Vladimir Putin: “90% of UrFU Graduates Are Employed, It Is a High Figure”

16:05, July 11, 2019

The president supported the idea of scaling the UrFU career event

This week the President of Russia Vladimir Putin stated that 90% of Ural Federal University graduates are employed within the first year after graduation. This is a high figure, as is another statistic number: 80% of them finding a job in their degree field.

The topic of career events was brought up during Vladimir Putin’s meeting with UrFU students on Tuesday. The head of the UrFU Student Union Oibek Partov came forward with a proposal to hold an All-Russian “Career Night” and expressed the Union’s willingness to organize the event.

According to Mr. Partov, hundreds of thousands Russian students will be able to meet employers, find internships, attend workshops and trainings.

‘Today gaining practical skills is important not only to seniors, but also to first and second-year students,’ Oibek says. ‘The sooner you attend the “Career Night”, the bigger are your chances of becoming a top manager of a major national or global company.’

The president also highlighted that the event helps set a solid foundation for further development and professional growth, and it is worth paying attention to.

Tomorrow it was announced that the university’s project “Career Night” would receive the support of the national youth project contest held by Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (“Rosmolodezh”). The project won the grant amounting to 1 million rubles in the track “Your Business” on July 10. Opportunities for creating businesses will be featured in a separate section of the career event along with section devoted to employment opportunities

The next “Career Night” will be held in November of 2019. In 2018, the career event gathered more than 10 000 students and graduates of Ural universities.

Vladimir Putin paid a visit to Ural Federal University on July 9. The president held a meeting with students and attended the exhibition of innovative projects developed by UrFU startuppers. The issues of import phase out, development of new technologies and the organization of all-Russian “Career Night” and Universiade 2023 and several other topics were discussed during the meeting.

Before visiting Ural Federal University, the President attended the International Industrial Trade Fair INNOPROM and took part in the Global Manufacturing & Industrialization Summit (GMIS).