ABOUT CAREER CENTER

The Career Center was established with the intention of establishing an effective and efficient link between the businesses and academic communities in order to facilitate and boost employment rates amongst young Saudis in the local labor market. The key role of this center is to align the needs of the employers with those of the academic community and assist employers in opening career doors for young graduates. The center also promotes the importance of gaining extra knowledge, skills, and work experience which are being offered to students by providing them part time jobs, cooperative training in various private companies, and volunteering for various activities. It also promotes extra-curricular activities and workshops. Along with the unlimited access to information, students are also provided counseling by a group of professionals enabling them to choose the right career options and help in resolving issues or specific problems that students might face during this phase. Additionally, we now have the Alumni Association’s Career Center, in which a connection is developed with the alumni for the establishment for presenting future options, which is critical to the success of any alumni relations program.

• Students assistance in obtaining cooperative training, through communication with the companies. It also seeks recruiting university students looking for jobs in the private sector companies, through our relationship with executives of human resources.
• Function as a link between the students, trainees or job seekers and private sector companies that have vacant posts.
• Establishment of a database for the university graduates from all faculties.
• Provide training portfolios commensurate with the needs of the labor market.
• Provide indicative programs for trainees and those who are on the verge of graduation.
• To provide information about available jobs in the labor market for university students and to help them identify professional desires so that they can choose their future posts commensurate with their major. A brochure will be issued including the center services provided to students. To get the biggest marketing advantage "in coordination with the Department of Public Relations and marketing" through attention paid to the graduates, which helps attract a large number of new students.

Training and guidance in the period of pre-graduation:

• Interested in cooperation with the students and the subject supervisor starting from enrolling (Coop Training) until the completion of the training period, providing performance evaluation reports from the companies, in which students are doing their coop training, in coordination with the Center.
• The center then looks for companies that are commensurate with their specialties to recruit graduates. In addition, guide them through the preparation of the subject final report, and then hands over students a model for how to academically conduct that report, providing all the information and consulting students need in determining their academic careers. "In coordination with the academic supervisor".