Career and employment counseling office, 1:1 mock interview office, job cafe, etc.
17 full-time consultants help students with employment through career exploration and employment consulting
‘VR interview machine’ that applies contents per company and job... Practice in a realistic interview room environment
[September 17, 2019]
YU (Sur Gil-soo) opened the YU Career Employment Center. The purpose of this center is to help students set their career path early on and improve their employment capacities.
The YU Career Employment Center that opened on the 17th spans across a total floor space of 583m2 on the first and second floors of the YU Information Processing Center building and is comprised of the career consulting office, employment consulting office, 1:1 mock interview room and job cafe. There are a total of 17 full-time consultants at the career and employment consulting offices and they provide counsel for the students’ aptitude test and career exploration, as well as improving employment capacities. The employment consulting office and the job cafe on the first and second floors has an employment study space with a total of 123 seats where students can come to study on their own or in group studies.
<Students receiving counseling from expert consultants at the YU Career Employment Center>
In particular, high-tech VR (Virtual Reality) interview devices were introduced for the first time among universities in the Daegu and Gyeongbuk areas with the opening of the YU Career Employment Center. Two units were installed in the 1:1 mock interview room of the YU Career Employment Center and four in the University Job Center to help improve student competence for interviews.
<A student takes part in a virtual interview using the VR interview device at the YU Career Employment Center mock interview room>
The VR interview devices that were newly installed have various contents by company and job position. By wearing the VR device, selecting companies and entering their history, students can practice taking interviews in a situation similar to actual interview environments such as the interview environment and interviewer. VR interview devices can be used by individual students without having to make separate preparations and is therefore expected to be very useful for students who will soon be searching for jobs.
Woo Yeon-joo (23, YU Department of Korean Language and Literature, senior), who visited the YU Career Employment Center as soon as it opened on the 17th, said, “Students preparing for employment do not have many opportunities to practice in similar situations as that of actual interviews. I think that by using the VR interview devices before actual interviews at companies, students will have a higher chance to perform better at the actual interview.” She added, “I would like to use the VR interview device at the Career Employment Center later when I have an actual job interview.”
<Students receiving counseling from expert consultants at the YU Career Employment Center>
YU Employment Office Director Lee Seung-woo (Director of the University Job Center) said, “We have constructed an educational environment where students can receive assistance from experts and high-tech devices to explore their individual aptitudes, set their career paths, and strengthen their employment capacities,” while adding, “We will not spare any support to create an employment infrastructure where students can receive support from YU from their admission to graduation and even after joining the professional world.”
