site.btaVeliko Tarnovo University Holds Career Days Forum

A Career Days Forum took place at Veliko Tarnovo University on Tuesday, with 15 companies from various business sectors opening their stands to present job opportunities to young people in the town.

University Rector Prof. Dimitar Dimitrov opened the forum, together with Hristiyan Petkov, Operational Director of JobTiger, who organised the forum. "For more than 20 years, we have been organizing meetings between young people and their potential employers, and the statistics show that every sixth visitor to the forum has found their career fulfillment through this format", said Petkov. He noted that nowadays he sees young people representing the companies and institutions where they had started working years ago, after meeting their employers at such a forum.

A large part of the young people who visited the forum noted that the combination of studying and working simultaneously is beneficial, especially for accumulating basic knowledge on the labour market. "Both I and other colleagues of mine study and work at the same time to cover our expenses", said Pavlin Hristov, a third-year student. He noted that he works in the restaurant industry, but attends the forum to find a job opportunity in the field of economics.

The participants of the forum include representatives of manufacturing and commercial companies, outsourcing services, foreign agencies for hiring young people for work abroad, experts from the Human Resources Development Center, which manages the Erasmus+ Programme, as well as the European Solidarity Corps. Radostina Trichkova, HR specialist at a company that deals with video surveillance and security of sites abroad, pointed out that young people are looking for well-paid work, but they are also increasingly interested in the kind of team they will work with.