Career services for international students
Are you an international student at the University of Genoa?
University of Genoa offers to all the international students some career guidance services. These want to support you to plan a professional career and to search for job opportunities.
What are you searching for? Explore the categories below in order to find the type of information or support you actually need.
Career Guidance
Individual meetings for Career counseling / CV-Check
University staff is available for individual meetings (online or in presence), to support you to search for job opportunities, to plan a professional career and in other topics connected to the career guidance.
During the individual meeting it is possibile to have a review of a CV/cover letter, to verify whether these documents have been filled correctly and if they are in line with the student's professional project. Moreover, the service can offer advices in order to improve your CV and your cover letter.
A CV is a really important document, such as a jobseeker's business card beacause it influences the recruiter's impression of a candidate. Some web tools, like Canva (to browse different model from Europass) or the European dictionary of skills and competences DISCO (to research specific skill-related terms) can be really useful to improve your CV.
How to request an individual meeting:
- Visit the website piazza studenti
- Click on the voice "Placement - Career Services for international students"
- Login with university username & password (unigepass)
- Click on " Iscrivimi" (“subscribe me”) and then choose the date and the time for the meeting
- Click on "Prenota" (“make a reservation”)
if you don't find a date in which you would be avalaible, please write to sportellolavoro@unige.it
Webinar
Below you can find the first dates for 2023:
| How to organize a job search | CV & cover letter models, job orientation services, advices and instruments to create your own professional project | 2nd March 2023 from 10.00 to 12.00 13th April 2023 from 16.00 to 18.00 24th October 2023 from 14.30 to 16.30 |
How to participate: Within the day before the webinar, you have to subscribe to it, following the instructions:
- Visit the website piazza studenti
- Click on the voice "Placement - Career Services for international students"
- Login with university username & password (unigepass)
- Click on " Iscrivimi" (“subscribe me”) and then select the chosen laboratory and date
- Click on "Prenota" (“make a reservation”)
Internship or job opportunities
| Plaftorm name | Vacancies you can find | Description |
| Amalaurea UniGe matching platform | post-graduation internships job offers | You can consult the opportunities published by the differnt companies on AlmaLaurea UniGe Platform, or modify your personal CV which can be seen by registered companies. In order to send an application to answer to an offer, you have to login using the Almalaurea credentials. You can register to AlmaLaurea and create your CV in their database for free, following the instruction in the registration page. |
| UniGe "Tirocini e tesi" | internships for students thesis offers | "Tirocini e tesi" is a UniGe platform, through which it is possible to explore the offers published by companies, or to consult the list of companies that have a preliminary agreement with the university to host interns. |
| Eures Job mobility | job offers in EU countries | EURES is a European cooperation network of employment services, designed to facilitate the free movement of workers in EU. A a local level, it is possibile to contact the Eures consultants who are working in employment centres in Regione Liguria. These professionals have the task of providing information and advices to job seekers. |
| Liguria "Formazione e lavoro" | job offers in Liguria | "Formazione e Lavoro" is the official regional platform that collects opportunities from public Employment centres and private Job agencies in Liguria. The vacancies are not dedicated specifically to the university students or to the high level profiles: however, this instrument can help people to search for a temporary job or a part-time job while they are studying or looking for a job position in line with their studies. |
For those looking for internships, it is possibile to ask for information or support writing to the staff in charge of activating internships. Before activating a internship, it will be also necessary to complete the online course "general training on health and safety at work", which is available also in english language.
For those who are looking for part-time positions during their studies, we also point out that the University of Genoa announces, annually, a call for internal collaborators, specifically called the "150h collaborators" and the "Tutors."
The news can be found at this link: https://www.studenti.unige.it/attivita/
We highlight that an intermediate (or a fluent) level of Italian, is often a requirement for the majority of these collaborations.
Career Days
The University staff organizes career days and events to help match companies with candidates. These events can be useful for students and recent graduates to learn more about companies in the area and to active job searches. Scheduled events, as well as an archive of past events, can be viewed at this webpage.
Upskilling
University of Genova offers online courses and opportunities that can be of value to job seekers:
- language skills: The University Language Center (CLAT) can offer online courses, information or support for language learning. We highlight that an intermediate level of Italian is often a requirement for the internships or job vacancies in Italy, for this reason, these optional courses can be an opportunity to significantly increase one's employability.
- Eduopen: UniGe and other Universities from Italy offer free online courses on Eduopen Platform. Some of them are in English language, such as "Advanced English: Scientific writing" course that can be a valuable asset for PhD applicants.
- IT skills: UniGe is an accredited Test Center for the delivery of ECDL/ICDL ( International Certification of Digital Literacy) certifications. More information on procedures, costs and exams:can be found at https://cedia.unige.it/ecdl
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