EESTEC Magazine Vol 34 2014/1 | Page 44

Career - Power Your Future KONTEH14 LC Novi Sad - Serbia Text: Ivana Živic, LC Novi Sad Photographs: LC Novi Sad For the eighth time, LC Novi Sad organised yet another successful job fair - KONTEH14 that took place on 3rd and 4th of April this year. KONTEH, fair of business opportunities and professional practice, represents a great opportunity for students and people with faculty degree looking for a job. Our main goal is to connect students with representatives of local, as well as, foreign companies that are looking for new employees or are willing to offer professional practice in their company to students. This year, British company Devtech was our general sponsor. Among other companies that participated were Microsoft Development Center Serbia, Levi9, Hinttech, VegaIT Sourcing, Execom, M&I Systems and others. These companies were able to communicate with young and ambitious people and also give presentations of their companies. KONTEH14 is supported by the Faculty of technical sciences, where it took place, the City of Novi Sad and also the National employment service. The National employment service is the host of workshops that visitors of our fair can attend every year. The purpose of these workshops is to teach you how to act in an interview and how to advance in your career. This year’s workshops were “Career Development in the 21st Century” and “Verbal and nonverbal communication”. We had many visitors and received great feedback from them and also from companies, which tells us that all the hard work has paid off. But don't worry, after hard work come a reward! We had a party for all people that helped making this possible! JobFAIR LC Athens – Greece Text: Maria Gontika, LC Athens Photographs: LC Athens Job Fair Athens is, during the past 3 years, the biggest students’ initiative in Greece in the field of the job market, hitting the problem of youth unemployment in the core. Up till now, 63 of the largest companies in Greece have participated, and more than 4.600 students and graduates from polytechnic, technological and economic university departments have visited Job Fair Athens. Our power and key to our success lies in our volunteers, and this is why we place considerable emphasis on their complete and meticulous training during the preparation of the event. This year our event will be held during the 14th & 15th of May 2014. This being the 4th year in which Job Fair Athens is organised, we are constantly struggling for improvement and innovation. We are creating our new Human Resources department. We define our culture, so that our values, according to which we function, become comprehensible. We aim at our visitors to gain the most positive and optimistic experience possible. So this is why we organise Job Fair Athens for a 4th consecutive year! Within the Job Fair Athens 2014 framework, presentations and seminars will be conducted towards the end of April, in order to inform and guide those that are interested in terms of the subject of the event such as CV trainings and Interview Skills training from HR representatives. This year we took the initiative to write down our principles which in total combine the EESTEC spirit within Job Fair Athens. Some of which are these: • We encourage and protect the initiative. • We can be serious without wearing a tie. • We feel responsible for the impact of our action in society. 44