ITB Career Center Held ITB Integrated Career Days 2017
By Gilang Audi Pahlevi
Editor Gilang Audi Pahlevi
BANDUNG, itb.ac.id – Strong relation between Industrial community and academic community should be maintained. That is because higher education graduates are expected to be the driver of employment in various sectors and employment is expected to give latest information regarding the dynamic in related sectors. Taking that into account, ITB Career Center which is under the management of Student Affairs of ITB (LK ITB) held ITB Integrated Career Days 2017. Taking place at Aula Barat and Aula Timur, ITB Integrated Career Days was held from Friday to Sunday (07-09/04/2017). With 36 companies participating in the event, there were around 2000 job vacancies for the attending applicants.
Through this event that lasted for 3 days, participating companies could conduct promotion, presentation, exhibition and recruitment test. During those activities, the companies could disseminate lots of information about the company profile, career path, and working culture in the company. Regarding the recruitment test, ITB Career Center provided a special venue at Gedung Kuliah Umum Timur (GKU Timur) for companies that conducted written test or job interview.
Moreover, during the event, ITB Career Center also provided career counseling services to help jobseekers to find the job that match their interest and abilities. Visitors could consult about their career with psychologist from ITB Career Center. In the ITB Integrated Career Days 2017, there were 36 national and multinational companies engaged in engineering, science, social, economy, and arts and humanities. Some companies participating in ITB Integrated Career Days 2017 were PT. PLN (Persero), PT. Bank Negara Indonesia (Persero) Tbk., PT. Bank Tabungan Negara (Persero), Tbk., PT. Global Digital Niaga, PT. Bank Mandiri (Persero), Tbk., PT Paragon Technology and Innovation, Xtremax Teknologi Indonesia, PT. Indoporlen (Calderys Indonesia), PT. Gameloft Indonesia, Samsung R&D Indonesia, PT. Elnusa Petrofin, Astra International, Tbk., PT. Antam (Persero), PT. Wijaya Karya (Persero), Tbk., and Uber Indonesia.
Unlike the last ITB Integrated Career Days on April 2016, the event was without entrepreneurial exhibition of student who received Student Entrepreneurial Program (PMW) ITB. This year, the exhibition will be held on the next ITB Integrated Career Days 2017 next October.
ITB Integrated Career Days was held not only for students and alumni of ITB but also graduates of other universities. Member of ITB Career Center could enter for free, while the non-member could get the ticket for Rp 30.000,00
