Career Services Report 2009/2010

Mindaugas Tijusas, BA'10, found his path at PwC

Academic Year 2009/2010 Evaluation

Table of Content

1. Student support:

• Individual consultations: 1/3 of all students (more than double the numbers from 2008/2009);
• Workshops: 18 workshops (1/3 offered more than once) of various durations (from 3-hour to 4-day long);
• Online Support: online tutorials; visited on average 200 times/week Podcasts (Alumni Interviews, Professionals Tell, Internship How-To-s, Miscellaneous) each watched, minimum, by 150 people; 1/3 of all students are “followers” [tech.] of our Facebook page; more than 400 job/internship or event advertisements posted on our internal jobportal; collaboration with student newspaper Pulse of the World for 1 article per issue on a professional development topic (plus promotion of our services). New student website launched in August 2010.

2. Employer Relations:

Organization presentations and recruitment on campus by: Altran, Voith AG,Roland Berger Consulting, Nielsen BASES, KAEFER Isoliertechnik, CTS Eventim, Werder Bremen, Teach First, Kunsthalle Bremen, InWent, Weserkurier, OHB-System AG, BIOLOG Life Science, Bock Bio Science GmbH, SeSaM-Biotech GmbH and others.

3. Internships:

• Class distribution: more than 1/3 of undergraduate students participated in an internship Summer 2010 (including 1/3 of all 1st-year students);
• Location: 48% in Germany; 9% in the USA or UK; 5% in Nepal; 38% distributed almost exclusively throughout European countries;
• Funding: 51% compensated either in the form of salary or travel expenses; 10% supported by Jacobs University (loan program, grant program or ERASMUS program);
• Hosts: Röhlig, Red Bull, Siemens AG Deutschland, Adidas Group, Continental AG, UNICEF, Lufthansa Technik AG, Kühne + Nagel AG & Co. KG, Airbus Operations GmbH, and many others.

4. Graduating Class 2010:

• Institutions: Röhlig, Microsoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Adidas Group, DHL, London School of Economics, Ludwig Maximilian University, Hertie School of Governance, Oxford University, Rotterdam School of Management, New York University, Stanford University, TU München, Universita Bocconi, Cambridge University, Brown University, ETH Zürich, MIT, and others;
• Preparation for a career in the business world: 3.5 on a 1 to 5 scale (5 being extremely confident);
• Most deterministic factor for their future career: 26% “family”, 18% “classmates”, 17% “faculty”, 15% “internship”, and 7% “alumni”, 17% no answer.

5. Career Services Perspectives:

Our strategy is focused on providing organizations the platform to brand themselves as employers by working closely with them for a tailor-made approach. By inviting organization representatives to give workshops or trainings on a topic that the organization has expertise in, we:

• outsource the training and provide an opportunity for the organization to get to know Jacobs students and
• give students the chance to learn about the topic and network with the company representatives.

With such a strategy, we had no difficulty identifying potential partners for the current and coming semester (e.g. Voith AG, Nielsen BASES, KAEFER Isoliertechnik, and CTS Eventim). We will evaluate the outcome of these activities in our annual report for Academic Year 2010/2011.

6. Goals for 2010/2011:

• Structure the professional development offers around entrepreneurship, leadership and management education; integrate professional development in the curriculum of the programs;
• Work closer with advanced students and deepen the content of topics (e.g. networking, salary negotiation, business planning) while outsourcing basic topics (e.g. CV writing) to online tutorials;
• Reach out to business partners and especially to alumni for their participation in our educational efforts;
• Focus our online strategy on knowledge transfer between alumni and students;
• Maintain outstanding customer relationship; focus on internship hosts and proactively seek feedback from institutions;
• Enter into formal partnerships and establish a placement program.

7. Conclusion:

The past academic year marked the beginning of a much more rigorous and focused approach to professional development, thanks in no small extend to the support of our colleagues from Resource Development, Executive Education and Science and Technology Transfer. Career Services finds itself with a growth potential!

With best regards from the Jacobs campus,

Predrag Tapavicki and Anne Rehmet
Career Services
phone: +49 421 200-4225
e-mail: p.tapavicki@jacobs-university.de, a.rehmet@jacobs-university.de