PREPARING FOR THREE NEW UNIVERSITY CAREER CENTERS
NOVI SAD – NIS – KRAGUJEVAC

Belgrade, 11 June 2007 – Thanks to the excellent cooperation of the Foundation of Crown Prince Alexander for Culture and Education with the University of Nottingham and their Career Development Centre, the project of introducing university career information and advisory service for students and graduates continues.

Within preparations for three new university centres for career development and counselling students, initial teams of future University Centres for Career Development of the University of Novi Sad, Kragujevac and Nis attended the special know-how training in Nottingham, and another training is planned to be held during this summer at the University Centre for Career Development of the University of Belgrade.

It is expected that all three centres start operating this year. In addition please find more detailed information received from each of initial teams upon their return from the training in UK.  

Novi Sad, 11 June 2007- Under the patronage of  HRH Crown Prince Alexander II, the training program from 2 until 9 June 2007 was organized for the second time by the Centre for Career Development at the University of Nottingham, this time for the delegation of forthcoming Career Development and Counseling Centre at University of Novi Sad. This training was organized for the first time last year for the staff of Centre for Career Development at University of Belgrade, which is now showing its first results.

During the training the staff from University of Novi Sad worked with employees from the Career Centre of University of Nottingham and participates in workshops and training sessions for learning basic know-how necessary skills in establishing and running the future Career Centre, which will be the new service for the students and graduates at University of Novi Sad. Training was held by experts in carrier guidance and counseling and they provided their fully experience from Centre, which exists for last 50 years at University of Nottingham.

This new service at University will provide students all help in developing their careers such as: workshops in CV, preparation on interviews, self esteem training, face to face and virtual counseling, providing work experience and information about how to apply.

Kragujevac, 11 June 2007 - As a preparation for the creation of the Centre for Career Development at the University of Kragujevac, under the patronage of HRH Crown Prince Alexander II, the team of the Centre participated at the training programme at the Centre for Career Development at the University of Nottingham in the period from 2 until 9 June 2007.

During an intensive training seminar, the team from the Centre underwent a series of workshops, lectures and presentations run by experts from the University of Nottingham, whose goal was to give practical knowledge on role, organization and function of a centre for career development at the university level. Apart from acquiring knowledge on informing students, programme also included advising students, services to employers, organizing events, visiting a smaller Centre at the University of Lincoln as well as individual projects which will be the base for the establishment of the Centre for Career Development in Kragujevac.

The mission of the Centre will be to provide information related to employment and career development, to advise students on the choice of occupation and facilitate the process of acquisition of work experience and practical knowledge. The Centre will organize Graduate Recruitment Fairs as well as lectures, presentations, workshops and seminars for students to get the skills needed for career development.

A similar Centre was established last year at the initiative of the Foundation of Crown Prince Alexander for Culture and Education at the University of Belgrade.

It is expected that the Centre for Career Development at the University of Kragujevac will be opened at the beginning of the new school year.

Nis, 11 June 2007 – Under the patronage of the Foundation of Crown Prince Alexander for Culture and Education a training program for initial team of perspective Center for career development of University of Nis was organized by Center for Career Development of University of Nottingham from 2 until 9 June 2007.

This training program included acquiring know-how on organization structure of the Center for career development in Nottingham, several work-shops on topics about improving job-hunting skills (writing CV, interview skills, writing motivation letter etc), one-day training on career guidance and direct counseling of students, visit to Center for career development of University of Lincoln and visit to Graduate Recruitment fair. Intensive work with experts in the field of career guidance and contacts with employers and students of these universities in England enabled acquiring necessary know-how on establishment and running the Center.

The Centre for Career Development of the University of Nis will provide various services for students in the field of informing about career opportunities and job-hunting skills, as existing centers of this type in England and Belgrade do.

It is expected that Center will be opened at the beginning of academic year 2007/08 at the premises of University of Nis.