OUR MISSION

The Careers Service at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun was set up for the purpose of helping our students and graduates to plan their careers and easing difficulties in finding appropriate employment.

MAIN TASKS OF CAREERS SERVICE

The Careers Service at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun was set up for the purpose of helping our students and graduates to plan their careers and easing difficulties in finding appropriate employment.

• career guidance for students and graduates to help them enter the rapidly changing job market and develop an active professional life

  The career advisers meet mainly the fourth and the fifth year students from all the departments. Guidance is an expert task that requires dealing with many aspects of the student's life, ambitions, skills, potential, value and possibilities. As a result of our interviews with students and graduates we have gathered quite a lot of information about their education, job experience, social activity, various trainings and courses taken during or after study time but not necessarily associated with their university course (computer skills, knowledge of foreign languages, driving licence, etc.).

  We provide the students of all the university departments with different workshops to help them write CVs, covering letters and application forms, we demonstrate different methods used in selection procedures and help them prepare for interviews with prospective employers. To help students plan their careers and also prepare for their first interview with an employer, the careers service has assembled as much information about companies as possible, this is in the form of leaflets, annual reports, brochures, company magazines and journals. We are keen to receive as much information as we can from employers.

  Moreover, the Careers Staff try to collect rich and detailed information about postgraduate and PhD studies, special courses, both at home and abroad, and also about scholarships and funds that would enable a student to cover all the expenses of studying abroad.

  The Careers Service can also help students find information about summer jobs. Since 1996 we have been recruiting for an International Camp Counsellor Program, which provides students with summer jobs on youth camps in USA.

• to help employers to find the most suitable candidates for their vacancies

  Careers Service collaborates with employers both from the regions of Toruń, Bydgoszcz and Włocławek and the whole country. That includes:

  1. gathering information about job offers and information about companies, procedures and policies of graduate recruitment, internship programmes and summer jobs.

  2. candidate preselection for specific vacancies. The information provided by employers together with the recognition of the students' and graduates' skills and possibilities are the basis for their further matching in such a way that it will enable the candidates to find the most suitable posts and to develop all their abilities. Employers can expect us to recommend the best applicants and arrange interviews. If needed we can present a list of registered job seekers to a specific job offer.

  3. organizing employers' presentation at the university for two last years students. Presentations are an excellent opportunity for employers to raise the best students' interest, and to make a powerful impression of a company on them. Companies who plan to employ graduates or organize students internship can meet students to inform them about their future recruitment plans.

     When meeting students employers representatives usually present:

     • a brief history of their company and its achievements;
     • a description of the organizational structure of the company;
     • profile of products and services;
     • job conditions and benefits;
     • recruitment procedures and plans;
     • opportunities for promotion and in-service training;
     • description of staff requirements;
     • possibilities of attending student internships (during an academic year or as a summer job) and doing diploma thesis on the company's projects.
     Presentations take place in the University lecture rooms - the employer can select the faculty or department as a venue for their presentation. After the formal presentation, there is usually plenty of opportunity for more informal individual contact in the bar or canteen.
  4. organizing spring job fairs in the Main University Hall. Job fairs are an important event for final year students from all the Nicolaus Copernicus University departments and for employers who have an opportunity to meet students. For the last eight years we have already organized that form of "employment agency".

CAREERS SERVICE STAFF