Career Development Office (CDO) at Corvinus University of Budapest (CUB)

1. Extending cooperation of EUI-Net towards CDOs Career Development Office (CDO) at Corvinus University of Budapest(CUB) Mónika ANDRÁSI – Csaba FORGÁCS Athens, June 19-20, 2006

2. Content * Career Development Office (CDO) at CUB1. Vision – Mission2. Main activities - event management - information services - career guidance3. Statistics4. Budget5. Networking * Proposal: Cooperation with EUI-Net Corvinus University Budapest

3. „Your ambition is our profession” • Establishment: Fall 1996 – the first career management unit in Central and Eastern Europe. 10 year anniversary! • Founder: USAID Grant (Know-how from Indina University Kelly School of Business) • Number of employees • at the foundation: 1 academic+1 student helper+1 administrative. • now: 4 full time HR professionals +2-4 student helper • External experts: eg. Teachers of Psychogical Faculty Corvinus University Budapest

4. 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 • our services are available for students of other universities and colleges Corvinus University Budapest

5. Redifining Mission: under consideration New vision: To become number one recruitment and selection partner on the field of fresh and young graduates Corvinus University Budapest

6. 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) Corvinus University Budapest

7. 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 dayjob 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) Corvinus University Budapest

8. 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) Corvinus University Budapest

9. 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 Corvinus University Budapest

10. 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) Corvinus University Budapest

11. 4. Budget Main sources and their proportions: Turnover: Euro 32000/year • revenues from jobposting (advertising) (35%) • Tenders (20%) • Revenues from CareerExpo (45%) Expenditures • Human (65%) • Material expenditure: rent, cost of training, cost of communications (20%) • Accumulation expenditure (10%) • Other (5%) Corvinus University Budapest

12. 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, (Federtaion 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 Corvinus University Budapest

13. Networking with EUI-Net • Estalishing communicational channel between EUI-Net and CDO at Corvinus University of Budapest • Evaluating the possibility of linking on-line systems of EUI-Net and CDO at CUB • Initiation of organizing a network of CDOs of Europe (CDOE) including all steakholders of job management • Linkage of network of CDOE with EUI-Net • EUI-Net – CDOE joint actions • Virtual • Joint conferences on Europen job opportunities for young graduates and needs of companies • Joint research etc. Corvinus University Budapest

14. Proposal 1. Invitation for SIG5 of EUI-Net- to set up cooperation with CDO at CUB in Budapest 2. Integrating cooperation with National CDOs into new EUI-Net application 3. Establishing the largest networks of Universities and CDOs in Europe to match employers’ needs and student expectations on mobility and job hunting Corvinus University Budapest

15. Thank you for your attention! Corvinus University Budapest