1st V2WORK training “Engagement in Employability: Building and leveraging partnerships for success”

Over 30 participants actively engaged in the first V2WORK training module for university Career Centre staff which took place from July 2nd to 4th, 2018, at Nha Trang University in Vietnam. 

The module was centred on how and why Career Centres should engage with their internal and external stakeholders, and who these could be. The specific objectives included:
•    To understand the importance of engaging with stakeholders and the tools to help do so.
•    To identify how a Career Centre can build and develop networks and relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including students, graduates, academics, higher management, employers, employment agencies and associations, business angels, policy makers etc.
•    To examine the possibilities of cooperation at national and international levels

The training was prepared and delivered by staff from the University of Alicante, University of Coimbra and the University of Sheffield. 

Once the training was completed, the first V2WORK Coordination Meeting was held, allowing for discussions on several key project activities, such as the launching of the survey for the project’s analysis on graduate employment and entrepreneurship in Vietnam or the steps needed to complete it or the importance of organising replication seminars for other career centre staff after each training, as well as initial instructions for the launch of each of the major work packages.