YSU Alumni and Career Centre was founded on June 1, 2006, according to YSU Academic Council decision. The main objectives of the Centre are to improve students' and graduates' competitiveness in labour market, to establish university-graduate relations, to develop the cooperation between them, to solve the set up problems.

Presently the Centre is in the stage of formation and establishment. Complicated problems, which the Centre has put forward, require new and special approaches.

The Centre offers cooperation with those organizations and individuals that are interested in it.

In the period of transition to market relations students' employment problem became one of the key problems. In contrast to the Soviet Union period, when in conditions of planned economy student's employment problem was solved according to the centralized method, nowadays students have to find a job relying on their own efforts, which is rather difficult because of objective and subjective reasons. Unfortunately quite often students graduating from higher educational institutions are occupied in the area, which is not suitable for their higher education. In such confusing conditions of the difficult system of labour market the problem of young specialists' guidance, improvement of students' competitiveness in labour market becomes the main goal of YSU Career Centre.



The new website of the centre career.ysu.am will provide you with the information on the Centre's activities, including employment, trainings, etc.


In many countries of the world the great part of leading universities' financial means is being created due to students' support and university-graduate relations. During its 85-year way Alma Mater has given a galaxy of more than 9000 highly qualified specialists. It is obvious that in conditions of such a great potential, a new method of working process organization, new approaches and possibilities, formation of qualitative new relations of university-graduate have again become a key problem.

Objectives and Framework of YSU Career Centre

The two main target-groups of the Centre are students and graduates.
To reach the set up goals the Centre plans to cooperate with the following groups:

• Academic-pedagogical staff
  
• Different in-University substructures
  
• Private and state organizations, employers and entrepreneurs
  
• International organizations, NGOs, and other organizations and individuals that are interested in cooperation process

Main objectives of YSU Career Centre are

• To systematize activities directed to YSU students' and graduates' employment problems
  
• To organize YSU students' work experience parallel to education process
  
• To establish close relations between YSU students, graduates and potential employers
  
• To carry out research among YSU students and graduates, to sum up information on both local and international labour market development trends
  
• To provide consultations on YSU students' and graduates' employment and other problems, to organize trainings, seminars and measures, to spread corresponding information
  
• To establish constant relations and cooperation between graduates and the University, as well as to involve the graduates into YSU problems solving process
  
• To establish constant relations between those YSU graduates who have made a great contribution to the spheres of science, art, culture, social life, etc.