15 employer companies, 3 lectures, 2 stand-up comedians and a competition with a prize fund of 120 thousand rubles: Career Day, held at our university on 14 March, turned out to be eventful. Students learned about the current situation in the industry, broadened their professional horizons, got acquainted with career opportunities in the region and took a step towards their dream job.

The event was organized by the SPbGASU Division for Student Entrepreneurship and Career and the Faculty of Civil Engineering, as well as one of the leading developers of engineering software, the Nanosoft company.

We choose, we get chosen

Career Day gave students the opportunity to see companies' presentations and interact directly with employers. Even those who had not yet thought about future employment noted the benefits of the event. Young people are interested in what specialties the country needs, what companies do, and what requirements are imposed on applicants. According to SPbGASU students, a dream job should satisfy material needs and be interesting.

Such well-known companies as Metrostroy of the Northern Capital, Setl Group, Samolet Group, State Unitary Enterprise Vodokanal of St Petersburg and others are interested in new personnel.

They want to see talented, smart and purposeful people at the Acron Engineering Research and Design Center LLC, a subsidiary of Acron PJSC. The company carries out complex engineering work, designs chemical industry and civil facilities. Here they are ready to offer students internships or jobs. This was stated by Nikita Semenov, information modeling technician.

The flow of interested visitors at the stand of Atomenergoproekt, the largest design institute in the Russian nuclear industry, which is part of the engineering division of Rosatom and has more than 75 years of experience in designing nuclear power plants around the world, did not wane. Representatives of the company answered questions from students about what tasks they would have to solve, what programs they would use and what equipment they would work with. The requirements for applicants are quite high, but completing an internship at the company will be an advantage when looking for a job. A framework agreement has been concluded between Atomenergoproekt and SPbGASU, said Aleksandra Kalyonova, senior specialist in the personnel assessment and training department.

The art of compiling a resume

Olga Zenina

Olga Zenina, head of career guidance division at SuperJob and a certified expert in emotional intelligence, shared useful tips on writing a resume. The speaker recommended that students show individuality, look for their own characteristics and be able to demonstrate them.

According to Olga Zenina, experienced HR specialists evaluate a resume in about five seconds. At the same time, most people are visual people, and the first thing a recruiter evaluates is photography. Resumes without a photo are viewed 25 percent less often than resumes with a photo. Successful and unsuccessful examples of photographs were analyzed by the lecture participants themselves.

What to write on your resume if you have no experience? Olga Zenina revealed a secret: every student has experience. This concept is much broader: it includes practical classes, internships, participation in specialized exhibitions and forums, theses, part-time jobs or freelancing, and extracurricular activities. If you have no experience in your profile, you should indicate any other. This is important because many employers look not only at professional skills, but also at personal competencies. Any part-time job during your student years allows you to improve your communication skills, responsibility, and diligence.

At the end of the lecture, the audience received an invitation to join SuperJob Start, a job search platform for students and young professionals from SuperJob.

How to enter the labor market

Yaroslava Kalyanova, recruitment specialist at Ancor HR holding, spoke about the situation on the labor market. Today, employers need “stars” – young specialists with high potential. Such a person is confident in himself, aims at a specific company, and presents his experience based on the requirements of the vacancy.

The speaker recommended training “soft” competencies that compensate for the lack of experience, and bringing self-presentation to automaticity - after all, on our life path we probably meet more than one employer, and this is normal. You should study the company market and draw up a search map. The next step is to write a resume and interact with vacancies through Head Hunter, social networks and recruitment agencies.

The advantages of recruitment agencies are access to confidential vacancies (these are vacancies that are on the market, but they are not visible in the public domain), as well as information databases in which data is stored for decades. The recruitment agency will select favorable salary offers, provide feedback from the employer, prepare for interviews, support in competitions, and will “fight” for the candidate.

Yaroslava Kalyanova provided a selection of channels with vacancies and interdisciplinary positions that are relevant for SPbGASU students, calling on them to adhere to a business style when communicating with employers on social networks: do not forget to fully introduce yourself, indicate which vacancy you are applying for, and ask for feedback.

TOP 10 outstanding architectural projects implemented in Russia in the 2020s

Talking about modern architecture is the main professional and personal passion of Anna Mortovitskaya, the creator of the YouTube and Telegram channels “Archiblog”, an employee of the architectural bureau “SPEECH”. For the lecture, Anna selected ten buildings to show with examples that today in Russia buildings of the most varied artistic and technical levels of implementation and scale are being built.

Oleg Egorychev and Svetlana Golovina

Svetlana Golovina, SPbGASU First Vice-Rector, thanked the lecturers and organizers of Career Day, noting the great work that had been done.

Oleg Egorychev, director of programs for developing interaction with educational and scientific organizations at Nanosoft, expressed confidence that SPbGASU students will have an excellent professional path, because they have chosen a sought-after industry and are receiving the best education in this area.

Marina Malyutina, head of the SPbGASU Division for Student Entrepreneurship and Career, spoke about the work of the division she heads, which was created this January. The focus of the management is not only employment, but also practical studies, internships, and courses that complement the main educational program. Two acceleration programs for student entrepreneurship have been launched. One of them, TechnoPiter, was launched jointly with the St Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation. The second, called “I’m in business,” is being implemented together with the “Captains” charitable foundation for supporting educational programs. Announcements of career guidance events, open lectures, master classes are published in the Telegram channel @CAREER_GASU; and you can get individual career advice in the University office 233-G.

Semyon Vasiliev

As part of the Career Day, a competition was held to develop skills in the nanoCAD platform. This domestic CAD platform is the flagship product of the Nanosoft company. Contestants tested basic skills, completed a practical task and had a quest to search for information at employers' stands. While waiting for the results of the competition to be summed up, the audience was entertained by stand-up comedians: Semyon Vasiliev, host of Comedy Radio, and Sergey Ponomarenko, participant in the Open Microphone project on TNT. Career Day ended with the presentation of prizes and gifts to the winners of the competition. These were the students:

• Viktor Gureev (1st place);
• Karina Voronina (2nd place);
• Nina Gagulina (3rd place);
• Alina Kizchenko (4th place);
• Artyom Dergachev (5th place);
• Pavel Kolontaevsky (6th place);
• Zlata Zolotykh (7th place);
• Diana Ershova (8th place);
• Daria Taramova (9th place);
• Polina Dyakova (10th place).

The organizers of the Career Day emphasize that such events help find work not only for future architects and builders, but also for lawyers, economists, and managers.