Job and career guidance
University education and earning a degree are but the first step, albeit a decisive one, toward the world of work and professions. The University provides a range of tools to help current students and graduates align their expectations with labor market needs, enabling them to deliberately plan their educational and career paths.
The University supports individuals in defining their professional goals, providing the necessary tools to develop an effective action plan.
Transversal skills
Transversal skills or soft skills give added value to the professional profile of the graduate in the company and are the decisive factor in achieving better performance.
A tool that we make available to students and graduates to understand the characteristics and trends of the labor market, thus giving them the opportunity to orient themselves in the choices for the desired professional future.
Seminars and workshops
The Career Service organizes seminars and orientation workshops to support students and recent graduates in the transition to the world of work.
Mentor&Me Program
Together with the Alumni Association they manage a mentoring syllabus that aims to support professionals with our student body.
The syllabus consists of a path aimed at students graduating by September 2025 and recent graduates and includes:
1) Training focused on transversal skills;
2) Individual mentorship with managers and experts;
3) Group coaching for personal and professional development;
4) Professional seminars with senior managers.
At the end of the syllabus, participants will have the opportunity to have individual interviews with partner companies for internship positions.
Deadline: 24 March 2025.
Start: March 31, 2025.
Referral links: https://italy.generation.org/generation4universities/
Joule is an Eni initiative whose mission is to support the growth of sustainable companies, having climate change and decarbonization as its compass.
Human Knowledge is Joule's training experience aimed at aspiring entrepreneurs who want to grow and make Italy grow in a sustainable way, providing tools, knowledge, skills and keys to understanding how to do business.
The Open syllabus of Human Knowledge Program offers the opportunity to students, graduates and researchers, interested in the theme of doing sustainable business, to participate in an experience of innovative growth through the deepening of ten macro themes and to train their entrepreneurial skills through challenges and concrete opportunities for creating networks.
For further information
To register for the syllabus
The University of Padova participates in the project funded by the European Union in the framework of KA2 - Strategic Partnerships entitled: QAREER - Quality Assurance of Career Services in Higher Education coordinated by Spiru Haret University in Bucharest (Romania) and together with an international partnership. The aim of the project is to identify and define the quality standards of university Career Services in Europe through the drafting of a manual of Guidelines and its dissemination on the websites of European universities to raise awareness of the central role played by university Career Services in bridging the gap between the university world and the world of work. And in raising attention to the quality and efficiency of the services provided to undergraduates and graduates who are preparing to look for a job opportunity.
All project information and documentation can be found on the qareer.ro website .
Career service office
Career Guidance Sector
via Martiri della Libertà 2
35137, Padova
tel. 049.8273075
Telephone office hours
Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday, also 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Public office hours
Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.