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At the Techno Track career guidance forum about 400 students of Ƶ chose companies to continue their careers with
22 May

The Higher School of Technology and Power Engineering of St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design hosted the Techno Track Youth Forum of Engineering Professions for the first time. The event was attended by 32 companies from different business spheres, including Atomenergoproekt, Severnaya Kompaniya, Kondopoga Pulp and Paper Mill, Svetogorsk Pulp and Paper Mill, GUP TEK SPb, Ruselprom-LEZ, PhosAgro, GOTEK North-West, Active Component, Nevsky PKB, as well as HH.ru, the Committee for Labor and Employment, and the State Labor Inspectorate of St. Petersburg.

During the day at the Consulting Center of the Graduate School of Technology and Power Engineering of Ƶ there were employer stations, where about 400 students of the university took part in negotiations on employment, practice and internship.

HR specialist of Ilim Group Valeria Cherkashina:

The Higher School of Technology and Energy of Ƶ has students in our profile, and Ilim Group of Companies is the leader of the pulp and paper industry today. Our company employs 16000 people. We need technologists, engineers, automatizers, operators, and therefore we are very much waiting for students of the University of Industrial Technologies and Design at our production sites.

Techno Track is a modern format of interaction between school - university - enterprise. Its peculiarity is the focus only on engineering and technical specialties.

Alexandra Kolenova, Senior Specialist of the Personnel Training and Development Assessment Department of JSC Atomenergoproekt:

We attract students first for internship, later they are given advantages in employment. During the internship the student gets to know the enterprise. In this way we prepare future specialists for our industry and can employ them in the future.

The forum program included a large number of master classes, game practices and presentations of employing companies. The participants went through them in groups along a pre-determined route, which allowed them to attend all the interactive events and have time to negotiate further employment.

Anastasia Mesha, HR Manager at Severnaya Kompaniya LLC:

The University of Industrial Technology and Design has students of our profile with future education in the field of thermal power and heat engineering. All our managers are eager to hire graduates of the Graduate School of Technology and Power Engineering of Ƶ, take students for practical training, internships with the purpose of further long-term employment, cooperation, because the staff hunger is felt, and we want to identify talented young people interested in building a successful career at our company, we are ready to help them, to train them, to guide them in the right direction, expanding the boundaries of our activities.

Natalia Yakovleva, HR Director of Racurs Group of Companies:

Graduates of the University of Industrial Technologies and Design meet the qualifications of the industry in which our company operates, namely automation. Therefore, we actively attract programmers, designers, designers.

The forum began with a session in the concert hall of the university. In the section "Trajectories of successful careers" the topic of discussion was career plan, competition in the labor market for young specialists, expectations on salaries, portrait of an employee that employers want to see, the list of demanded competencies.

Game practices were conducted with the help of virtual reality technologies. Interactives on NPP safety systems design were presented by specialists from Atomenergoproekt; on electric motor assembly and disassembly - by Ruselprom-LEZ; virtual tours of the boiler house - by TEK SPb, and to the wood preparation shop - by INPRO Engineering and Consulting.

The presented vacancies of employers-partners of the forum have already been entered on the project website. For the convenience of search they are placed according to professions: automatic machine operators, industrial designers, logisticians, managers, mechanics and electromechanics, technologists and so on.

Tatiana Sinitsyna, Senior HR Manager at Svetogorsk Pulp and Paper Mill:

We took a very responsible approach to preparing our participation in the Techno Track forum, as we actively cooperate with the University of Industrial Technology and Design and strive to become a company that students know and where they would like to get an internship or a job. It is great that we had an opportunity to communicate with the participants in different formats - more informally at the poster session, to share useful information during the master class held by our employees, as well as to present the company and our programs for students and graduates. I would also like to mention the high-quality preparation of the event by the organizers and the clear and well-coordinated work of the coordinators at the fair itself. Once again I note for myself that there is a very positive, open and friendly atmosphere in the walls of SPbGUPTD! We very much hope that we managed to interest students in the opportunities that our company provides for young professionals.

Reference: Techno Track Forum is organized by the Graduate School of Technology and Energy of Ƶ and the Center for Practical Training and Career of Ƶ.