The situation has changed again recently, and more students are willing to gain experience of part-time job before graduation, according to the powers of career planning.

19-year-old David, 3 years of study IBSU (Int. Black Sea University) worked for 4 months as assistant photographer Regina Jiji model agency OMAC. As he said, make financial picture has nothing to do with his professional studies, but it was to make enough money to meet their needs, earn an average of about 50 gel per day.

“Getting a job on the Georgian market is tough, especially for undergrads which haven’t attained enough experience or qualifications. But those who are skillful and try their best can get one,” David stated.

Students of Georgia get a job is primarily through the career development offices at their universities, where companies offer vacancies or by direct application of jobs listed online professional networks as mycareer.ge, jobs.ge.

“Students who are currently studying at CU have jobs, either part-time or full time, the latter are mainly 4th year students who have more free time and a more flexible schedule that allows them to even work full time. In general 90% of CU graduates are employed,” said Khatia Jikia, head of the career development office at CU.

“There are 2,000 students studying at Caucasus University this year. We currently have 10 vacancies available at this point. The average starting salary for CU 2009-2010 year graduates was 600-800 GEL, and 1,000-1,400 GEL for the graduates from previous years,” said Jikia.

Int Black Sea University (with 950 students currently studying) and Iliauni is also actively employ students based on their evaluations of study / degrees therefore cease to apply for vacancies published by different companies operating in Georgia. In September this year IBSU staff of 17 students, six of them full-time jobs and 11 part-time. Currently there are 15 vacancies in the database. Most shipping companies are foreign applications in particular Turkish firms which have to be fluent in English and Turkish-speaking candidates, but there are also Georgian companies. Iliauni A, the raw number of MBA, BA, professional and doctoral students amounts to 8.759 students in October 2010.

“We employ our students in companies outside as well as inside the university. The most active employers are DMT Group, ProService, VTB , Bank of Georgia , other banks, Newspaper Students leader, also schools and all sorts of other institutions. In addition there are about 25-30 graduates working in the university administration now,” said Gabunia.

“Throughout 2010 there were 292 vacancies announced whilst now there are 34 vacancies available for students at Iliauni. The most active period was May, June and September, when over 40 students got employed each month,” said Gabunia.