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| | | | | Fedora Career Guidance & Employment Group
An interface between students in higher education and the world of work
Are you an employer of graduates concerned about:
- recruiting "European" graduates?
- appropriate qualifications for your business?
- relevant experience?
- different systems of higher education?
- how to contact students?
- different methods of recruiting
- cultural differences
Career Guidance & Employment Group role:
- The Fedora Career Guiance & Employer Group aims to help employers, students and their institutions to understand the labour market and transitions between higher education and the world of work. This includes:
- systems of education and training at national levels
- systems in different institutions and the role of work experience
- systems of guidance and information
- methods of establishing relationships with universities and students
Activities and achievements:
- publishing information, newsletters and directories
- organising conferences and seminars
- encouraging visits, networks and exchanges
- European conferences in Cambridge (UK) 1990; Louvain -la- Neuve (B) 1992; Rostock (D), 1996; Oulu (Fin), 1998; Stoke Poges (UK) 2004
- contributions to Association of Graduate Recruiters’ conferences (1996; 2000) and Fedora Congresses in Berlin (D) 1991; Barcelona (E) 1994; l’Aquila (I) 1997 and Edinburgh (2000)
- contributions to Fedora Summer Schools in Montpellier(F) 1993, Dublin(IRE) 1995, Amsterdam(NL) 1996, Bordeaux(F) 1998, Stockholm(S) 1999. Paris (F) 2001
Structure and purpose:
- composed of university advisers and employers from across the European Union and associate countries
- ethic of mutual confidence necessary for frank exchange and two-way flow of information
- to keep higher education advisers informed of changes and opportunities for students within the employment market
- to keep employers informed of changes and developments in higher education
Structure - who is already involved?
- Aristotle University at Thessaloniki (Gr)
- Association Bernard Gregory (F)
- BMW
- Universite de Bordeaux (F)
- BP
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
- Catholic University of Louvain la Neuve (B)
- College de l’Europe (B)
- University of Cambridge (UK)
- Graduate Prospects (UK)
- University of Freiburg (D)
- ICI
- ING
- University of Limerick (Ire)
- Nicholas Copernicus University (PL)
- Université Paris VII (F)
- University of Patras (Gr)
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- University of Helsinki (FIN)
How could my organisation be involved?
- there are a number of key employment sectors not represented at present
- does your organisation want to influence debate and change?
- are there European recruitment issues you need to share within a professional and responsible group?
- are there changes within European universities that you need to know about now, rather than discover when it’s too late to respond?
- Are there changes in graduate careers that you want to know about?
This section last updated by Juha Lahti 16-08-04.
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