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  • ITMO University Graduates Develop a Service for Career Guidance in IT

    Profimap is an online service for career guidance in the field of IT. Among its features are tests, analysis of soft skills, recommendations on specializations and educational institutions, as well as career advice. The service was created by ITMO University students Dmitry Pokidov and Veronika Petrukhina. Now there are six people on their team, including Nail Khabibulin, also an ITMO University graduate. Read on to learn about the idea behind Profimap and how it works.

    23.04.2020

  • ITMO.DigitalCareerWeek’20 Goes Online

    On April 6-10, 2020 ITMO University’s Career Center hosted the ITMO.DigitalCareerWeek’20 online event. Over the course of the week, the organizers hosted six webinars and two Q&A sessions with 14 companies and raffled off several personal career consultations by top-tier professionals. Read on to learn more about how the new online format changed the event. 

    20.04.2020

  • ITMO University Starts Competition for Over 470 Academic Vacancies

    Starting from March 20, ITMO is holding a competitive selection of candidates for academic positions at the university. ITMO.NEWS spoke to Irina Panina, head of Educational Programs Implementation Office at the Department of Academic Affairs, to find out how to participate in the competition. 

    06.04.2020

  • Everything You Wanted to Know About ITMO’s Master’s Programs in Biotechnology

    According to Rosstat, chemical biotechnology is among the disciplines in which 72 to 96% of students build careers in fields relevant to their major. It’s no accident that this discipline is in demand. According to the UN’s annual report, around 820 million people globally don’t have access to a sufficient amount of food supply. And the number keeps growing year after year. At the same time, there’s an increase in the number of people suffering from excessive weight and obesity. That led food manufacturers all over the world to start considering ways to produce more food of better quality while also cutting down on production costs. Trained professionals were needed in this field – and that was when the biotechnologist profession came into being. Now, you can become one by studying at ITMO. Over 50% of employers in the field of food manufacturing in Russia are ready to offer new staff members a starting salary of 50,000 rubles. Learn more about biotechnologists and their positions in this ITMO.NEWS article. 

    23.03.2020

  • How to Choose a Profession in the Digital World

    We live in the age of total digitalization. More and more people work in the digital field. Every day new professions appear, and familiar specializations are changing and transforming at the speed of light. In order to keep up, everyone should study constantly, follow the trends, and gain new skills. Maksim Popov, a representative of the LeaderCup project, has given an open lecture on choosing a profession in the digital field, and we have summarized it for you.

    20.03.2020

  • Product Manager vs. Project Manager: What’s in the Name?

    ITMO University’s Entrepreneurship Center hosted a lecture on product management by Alexey Grunsky, product director at the Gen.ru online store, former head of The Black Cat web studio and interactive agency Skylab. The expert spoke about the daily grind of product managers, their responsibilities, and what makes them different from project managers. ITMO.NEWS put down the keynotes.

    13.03.2020

  • ITMO University PhD student Karina Pats on Her Job in the Field of Bioinformatics in Kazakhstan and her Career in Academia

    Karina Pats graduated from ITMO University’s Applied Computer Science program last year, and at the moment is getting a PhD degree. She also works on a big project at Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan) under the grant for research of nuclear receptor action mechanisms. Karina shared with ITMO.NEWS why research of these mechanisms can potentially help development of a new medicine, how bioinformatics work in Kazakhstan, and why she decided to pursue a career in academia instead of the industry.

    12.03.2020

  • How to Start a Career in Radiophysics: Results of an Open Workshop at ITMO University

    Recently, ITMO University has hosted a large-scale workshop event with lectures by Russian and international scientists, as well as a roundtable on young specialists’ careers in the field of antenna technology and applied radiophysics. Participation was open for students of St. Petersburg universities. Also attending were industry representatives, who readily shared their forecasts of the industry’s future and explained how to start a career in the field. Read more in this article by ITMO.NEWS.

    11.03.2020

  • Digital Transformation of Higher Education and New Opportunities for IT Specialists

    These days, leading Russian universities tend to digitize and develop their digital environments, so IT specialists are increasingly in demand. Recently, ITMO University has taken a new step towards its digital transformation, and it brings new challenges. ITMO.NEWS met with Gennadii Gromov, Mikhail Shlei and Denis Dorokhin, leading specialists at the Department for Information Systems of Research and Academic Activity, to find out what is expected from an IT specialist nowadays and how working as a programmer at a university differs from that in other fields.

    05.03.2020

  • Education Helps You Understand Things, Science Communication – to Explain Them: An Interview with ITMO University Graduate Daniil Shirokov

    Daniil Shirokov is one of the first graduates of the Science Communication program at ITMO University. By the time he started his Master’s studies, he already had a Bachelor’s degree in biophysics. Now, Daniil works as a science communicator at one of the biggest private clinics in St. Petersburg while writing a thesis on philosophy. ITMO.NEWS contacted him and found out what it’s like to switch from hard science to humanities, why a medical center would need a science communicator and how he studies the way scientific knowledge changes at modern universities.

    25.02.2020