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We invite you to participate in IT Dev Academy

We invite you to Xplicity’s annual Dev Academy,  which will take place on August 13 rd  – 14 th at Xpilicity’s office (Chemijos 19A, Kaunas). Some lectures will be available live-online for everyone.

In Dev Academy, you will get valuable experience in a real development company environment with a professional team. Academy program consists of theory and practice, workshops, and teambuilding.

Take your chance to become one of Summer Academy graduates, dive in IT world! Registration open via email: karolina@xplicity.com, more info: +370 612 16555.

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USEFUL: online platforms related to career

While we spend time at home, we have a great opportunity to focus more on searching, reflecting, and advancing in a variety of career fields. The best thing is that we have the opportunity to learn at a distance, and the information on the internet is more than enough, you just have to be able to choose it. So, we share several platforms where you can find useful, free content that is related to career topics.

  • edX – is an online course platform with more than 25,000 high-quality courses from 140 universities and institutions around the world. You will receive a certificate upon completion of the courses.
  • Skillshare – is an online learning community for people to share and learn from other educational videos. The site offers both paid and free courses that cover many areas such as web development, social media, design, photography and more.
  • What do people do – is a travel magazine about the creative life and unconventional work. It creatively shares practical advice on how to adapt your dreams and hobbies to your purposeful career path. On this platform, you will find useful links, inspiring chats, podcasts , and more.
  • Coursera – is a platform where you can find hundreds of free courses on various topics. You not only will gain a lot of useful professional knowledge using this platform, but also receive a certificate upon successful completion of the courses.
  • Udemy – is a website for students from all over the world, where more than 57,000 professionals share their experiences and advice in more than 65 different languages. Here you will also find the latest news and research on the current labor market and the competencies required in it.

Get inspiration and new knowledge, and if you have any questions related to job search, contact our Career Centre for a free consultation by e-mail: cv@vdu.lt

OPPORTUNITIES: NATO Young Professionals Programme

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is launching the call for applications for the NATO-wide Young Professionals Programme (YPP) today. The period for applications is 29 April to 31 May. 

The aim of the YPP is to attract and develop highly talented professionals, who are interested in accelerating their career through entry-level positions at NATO. Successful candidates will have the possibility to work in various areas in different NATO bodies and experience a range of activities across the Alliance.

Find more information in YPP dedicated website

The vacancies you can access through the NATO Talent Acquisition platform

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact the YPP Administration through mailbox.yyp@hq.nato.int.

Additional Competition for Erasmus+ Traineeship

An additional competition is open for Erasmus+ student or recent graduate traineeship grants. Application deadline is the 21th of June, 2020.

The placement period is from 2 to 6 months. Recent graduate traineeship must end – in a year after graduation.

Selection

All VMU fulltime degree students who have not used more than 10 months of their Erasmus mobility (study / traineeship) period are eligible for the Erasmus grant.

Selection documents

For student traineeship (traineeship during student’s year of studies)

Documents must be submitted online

For recent graduate traineeship (application must be submitted during the last year of studies)

The priority in the selection is given to

  • students whom traineeship is an obligatory part of their study programme;
  • students who have never been Erasmus traineeship students before.

Selection criteria

  • student’s motivation;
  • good knowledge of the language which will be used during the traineeship;
  • student’s work, study, traineeship, participation in the international / academic projects, social activities experience in Lithuania and abroad;
  • conformability between the chosen traineeship and student’s study programme;
  • study results (first year MA students should attach transcript of records of their BA/MA degree to the application form).

The competition results will be sent to every participant via e-mail on the 26th of June, 2020.

Note, those students who are graduating studies on July 2020 and wish to take part in Erasmus+ recent graduate traineeship, should participate in this competition.

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Relevant platforms about work in Lithuania for foreign students

During the #COVID19 outbreak, the Lithuanian Red Cross Kaunas Center is delivering consultations online. The staff of the Center provides foreigners with relevant information on employment, education, taxes, social guarantees, housing, health services, and other topics. Contact information:

We also invite you to join the platform created by Work in Lithuania team. In this platform, you can leave your e-mail address and receive the latest job offers. A page for international students will be launched in May, which will contain all information related to employability in Lithuania, as well as internships and junior positions.

Career Centre services during the quarantine

VMU Career Centre continues to provide services to VMU students and graduates and invites them to consult on various career issues remotely. Write an e-mail cv@vdu.lt and the career counselor will contact you and agree on the most appropriate consultation format.

During the quarantine period, students are invited to use the services of the “Virtual CV clinic”. If you have prepared your curriculum vitae (CV) and want to consult or hear the consultant’s opinion, then send it to cv@vdu.lt. Career counselors will review, provide comments and advice on how to improve to make your CV attractive and meet all the requirements!

Apply Now: Erasmus+ Traineeship Competition

The third competition is open for Erasmus+ student or recent graduate traineeship grants. Application deadline is the 12th of April, 2020.

The placement period is from 2 to 6 months. Recent graduate traineeship must end – in a year after graduation.

Selection

All VMU fulltime degree students who have not used more than 10 months of their Erasmus mobility (study / traineeship) period are eligible for the Erasmus grant.

Selection documents

For student traineeship (traineeship during student’s year of studies)

Documents must be submitted online

For recent graduate traineeship (application must be submitted during the last year of studies)

The priority in the selection is given to

  • students whom traineeship is an obligatory part of their study programme;
  • students who have never been Erasmus traineeship students before.

Selection criteria

  • student’s motivation;
  • good knowledge of the language which will be used during the traineeship;
  • student’s work, study, traineeship, participation in the international / academic projects, social activities experience in Lithuania and abroad;
  • conformability between the chosen traineeship and student’s study programme;
  • study results (first year MA students should attach transcript of records of their BA/MA degree to the application form).

The competition results will be sent to every participant via e-mail on the 20th of April, 2020.

More information

VMU International Cooperation Department wants to invites all students to participate in the webinar: „Erasmus Skills: discovering the benefits of studying in the EU“ where they will get to know more about the benefits of Erasmus exchange.

Registration
Webinar

Extended Competition for Erasmus+ studies

If you want to gain even more international study experience, improve your foreign language skills, become a VMU Ambassador and a part of even bigger international community, participate in the competition and fill in the online application form on https://epasirasymas.vdu.lt -> Outgoing-Application for Erasmus Study Exchange (EU countries) until March 29 (23:59). For Music Academy students competition is over.

Eligible applicants are full time students. Students with disabilities or special needs have an opportunity to receive additional funding.

The results of competition will be announced on April 10 on VMU website. Each selected student will also be informed personally by e-mail.

Additional information about Erasmus+ studies

Competition

OPPORTUNITIES: become a student ambassador for EU institutions

When starting their job search, young people rarely think about career at the European Union (EU) institutions. The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) aims to change this by recalling the program of student ambassadors to the EU institutions. EU Careers Student Ambassadors programme has existed for ten years now.

Selection for a new EU Careers Student Ambassadors programme begins on 20th of February and  will continue until 20th of March. We sat down with the EPSO colleagues managing the project, Rita Hinek and Anne-Claire Gathoye, to learn more.

Tell us about how the programme was born?

In 2010, we conducted some research into how much university students know about career opportunities at the EU institutions. Our findings showed that they were generally not aware and were not considering this an obvious career choice.

We knew that once students left the university and entered the job market, it would be more difficult to attract them, so we saw higher education as the last stage where you could effectively spread the word. We opted for a scheme that had been run successfully in the United Kingdom by companies and international organizations for a while: the student ambassador scheme.

The idea is to pick students from universities in all the EU Member States who then promote EU career opportunities at the campuses and spread the word about what it is like to work for the EU institutions and what it takes to apply. In the 2010 – 2011 academic year, we piloted the project in 23 universities in 6 countries. Since then it grew gradually from year to year and today we currently have 171 ambassadors based at 143 universities in all the Member States.

How do you pick the ambassadors?

The process starts with a recruitment campaign at selected universities that we launch at the beginning of the calendar year (this time on 20th of February). The universities we target are nominated by the Member States. Students then can apply, and either EPSO or national authorities select the ones who will become the ambassadors for the given academic year.

Before their one-year mandate starts in October, we invite them for a two-day conference and training session to Brussels. At this event, they learn about our selection procedures, the working conditions at the institutions as well as about life in Brussels and Luxembourg. They also meet and talk to previous ambassadors and officials from different institutions, which is always a huge success.

Once they have learnt the ropes, what do they do?

They go back to their universities and start making publicity for the EU as an employer. As it is a voluntary activity, it is mostly up to them to come up with creative and effective ways of spreading the word. These can vary from country to country, and may include giving presentations, setting up mailing lists to share information about EU Careers events and upcoming competitions, posting flyers at the campus, liaising with university publications, organizing or attending career fairs, giving one-to-one information sessions, invite EU staff for a speeches or updating dedicated social media channels.

For the digital natives, social media is very important, and the ease with which they post videos and pictures is something we at the Commission cannot easily match. Universities have official EU Careers accounts on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, access to which is passed on to the new ambassador at the beginning of each academic year.

They are the point of contact for students interested in EU Careers, and their main goal is to put this option on the radar of fellow students. So that even if they do not apply immediately after graduation, they may consider it later.

How about the results?

Since 2010, we have had about 1000 ambassadors in 280 universities. In the 2018-2019 academic year, ambassadors organized about 970 events with which they reached 80 000 students.

The best part of this job is when you meet colleagues who learnt about the EU via our ambassadors. For example, here at EPSO we had a trainee who had learnt about EU career opportunities thanks to the programme, and officials who used to be student ambassadors themselves.

Where can we have more information?

Please check our website and hear about the EU Careers Ambassadors’ first hand experience.

 

Competition for exchange studies at non-EU/EEA countries

Students are invited to participate in a competition for one semester exchange studies at non-EU/EEA countries with Erasmus+ or VMU Mobility scholarship.

Students have to submit completed online application form (Outgoing – Application for Bilateral and Erasmus Study Exchange) until 1st of March, 2020.

More information.