Supporting Work and Development of Employment and Career Centers in Universities by Enlisting Volunteers

Abstract

The article describes the mechanism of adaptation support to work and development of employment and career centers in universities by enlisting volunteers and reveals key components of this mechanism. It can be labour markets of young people; requirements of business entities to personnel competences; the process of employment and career in universities; basic goals, objectives and principles of setting-up and developing such centers; analysis of advantages and drawbacks of their work, building and developing the administration system; use of volunteers’ work; academic and methodological tools; organizational and economic features and trends in center development; appraisal of such centers work and development; programs of development. All these mechanisms of adaptation support of work and development of employment and career centers in universities were studied and analyzed in view of volunteers’ role in these centers’ work. It gives an opportunity to provide comparable development of volunteer movement and net apprenticeship, to use different methods of interaction with labour market participants depending of factors of surroundings impact and to meet social request on specialists of certain professions with regard to goals of state policy of population employment.

Keywords

• employment and career centers
• career planning
• universities
• graduates
• adaptation mechanisms
• volunteer work