Show the employer that you are developing: indicate your additional education in the profile on "My Circle"

From our regular research, we see that despite the fact that 85% of specialists working in IT have higher education, 90% are engaged in self-education in the course of their professional activities, and 65% take additional vocational education courses. We see that one higher education in IT is not enough today, and the demand for continuous retraining and advanced training is extremely high.

Evaluating potential candidates, 50% of employers are interested in both higher and additional education of their future employees. In 10-15% of cases, information about a candidate's education significantly influences the decision to hire him. Higher education specialized for IT in 50% of cases helps job seekers with employment and in 25% of cases in career advancement, non-core for IT higher education - in 35% and 20% of cases, respectively, additional vocational education - in 20% and 15%.

Seeing all these figures, we decided to devote education to "My circle" Special attention. Now on our career service you can supplement your resume with information about all the courses you have taken. We have also introduced profiles of educational institutions, where you can learn both about the specialization of the institution and get acquainted with the statistics of their graduates.

In the resume of a specialist on My Circle, a new block “Additional Education” has appeared. In it, you can indicate the institution where you studied, the name of the educational program or course, the period of study, acquired or upgraded skills, attach a photo of the certificate.

On the search in the database of candidates and in the responses to the vacancy, the specialist's card is expanded with information about the institutions in which additional vocational education was received. In the search, you can display all professionals who have such education.

Educational institutions, both higher and additional education, have their own profile, where you can learn about the specialization of the institution, as well as get acquainted with the statistics of graduates:

• The number of graduates among service users;
• What were the first companies they worked for;
• What companies did they work for at all;
• What is their current specialization and skills;
• What cities do they live in now?

For example, here MSTU profile N.E. Bauman и Geekbrains profile.

When designing a new block of additional education, we simultaneously improved the design of the block with work experience, bringing it to the same style:

• The positions occupied and the time spent in them began to be more clearly displayed;
• Now it is clearly visible if a specialist has grown his career within the company, moving from position to position;
• Brief information about employers has been added: the company's specialization, its city and size are immediately visible.

So now the specialist resume contains the following information:

• Professional skills;
• Experience in companies;
• Participation in professional communities;
• Higher education;
• Additional vocational training.

We hope that today's improvement will help employers and job seekers to better connect with each other and do great things together.

If you are a professional who cares about your career, we invite you complete your resume on "My Circle" with information about the courses taken.

If you are involved in the management of an additional education school, we would like to talk with you: we have a lot of ideas about cooperation that is useful for the entire IT market. For example, right now we are interested in the opportunity to show and recommend courses from your school on My Circle. If you are also interested, be sure to write to us at [email protected].

Source: habr.com