throughout the year. Even in the face of challenges such as budget cuts, we want to ensure that the faculty continues to offer as many career-related opportunities as students need.