The ongoing EUINet pilot experiment

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The ongoing EUI-Net pilot experiment
Concept and realization of a European Network of
CDOs

• Mónika ANDRÁSI Csaba FORGÁCS Tamás MIZIK
• Athens, Sept 28, 2006
• Email tamas.mizik_at_uni-corvinus.hu

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• Content
• Career Development Office (CDO) at Corvinus
  University of Budapest (CUB)1. Vision
  Mission2. Main activities - event management -
  information services - career guidance3.
  Statistics4. Budget5. Networking
• Proposal Cooperation with EUI-Net

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Your ambition is our profession

• Establishment Fall 1996 the first career
  management unit in Central and Eastern Europe
• Founder USAID Grant (Know-how from Indiana
  University Kelly School of Business)
• Number of employees
• at the foundation 1 academic1 student helper1
  administrative.
• now 4 full time HR professionals 2-4 student
  helper
• External experts e.g. Teachers of Psychogical
  Faculty

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1. Mission

• to build a bridge among the highly qualified
  students and the business sphere
• to help graduates to find the most suitable
  positioning accordance with expertise and field
  of interest
• To help enterprises to identify and employ the
  most suitable graduates for their available
  positions
• our services are available for students of other
  universities and colleges

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Redefining Mission under consideration

• New vision
• To become number one recruitment and selection
  partner on the field of fresh and young
  graduates.

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2. Main activities 3 pillars

• 2.1. Event management
• 2.2. Information services
• 2.3. Career guidance
• Database used in the Office
• number of companies 2000 Hungarian and
  multinational companies
• number of students 5500 (Online Career
  Newsletter 1-3 times a week)

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2.1. Event management

• The Conventional company presentations, open
  days (weekly)
• The most popular Career Pizza (company
  presentation followed by a pizza party)
• The most well known CareerExpo (two day job
  fair, 2 times per annum, in spring and autumn.
  6-8000 visitors from 30-35 universities, 60-120
  exhibitors.
• Latest activity CV screening followed by
  preselection interviews and company test writing
  (once in a month, 60-200 students per event)

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2.2. Information services

• For job hunters
• Professional job hunting tricks (role playing,
  mock interview, etc.),
• Providing information about key factors to find
  the ideal job (tasks at different fields and
  positions, the value of degrees and professions
  on the labour market, the list of top companies
  and long term promotion facilities)
• For employers preferences of fresh graduates
  (survey - 2 times a year since 1998 what kind of
  motivations has the fresh graduates on the labor
  market) (questionnaire)

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2.3. Career guidance

• Individual and group guidance (small group of
  students max. 5 students)
• Graphology, and psychological tests, the
  fundamentals of legal questions (Labour law)
• Career management seminar (course 15 weeks, two
  hours per week, preferred before JOB Fair, 2x per
  year)
• Career issues /brochures/
• Navigator 2005 Plan Your Career! (Written, pp
  80), Career CD, usually made in 5-15000 copies
  annually

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3. Statistics

• Academic year 2005/2006
• Appr. 200 positions delivered (appr. 90-100
  companies)
• Average 2,2 recruitment programs/week
• Career Expo 2006. Spring
• 120 companies
• 3000 positions (job offer)

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4. Budget

• Main sources and their proportions Turnover
  Euro 32000/year (self-financing)
• revenues from jobposting (monthly advertising
  fee) - 35
• national tenders - 20
• revenues from CareerExpo (stand fee) - 45
• Expenditures
• Human (wage and benefits) - 65
• Material expenditure rent, cost of training,
  cost of communications - 20
• Accumulation expenditure (maintenance,
  renovation) - 10
• Other (5)

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5. Networking

• CDO is an organiser and a participant of national
  and international forums, conferences and
  trainings since 1998
• Founder of Hungarian Association of Career
  Centers, (Federation of individuals) (CDOs at
  CUB, TEUB, UPÉCS, USZEGED, UDEBRECEN, UMISKOLC.
  Not legal entities) Challenge Career planning
  is compulsory by Law on HE, came into force on
  March 1, 2006.
• Founder of National Association of Student
  Services (not active)
• Member of NACE (National Association of Colleges
  and Employers, USA) Annual conference Good
  source of information.
• Daily contacts with the Hungarian Higher
  Education Institutes (35) and with 20 European,
  American universities

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Networking within EUI-Net

• Establishing communication channel between
  EUI-Net and CDO at Corvinus University of
  Budapest ?
• Evaluating the possibility of linking on-line
  systems of EUI-Net and CDO in Budapest and Vienna
  ?
• Initiation of organizing a network of CDOs of
  Europe (CDOE) including all steakholders of job
  management
• Integration of network of CDOE with EUI-Net
  (during and after the project individual
  interests, coordination and cooperation)
• EUI-Net CDOE joint actions
• Virtual
• Joint conferences on European job opportunities
  for young graduates and needs of companies
• Joint research etc.

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• Proposal
• 1. Integrating of National CDOs into new EUI-Net
  application (new partners)
• 2. Establishing the largest networks of
  Universities and CDOs in Europe to match
  employers needs and student expectations on
  mobility and job hunting

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How to proceed? - Questions for discussion

• 1. How to integrate CDOs into EUI-Net structure?
• security of personal data (international and
  national laws)
• Establishment of a distinct SIG in the new
  project related to the CDOs net
• working out steps to be taken to realize
  strategic goals for this
• 2. What we have now for SIG5 State of art is
  needed.
• 3. Strategy finding new CDOs who would like to
  join (structure!).
• 4. CDO is a self-sustainable business. The CDO
  net MUST be the same.

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How to proceed? - Questions for discussion
(continued)

• 5. What kind of model for exploiting the European
  database ? Two-stage?
• first stage anonym query at European level
• second stage direct query at affected local CDOs
• 6. Linkages in the model to the affected CDOs
• 7. Data management (the CDOs should be able to
  separate queries from the model)
• 8. Who and how pays the bill?
• Depends on the type of the system
• Hungary monthly fee (not affected by the number
  of queries) free for students/school leavers

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• Thank you for your attention!