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The ALBA Career & Alumni Office offers a wide range of career services, in order to help students and Alumni design or redesign successfully their career path.
Career Policy Statement
For ethical and professional reasons, ALBA does not directly support placement efforts of students who are fully or partly sponsored by their employers (all academic Programs). An exception is made for students who are employed in family business.
ALBA Alumni have access to job market information resources and career advice and counselling. They are also welcome to seek individual placement support, provided when they are not currently employed.
Mission
The mission of the Career Office is to provide, on the basis of AlBA’s extensive knowledge of the job market and its close links with the business community, excellent support to assist students and alumni in gaining outstanding career relative to their skills, goals and expectations.
Career Services
The Career and Alumni Office offers a wide range of services to help the students in their career planning and development. Specific services include:
- Access to job market
- Career Counselling
- CV Preparation & Resume Book
- Career Development Events & Activities
ACCESS TO JOB MARKET
Job Market Information
A variety of support services are offered to all students wishing to gain extensive, up to date information about the job market.
Reference material
- Data bank of about 3,000 companies and organizations Includes companies cooperating with ALBA, Executive Search & Selection firms, companies listed on the Athens Stock Exchange, etc. Leaflets, annual reports, etc. are available at the Library (Career Section)
- Printed material (books, handouts etc.) on Career Development issues, including publications on interviewing techniques, CV writing, etc. available at the Library (Career Section)
Market information
- Articles and surveys about the labor market, the working environment and employment trends available at the Library (Career Section)
Job Placement
The Career & Alumni Office offers students eligible for direct placement support (see policy statement) individual assistance and guidance in order to provide business community with the right employee in the right position. We help students get in touch with potential employers, we assist them in evaluating and comparing various offers, and we keep record of each student's career-related activities and contacts with potential employers. Career Office also serves as link between companies and students.
Job postings
- Specific job vacancies submitted to ALBA
- Selected press and internet announcements
Postings are placed on the Career Office Announcements Board and forwarded to all students. Qualified students interested in a specific posting may contact the company directly.
CAREER COUNSELING
On-going counselling is offered to any student wishing to discuss specific career issues on an individual basis. The purpose of Career Counselling is to understand students' needs and to prepare and strengthen them to take the right decision about their career.
This is a service to all ALBA students, aiming at
exploring personality characteristics, skills and competencies
setting career objectives
job market targeting
making job profile analysis and job market targeting
preparing personal career action plan
achieving career redesign
CV PREPARATION & RESUME BOOK
The Career Office works closely with non-sponsored students eligible for direct placement in preparing their CV, to be included in the annual RESUME BOOK, which is sent out to a wide variety of selected companies, along with an invitation to participate in the annual Career Forum. This is a prerequisite for all students participating in the Career Forum.
The RESUME BOOK serves as a useful tool for all potential recruiters, regardless of whether they attend the Career Forum or not.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT EVENTS & ACTIVITIES
Career Development Activities
Career Development activities aim at exploring or strengthening students’ personal skills, in order to be able to successfully perform in interviews with potential employers at the Career Forum or after completion of their studies. These are:
- Interviewing Skills Workshop - Interviewing Role Playing
(A prerequisite for all students who are going to participate in the Career Forum)
This is an intensive workshop that takes place near the end of studies, aiming at training students on how to perform best in interviews with potential recruiters The main objective of the workshop for the participants is to obtain a competitive advantage in their attempt to gain the job they wish through in depth understanding of the selection process and through improvement of their skills as interviewees.
Interviewing role playing is an interactive practice that helps students explore their strengths and weaknesses during an interview, taking either the role of the interviewee or the role of the interviewer.
- Psychometrics Tests.
These tests measure personal abilities that are directly related to the effective or superior performance of an employee in a job. ALBA provides its students with the opportunity to practice the Verbal Critical Reasoning VMG1 and Numerical Critical Reasoning NMG1 of SHL in order to familiarize them with this assessment procedure and make them feel more confident and relaxed during the selection process. These tests are used by the biggest multinational/Greek companies for the evaluation of applicants within the early stage of the selection process.( SHL company was founded by Professor Peter Saville and Roger Holdsworth, Chartered Psychologists, fellow and associate fellow of the British Psychological Society).
Career Development Events
Career Development events aim at enhancing students’ understanding of the job market
Career-Related Panels
(A prerequisite for all students who are going to participate in the Career Forum)
- Companies' presentations
- Panels on various managerial fields and functions with experienced business executives
- Panels on career prospects, opportunities and challenges, by ALBA Alumni
- Panels with entrepreneurs who have established their own firms or run a family business
The Career Forum
The ALBA Career Forum is a service offered to our students which provides both students and potential employers with the opportunity to come in contact with each other and jointly explore employment possibilities. Career Forum takes place in September.
Each year, along with invitations to participate in the annual Career Forum, potential corporate recruiters receive the RESUME BOOK containing the CVs of our graduates. The Career Forum is open to all students except for those fully or partly sponsored by their employers. Those graduates with pending military obligations are encouraged to benefit from the Career Forum which takes place in their year of studies. Furthermore, they are entitled to participate in one future Career Forum, following the completion of their military service.
A total of 280 Greek and multinational companies have participated in the ALBA Career Forum events in the period 1993 - 2007.
In the 15th Career Forum of 2007, 118 companies participated represented by 190 recruiters.
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