Career Planning Offices are among the most important offices in a university, helping students from their first steps in the respective faculty, and until the end of their studies. But are these offices functional in local faculties? Are there such structures and how informed are students about the services they offer?
Based on these questions, 3 students of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tirana have been engaged with Centre for Legal Empowerment within the “Career Planning Offices” project, a project which aims to provide information on these structures and advocate their proper functioning in local faculties.
Through a monitoring carried out in the faculties of the University of Tirana, it was found that there is no Career Planning Office in the Faculty of Law, and also a lack of informed students about these offices in other Faculties where these structures are functional.
In the framework of this finding, the working group of this project was formed, which closely monitored different models of Career Planning Offices in order to formulate an informative and advisory manual on the proper functioning and importance of “Career Planning Offices”.
The monitoring took place in the following faculties:
- Faculty of Law (FDUT)
- Faculty of Social Sciences (FSHS)
- Faculty of Natural Sciences (FSHN)
- Faculty of Foreign Languages (FGJH)
- Faculty of Economics (FEUT)
As well as in two European Universities as representatives of the educational elite outside the borders:
- “University of Edinburgh”, Edinburgh, Scotland
- “Central European University”, Vienna, Austria
At the end of the monitoring, all the collected information is reflected in the final paper, “Career Planning Offices”, which you can download by clicking above.
Further, meetings will be held with the students of the Faculty of Law, where the project will be presented to the students, informing them about the structures of the career offices, where they can find them, and what services they offer.
The manual will also be presented to the dean of the Faculty of Law where the Career Planning Office is not yet functional, with the aim of reopening this office and its proper functioning.