The student is the main focus of IPCA, which accompanies students and alumni throughout their academic and professional careers.
Talent and Careers is a kind of “student’s guide” that accompanies you from the moment you enter our academy until you make the transition to the labour market in a guided and sustainable way.
Talent and Careers is part of the intervention area of the Employment, Entrepreneurship and Business Liaison Office (G3E).
The Careers Service is a concerted, complementary and continuous response that begins at the moment of academic integration into IPCA, but develops throughout the student’s/alumnus’s/alumna’s academic and professional career.
Its purpose is to support, in a guided and sustained way, the transition, entry, participation, access and monitoring of the labour market through professional and psychosocial interventions.
Vocational guidance;
(Re)knowledge of the market;
Promotion of extracurricular training programmes;
Development of personal and social skills;
Mentoring programme;
Monitoring of graduates’ careers to encourage participatory decision making;
Reskilling, upskilling and lifelong learning programmes and training;
Promotion of active employment and micro-credentials.
Promoting self-awareness, vocational interests and roles, promoting well-being and mental health.
IPCA has a job portal – IPCA CAREER CENTER – created in partnership with JobTeaser – a leading European company in career guidance and management and talent recruitment – with the aim of increasing the employability potential of our students and alumni and strengthening the collaborative relationship between the business/industry and IPCA.
This is another guidance tool designed for the IPCA community.
Here you’ll find everything you need to know about employability and career management. Register now for the IPCA CAREER CENTRE
IPCA anticipates the challenges of the business world and launches the IPCA Management Challenge.
The challenge is on and the next edition is waiting for you!
It’s a real business simulation in which the different teams have to define strategies and establish interactions between the different areas of the company (Human Resources, Finance, Production and Marketing & Sales).
Each team receives information about the simulation, the manual and the history of the company to be managed.
After analysing these elements, they have to define a strategic action plan for the future (the next 5 quarters, corresponding to 5 decisions in the simulation).
The 5 decisions will be made online over 5 weeks (1 decision per week).
At this stage of transition to the labour market, there is a network of mentors who provide students with career guidance and advice, helping them to make informed decisions about their career goals and develop a plan to achieve them.
A comprehensive programme that goes further to help students expand their professional networks by connecting them with better mentors who can offer guidance and advice on the area they want to work in, as well as other professionals in the same field.
A network of Business Career Mentors will soon be available to match the needs of the market with the talent that IPCA helps to develop.
The IPCA Job Fair is the institutional moment to bring together job seekers and employers with the aim of increasing the employability potential of our students and alumni and strengthening the relationship of cooperation between the business/industry and IPCA.
It aims to create a complementary space for interaction, exposing the community to the realities of the labour market, while at the same time providing companies with a more in-depth view of the skills acquired by students on IPCA’s various study cycles and courses.
In addition to promoting employability, this event is also a time for training in various areas related to employability and entrepreneurship.
GrowUp | IPCA Job Fair or Grow Your Skills Up, Job and Training Fair in Barcelos was born with the same aim of creating conditions that enhance the employability and skills of students and alumni.
