Tomsk university offered students a new format of job search

TOMSK, Apr 1 – RIA Tomsk. Tomsk State University (TSU) and leading companies of the region conducted IT school in which students of three Tomsk universities participated. Novice programmers trained in the IT companies and developed various software within a month. Those who coped with the task received the offer on employment. More details – in material of RIA Tomsk.

Earlier it was reported that for the first time TSU conducted IT school in 2017. Its main idea is to gather representatives of the companies, skilled IT experts and students for the solution of specific production tasks. This association helps youth to understand in what direction it is necessary to develop, and to the companies – to pick up new talented workers.

IT school instead of an interview

Applications for participation in IT school - 2018 were submitted by more than 100 people. These are students of TSU, and of Tomsk Polytechnic University, and of Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics. Business was presented by four companies – SibEDGE, Elesy, Rubius, ENBISYS.

Organizers selected 23 from 100 applications, the start of IT school was reached by 19 people. "Thus, the best of the best were selected", – the head of the Department of Practice and Employment of State University Alexander Petelin comments.

According to him, participants are students of elder years or undergraduates, future programmers. At the first stage of IT school they discussed the offered projects with the organizers. Then the training in the companies began, and experts declared at once that the most active participants will be able to get into staff – a unique opportunity for students and graduates without experience.

Petelin explains: the traditional interview at employment gives fast understanding of how the graduate can realize himself whether is guided in a subject, whether there is an experience. And the IT school allows to understand how quickly the university graduate adapts to working process.

"Children can not have experience, but it is good to master a technology and to show himself to the employer in a month. The curator sees that this graduate will be a good expert, he should be employed. Therefore the format of IT school is very interesting to all participants of process", – Petelin says.

Order from large company

Alexander Ivanov, the second-year student of TSU, had a training in SibEDGE. This company is considered one of the leaders of the Tomsk IT market. It specializes in custom development – creation of information systems for large and medium business.

"Sseveral participants and I charged to develop the software for booking of meeting rooms in office of SibEDGE. Ours software had to display the current status of the meeting room and its schedule on the tablet which would hang directly near the meeting room. Up to this point the booking was kept on stickers near the room", – the student tells.

The students team analysed the market of already existing decisions and found out that Microsoft Exchange (the platform where electronic calendars of staff of the company are) already has a part of necessary functionality on booking of general resources in the organization.

"Using this platform, it is possible to reserve meeting rooms by means of the electronic calendar. We needed only to customize this system and to develop the application which would hang directly near the meeting room and displayed its data", – the programmer explains.

As a result the team developed a web application which shows the current status of the room and future events and allows to reserve an event from the tablet quickly.

The head of the HR department of SibEDGE Valery Sergeyev tells that the prototype of the necessary software was expected from children, but the team created the finished software product.

"They surpassed our expectations, tried well, worked together well. And actually already now we have the ready decision which we will test at ourselves in the company in the next month. <…> We will cooperate with all children. We will accept someone to the state now, and someone – after the graduation from the university", – Sergeyev says.

He emphasizes that students come to IT school with the good basic knowledge gained at the university: "It allowed us to speak one language and to understand each other. <…> We selected people who easily communicate, are rather active, can show an initiative and bring it to some result".

According to the organizers, TSU will organize the next IT school in a year. As well as in previous years, it will be supported by the leading representatives of IT community and business.