At Faculty Job Fairs

Even though Croatian software industry is becoming more and more successful, and is recognized as a lever for success in the Croatian Industrial Strategy, its development is not accompanied by an adequate offer of qualified people that graduated from technical faculties. It is estimated that Croatia lacks approximately 1 000 experts on a yearly basis. Therefore, employers actively present themselves to students, mainly at job fairs at the faculties, searching for great talents.

From Monday, May 2 until Friday, May 6, the fifth consecutive career fair under the name (Tje)dan karijera was held at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varaždin, while the central event took place on Friday. At the fair, the visitors were able to participate in numerous activities, focused on careful consideration of career choice, as well as on career development. The activities were a special part of lectures and workshops held for students by over 30 employers from IT and business sector, including Ericsson Nikola Tesla. Students showed great interest and asked members of our team numerous questions, which encouraged new initiatives and new forms of collaboration.

Renowned employers from the IT sector participated in the central panel discussion; among them were Gordana Kovačević, Msc, President of Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Damjan Mravunac, CMO at CROteam, Hrvoje Prpić, CEO at Trillenium, Damir Sabol, CEO at Photomath, and Alan Sumina, Co-Founder of Nanobit. They shared their experience related to the beginning of their respective careers, as well as to conducting business in general. Afterwards, the students and employers briefly switched roles, and the students were given a chance to evaluate pitch presentations given by the employers, talk to the employers, and gather more information about career opportunities.

Croatia’s largest faculty job fair, the one in Zagreb, at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, was held on May 9-10. FER Job Fair was organized by the Faculty, in collaboration with two student associations – KSET and BEST. Over 40 most prestigious Croatian and global employers (such as Google and Microsoft) from IT, banking, automobile, and other industries, tried to recruit the best qualified people. Students were able to learn more about jobs and practices in space technology development, IoT, computer games, big data, mobile applications, artificial intelligence, and many other fields that attract the interest of big Croatian and foreign companies and start-ups.

At our stand, the students were able to talk to the representatives of units that employ most people and offer the possibility of part-time working and training. An additional presentation was held as well, where the students found out why Ericsson Nikola Tesla is a good place to work.