Career and Placement Services

Our Mission
We create opportunities for interaction and fulfilment between the demand and supply sides of the graduate labour market, designed to enhance mobility between education and the world of work.

Our target population
Students/graduates and Businesses/employing organisations

Services and activities provided
Advisory services for students/graduates and businesses/employing organisations
Career plan, recruitment advice and information:
    • via a range of services, activities and initiatives offered and information on how these can be accessed;
    • current opportunities, recruitment incentives, calls for tenders, competitive calls, regional and national employability programmes;
    • registration and use of the AlmaLaurea databank.

AlmaLaurea: the university databank
A University of Palermo service bringing together graduates seeking work and organisations offering work.

    • Employers can publish job and internship offers, access CVs and get in touch with potential candidates directly.
    • Graduates can create and update their CVs, access job and internship offers and submit applications (once registered).

Recruiting Day and Career Day
Events which enable students and graduates to interact in person with HR and Recruiting Managers of participating employers. The events provide the opportunity to attend employers’ presentations, ask questions, submit your CV and undergo individual interviews.

Higher Work-Study Apprenticeship
(promotion and support provided)
A type of paid contract, of negotiable duration, designed to enable both university study and employment at the same time.
This gives employers the opportunity to invest in the professional development and growth of university-level resources within the context of their own business, in line with their specific business requirements and development plans, at lower cost and with fiscal incentives.
The apprenticeship gives students/graduates the opportunity to combine work and HE study: to be employed in a business (public or private sector) and to develop professionally at the same time as undertaking a related university degree course or research programme.

Partnerships and affiliations (Third Mission)
In the context of the university’s role as an anchor institution in society, Career and Placement Services has developed and is committed to developing partnership agreements and memoranda of understanding with the principal Employment organisations, Professional Bodies and Associations, with the aim of stimulating regional development with stakeholders. The objective of these collaborative partnerships s is to create synergy in the generation and circulation of validated work opportunities within the regional.

Career and Placement Services in numbers (January December 2019)

5381 Employers registered on the AlmaLaurea portal with 1100 job offers
7742 CVs consulted by employers
35 Recruiting Days organised with individual employers
2 University Career Days (one of which was focussed on social sciences and humanities graduates) with 80 employers involved
1 Regional Career Day with 22 employers participating

Career and Placement Services: Contacts

Pro-VC for Careers and Placement activity:
Professor Ornella Giambalvo (ornella.giambalvo@unipa.it)

Head of Department:
Dr. Barbara Corleo (091.23865508 - barbara.corleo@unipa.it)

Staff:
Dr Angelo Lupo (091.23890799 - angelo.lupo@unipa.it)
Dr Rosita Bono (091.23865528 - rosa.bono@unipa.it)
Dr Corrado Tiralongo (091.23865533 - corrado.tiralongo@unipa.it)

Location: viale delle Scienze - Edificio 2 (II floor) room/stanza 14
Website: www.unipa.it -> Laureati -> Placement
Email: placement@unipa.it
Opening Hours: Monday - Wednesday - Friday (9.00 - 13.00)