HONORIS CAREER CENTER, TUNISIA – Flagship for the network
The newly launched multi-institutional Honoris Career Center in Tunisia gathers the Career Centers of UNIVERSITÉ CENTRALE, IMSET, AAC, and UPSAT. It is an outstanding achievement of Honoris’ commitment to student employability.
The physical spaces, such as the new-age Career Center and the Collective Lab, work in tandem with the digital Career Center. The digital Career Center is a platform that brings together students, alumni, companies, and institutional counsellors for employability training. Honoris is able to provide an engaging 21st century learning experience by the seamless integration between digital and physical Career Centers.
The physical spaces, such as the new-age Career Center and the Collective Lab, work in tandem with the digital Career Center. The digital Career Center is a platform that brings together students, alumni, companies, and institutional counsellors for employability training. Honoris is able to provide an engaging 21st century learning experience by the seamless integration between digital and physical Career Centers.
The employability training includes 6 modules: (1) CV Workshop, (2) Successfully completing your job interview, (3) Understanding Personality types as per the Process Communication Model (PCM), (4) LinkedIn, (5) Presenting yourself in three minutes, and (6) Self-confidence.
Additional coaching is provided for CV Correction, Interview simulation, Pitching simulation, as well as How and where to start (searching for a job). Information sessions are also hosted with professionals to inform students about International placement processes. During 2021, there were 126 webinars, workshops and events which drew 80% attendance from students. Furthermore, a CV generator has been developed that automatically prepopulates with students’ information – such as contact details, certification, etc. – according to Honoris’ internal specifications. 1,000 students have made use of this CV generator, already.
JOB FAIR, TUNISIA
Job fairs are best practices across the network. In November 2021, a total of 1,600 final year students and Alumni attended the job fair hosted by UCG Group in Tunisia. Sixty stands were on exhibition, allowing attendees to network and collaborate with 8 recruitment agencies, 44 companies from various industry sectors and 9 NGOs and associations working on youth employment.
Two panel interviews took place with influential experts in different fields. The panelists reflected on the high rate of youth unemployment which is over 42% in Tunisia; however, there are over 86,000 job vacancies.
The key outcomes of the observations and views of the panelists were as follows:
- The mismatch is not between training and employment but between training and the quality of job offers in Tunisia because the economy has not been as rapid in its development as the University. Development of the business ecosystem and high value-added businesses are needed for placing significant funding mechanisms
- Female entrepreneurship is a developing trend in Tunisia which can constitute a lever for the problem of employment in Tunisia. Indeed, female capital has not been utilised enough for senior women in Business Programs.
- Specialized training and technical mastery is required, along with a culture of lifelong learning and training, ensuring technological skills are integrated for students to be successful throughout changing business needs, regardless of the trade or industry that they pursue.
- Continual up-skilling, re-skilling, and cross-skilling are important in order to remain relevant and adapt to the ever changing world of work.
- The new world of work also requires graduates to have strong leadership skills and transversal skills such as emotional and social intelligence, resilience, responsiveness, flexibility and the perfect mastery of languages.
As important as the role is of youth to be agents of change, so is the need for the Tunisian education model to be reinvented if it is to produce forward-thinking and work-ready graduates. With this in mind, 13 workshops and training sessions were facilitated, having the central theme of Career readiness.
The job fair was a resounding success and led to the signing of four job contracts for nurses in Germany, and four new partnerships for employability signed. Honoris is proud of all the partnerships and collaborations that are being built; each one presents Honoris’ students with opportunities to connect with the world of work, for which they are preparing. This is an invaluable component of modern day education.
The workshops comprised
- Recruitment in the IT sector – by the HR of HLI
- Talent first – by the regional HR Director of Draexlmaïer
- Cybersecurity and job opportunities in Tunisian and International Market by the CEO and Cyber security expert of Go Trust
- Entrepreneurship innovation for future entrepreneurs by Chaker Slaymithe Director of the Collective Lab in Tunisia
- The importance of soft skills at work – the example focused on the health sector by the HR Director of Clinique la Rose
- Why MSH International recruitments are based on soft skills over technical skills by the General Director of MSH international in Tunisia
- How to succeed in your job interview by the Director of optimal training center : recruitment and training agency
Training sessions comprised
- Making a CV video
- International mobility
- Effective communication at work
- How to dress for a recruitment interview
- Job research techniques
- Candidates defence mechanisms during recruitment interviews
JOB FAIR, MOROCCO
Mundiapolis University organized a recruitment day for the benefit of its future laureates.
The main aim of this event, initiated by the University’s Career Center, is to improve the employability of the laureates and allow students to meet the HRDs of renowned Moroccan and multinational companies