Career Service events calendar

The Career Service periodically organises recruiting and work orientation events for students and recent graduates. 

Career Days

  Università Aperta PhD - IX edition - Thursday 20 March 2025

Università Aperta PhD is the career day dedicated to researchers and PhD students of the University of Padua, held every year in March. Organised and promoted by the Career Service of the University of Padua, this initiative represents an important opportunity for companies to meet with young researchers in order to introduce them to their own reality and their professional needs related to innovation and development (R&D sector), as well as to help them in a future job placement within the company.

The next edition of Università Aperta PhD is held online on Zoom on Thursday 20 March 2025.

Since this is a career day aimed at a high-profile educational target, the Career Service schedules interviews with companies in the form of online speed interviews. The interview schedule is communicated a few days before the event.

Candidates can register online from www.universitaperta-unipd.it.
Registration for candidates open from Monday 3 to Thursday 13 March 2025.

For more information (candidates): placement@unipd.it
For more information (companies): aziende.careerservice@unipd.it

Career day Warm up

Optimize Your Profile, Maximize Your Opportunities 

Prior to the Università Aperta PhD event on 20 March 2025, the Career Service organises an online meeting scheduled for Thursday 6 March, from 10:00 to 11:00.

The meeting consists of two simultaneous parallel sessions, one held in Italian and one held in English.

During this online session, we explore the unique aspects of a career day and provide you with strategies to make the most of this opportunity. You can learn how to enhance your profile in a short time and how to present yourself concisely yet effectively, optimizing your interactions with recruiters from participating companies. Our goal is to prepare you to transform these brief interactions into potential career opportunities.

To participate in the online meeting, registration is required using the following link.

For further information, please contact: placement@unipd.it

  Business Game for Data Scientist – Thursday 10 April 2025

Business game based on the ability to analyse and create a forecasting model on the basis of a real data set, followed by individual interviews with participating companies.

The competition is individual and open to all university students and graduates able to work as data scientists. Each candidate must provide the hardware (computer, tablet, etc.) and software he or she considers necessary to carry out the analyses. During the competition one may use any programming language or software considered appropriate and suitable. The responsibility for the ownership rights and licences required to use any software lies with the individual participant.

For the first three classified in the business game, who have held interviews with the companies present, there are prizes in the form of Amazon vouchers.

Business Game - Warm up

In the days leading up to the event, the Career Service organizes a preparation meeting called Optimize Your Profile, Maximize Your Opportunities

During this session, we provide you with strategies to make the most of this opportunity. You can learn how to enhance your profile in a short time and how to present yourself concisely yet effectively, optimizing your interactions with recruiters from participating companies. Our goal is to prepare you to transform these brief interactions into potential career opportunities.

For further information, please contact: placement@unipd.it

 

Agenda of the day

9:00-13:00: Business game
The prediction ability of the candidates' models is based on an external database and is therefore an objective (and quantitative) assessment: based on these results, the scoring and ranking of the candidates is established.

14:30-18:00: interviews
Participants in the business game hold online interviews with participating companies.

To participate, it is necessary to register on www.universitaperta-unipd.it, attaching a pdf CV and compulsorily booking interviews with at least 3 companies in order to have a chance of winning prizes.

Registration for candidates is open from Friday 21 March to Friday 4 April 2025.

All CVs are made available to companies.

  Università Aperta - XX edition - Thursday 22 May 2025

Università Aperta is an opportunity for students and graduates of the University of Padua to meet with companies: an open dialogue between the university world and the professional world.

The next edition of Università Aperta is held on Thursday 22 May 2025.

The event is hosted at the Fiera di Padova.

Interviews with companies take place in the form of one-to-one speed interviews with free access. Each candidate can go independently to the stands of the companies of interest to leave his CV and have a brief interview with the company representatives present.

The event is free and open access. Online registration on the event website www.universitaperta-unipd.it is optional and not binding.

Career day Warm up

Optimize Your Profile, Maximize Your Opportunities

Prior to the Università Aperta event on Thursday 22 May 2025, the Career Service organizes an online meeting scheduled for Wednesday 14 May, from 10:00 to 11:00.

The meeting consists of two simultaneous parallel sessions, one held in Italian and one held in English.

During this online session, we explore the unique aspects of a career day and provide you with strategies to make the most of this opportunity. You can learn how to enhance your profile in a short time and how to present yourself concisely yet effectively, optimizing your interactions with recruiters from participating companies. Our goal is to prepare you to transform these brief interactions into potential career opportunities. 

For further information, please contact: placement@unipd.it


Workshops - May 2025
In the days leading up to the career day there are some days of workshops presenting some of the participating companies.
Each workshop lasts 45 minutes and takes place on Zoom.

  Università Aperta Agripolis - IX edition - 9 October 2025

On Thursday 9 October 2025, there is the usual meeting between local companies and students and graduates of the School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine of the University of Padua.

The event is hosted at the University of Padua's Agripolis Campus in Legnaro - Padua.

The initiative represents an important opportunity for companies to meet with young people from study courses in the agricultural and food sectors to get to know their companies and their training and professional needs, also through internships and apprenticeships that facilitate their job placement.

Candidates and companies can register from www.universitaperta-unipd.it.

Career day Warm up

Optimize Your Profile, Maximize Your Opportunities
To best prepare for the career day, in the days leading up to the event Career Service organizes a preparation meeting Optimize Your Profile, Maximize Your Opportunities

During this session, we explore the unique aspects of a career day and provide you with strategies to make the most of this opportunity. You can learn how to enhance your profile in a short time and how to present yourself concisely yet effectively, optimizing your interactions with recruiters from participating companies. Our goal is to prepare you to transform these brief interactions into potential career opportunities.

For further information, please contact: placement@unipd.it

 

Workshops - October 2025
In the days leading up to the career day there are four days of workshops presenting some of the participating companies.
Each workshop lasts 45 minutes and takes place on Zoom.

  Università Aperta IES - XV edition - Thursday 6 November 2025

On Thursday 6 November 2025 the Career Service organizes Università Aperta IES, a career day dedicated to students and graduates of the Schools of Engineering, Economics and Sciences of the University of Padova.

The event is hosted at the Fiera di Padova.

Interviews with companies take place in the form of one-to-one speed interviews with free access. Each candidate can go independently to the stands of the companies of interest to leave his CV and have a brief interview with the company representatives present.

The initiative represents an important opportunity for companies to meet young students and recent graduates from the engineering, economic and scientific fields, and for candidates an exclusive opportunity to have a look at the world of work according to their training and professional needs, facilitating job placement through internships or apprenticeships.

Workshops - November 2025
In the days leading up to the career day there are some days of workshops presenting some of the participating companies.
Each workshop lasts 45 minutes and takes place on Zoom.

March 2025

  BPER Banca - presentation - March 13, 2025

BPER Banca is a great Italian bank, empathetic, sustainable and evolved, made up of people who share the same mission: to support and connect people, businesses and communities to help them develop their ideas, protect them and shape a better future. For all and for all.

BPER Banca is aimed at Master’s degree students and graduates from the following areas of interest: Economics, Engineering and Management, Mathematical Engineering, Informatics and Statistics.

The meeting takes place online on Zoom onThursday 13 March 2025 at 9:30 and follows this schedule:

  • Company overview
  • Description of open positions
  • Q&A session

To attend the meeting you need to register by Wednesday 12 March 2025.

The link to the online meeting will be sent to the mail address used to register for the event.

Please, take note that the presentation is held in Italian.

  Areatecnica - company presentation: March 11, 2025

Areatecnica is an engineering company that operates in the field of design and technical consultancy in important and continuously developing areas such as:

  • construction and infrastructure;
  • energy from renewable sources and technological installations;
  • safety engineering and fire safety engineering FSE;
  • as well as providing its services in specialised consulting and design activities.

Areatecnica is aimed at students and graduates of Engineering.

The meeting takes place at Aula Magna Lepschy at the Department of Information Engineering (DEI) on Tuesday 11 March 2025 from 14:00 and follows this schedule:
∘ Company overview
∘ Description of open positions
∘ Q&A session

To attend the meeting you need to register by Monday 10 March 2025 at the following link: www.unipd.it/presentazioneat

Please, take note that the presentation is held in Italian.

  Arpav - company presentation: March 4, 2025

Arpavpursues two closely related objectives:

  • protection, through environmental controls that protect the health of the population and the safety of the territory;
  • prevention, through research, training, information and environmental education.

Arpav achieves its objectives by using technical and scientific skills that become its distinguishing feature, differentiate it from other administrative bodies and identify its “mission.”

Arpav is aimed at students and recent graduates of all courses in the Department of Industrial Systems Technology and Management (DTG).

The meeting is held in Sala 8 (third floor) of the Department of Technology and Management of Industrial Systems (DTG) - Vicenza, on Tuesday March 4 2025 at 9:30 and is structured as follows:
∘ Company overview
∘ Q&A

To participate you need to register by Monday March 3 2025 at the following link: www.unipd.it/presentazionearpav

Career Service

via Martiri della Libertà, 2
35137 Padova
tel. 049.8273075
placement@unipd.it

Public opening hours and Phone calls taken as follows:
Mon-Fri 10.00-13.00, Tuesdays and Thursdays also 15.00-16.30

The counter to the public receives only by appointment