Faculty of Economics opened the Employment Forums’ season in Universitat de València with the 23rd Employment and Entrepreneurship Forum, an event with 40 public and private companies and entities attending to a hall full of local and international students making contacts. The event grants them 40 work opportunities that can be consulted in the Forum’s website.
The 40 stands were ready right from the start, welcoming the students from six different degrees, three double-degrees and sixteen official master degrees from the Universitat de València’s Faculty of Economics, which holds the highest employability. Aaccording to the last UVocupació’s Study of Employment from Degrees, the employability from this Faculty’s graduates goes from 91.3% to 100%: full employment from the International Business degree.
Continuous Education, Educational Transformation and Employment Vice-Principal, Ángeles Solanes, highlights: “we’re the best Faculty of Economics nationally and internationally”, a first in organising an employment expo that makes its 23rd edition this year, in which a UV forum cycle is included for the first time.
Ángeles Solanes reminds us of the 525th anniversary of Universitat de València: “a five centuries old university, deeply rooted yet not a relic but a leader”, that keeps giving birth to future professionals in the most upcoming areas of science, technology, social and humanistic studies.
Vice-Principal Ángeles Solanes inaugurated the Economics Forum along with the Faculty’s dean Francisco Muñoz, and presented by Employability and Internship Vice-Dean, Elvira Cerver.
Other remarkable attendants include Economics and Infrastructure Vice-Principal Justo Herrera, Universitat de València’s General Foundation manager Cristóbal Suria, representing the Employment and Internship Principal Jesús Soret, the Faculty’s dean team, professor and Faculty of Economics’ ex-Dean José Manuel Pastor and heads and teachers from different departments and master degrees.
Ángeles Solanes bestowed calm to the forum’s student attendants. Just like employability reports show “you’re young students far more than ready for the job market who have completed their degree in ‘this’ Faculty of Economics”
Francisco Muñoz has shared the general results on graduate employability in Spain, which is increasing even if still under the Faculty of Economics’ shadow. Even so, he considers it a “very positive progress”, as job offers “come from knowledge-based activities and generation-passing enhancement”. He claims master degrees are vital to increase employability since highly prepared profiles are on high demand.
Face to face with the job market
The event has run ten parallel activities including conferences, talks, workshops, colloquia and company networking along with:
- Fundació València Activa from Valencia City Council
- Labora. Valencial Service of Employment and Education
- Employability from Fundación ONCE, for disabled people’s employability
- Caixa Popular, cooperative Valencian sustainable and approachable bank
- Valencian Community Tax Advisors’ Professional Association, supporting new workers
- Valencia’s Economists Association, representative of economics professionals in Valencian territory
- Consum Cooperativa, a reference in supply companies
- Deloitte Legal, advisors in Corporate Tax, International Tax, M&A Tax, Transfer Pricing, Contentious Taxing e Indirect Tax
- Grant Thornton, an Audit, Business Consultancy, Technology and Innovation, Tax, Law, Finance and Work Assessment and Outsourcing company
- Luis Caruana & Asociados, an Audit and Financial Insurance company
- RSM, international organisation for Audit, Assurance, Tax, Law, Consultancy and Corporate Finance in more than 120 countries
- Valencian Community Audit Union, independent instiution in charge of overseeing the Valencian government (Generalitat Valenciana), its sub-organisms and local corporations
These and more have had more than 1500 students coming face to face with the work force in this gathering where companies are meant to scout and encourage the university talent by offering internships and demanding highly qualifies personnel.
From Ecuador, Daniel Castelló, Corporate Finance master degree student and Emilia Torres, Business Administration master degree student paid their visit to the Economics Forum for the first time, enthralled by the “current market’s offers and connection with large corporations attending” aiming to “start lines of communication and elation with companies of our area” as they stated.
A group of Valencian second-years of International Business degree wanted to check the work offers they could find in the future. “We’re taking the third year in foreign countries thanks to the Erasmus program, but we’ll need to know the companies’ demands once we’re back” said Diego, Jorge, Lucas, Carlos and Ismael who are already sorting out among areas such as consultancy or international corporations, or even furthering their studies with a master degree.
Rocío, Vega, Celia and Laura are four first-years of the Business Administration degree in English and have been awed by “the great diversity of companies” in the forum’s hall, with which they have interacted to learn the possible careers to choose in a not so far future.
2024-2025 academic year Forums
Universitat de València Employment Forums seek to promote quality employment and provide a unique opportunity for students, graduates and companies to get in touch.
Companies may come across with high profiles while showcasing themselves as a talent-seeking company, relating to those committed with society’s development.
Students and graduates will have an actual taste of their work area, gain vital information for their decision-making and have a direct contact with future employers.
That’s exactly the reason behind Universitat de València’s organising the event along with the office of the Vice-Principal of Continuous Education, Educational Transformation and Employment, using UVocupació, specialised forums that will become eight expos with the participation of 17 faculties and centres from the Blasco Ibáñez, Tarongers and Burjassot-Paterna campuses.
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