Hellenic American College held its 2nd Annual Career and Internships Day on May 31, 2021. This year’s event, which was held online due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, hosted over 15 Greek and multinational companies in fields from language education and translation to IT, telecommunications, aviation, and the gaming industry. As University President Leonidas Phoebus Koskos noted in his opening remarks, ‘’Career relevance has been an integral component of the University’s mission. One of the ways we do this, is by offering our students opportunities beyond the classroom or lab’’. Mr. Koskos continued by underlining the importance and outcomes of University - industry collaborations and how these can bring important benefits to students, from training opportunities to expanded professional networks.
The event was designed to enable students and graduates to network with successful companies and exchange ideas and information about prospective employment or future collaborations. In their sessions, representatives from participating companies briefed attendants on career prospects in their sector in Greece and elsewhere. They also encouraged students to seek out internships to gain work experience and improve their soft skills and invited them to forward their resumes and communicate about employment opportunities at their organizations.
Among the keynote speakers at the event were Kiki Avgoustatou, HR Manager and Business Excellence at Randstad Hellas and Maria Papazekou, Employee Relations and Talent Acquisitions, also at Randstad, who shared with the audience insights into trends in the job market, and the skills employers are looking for in the people they hire. Other keynote speakers were Dimitris Nikolakopoulos, Chief Digital Officer from Attica Media Group, and Konstantinos Androutsos, Performance Marketing Strategist & Analyst from ROIX.
Several sessions featured mock interviews, where students and alumni/ae could gain experience of how a professional business interview is conducted and pinpoint potential weaknesses so that they could improve them and increase the possibility of a successful future recruitment.
For more information about the Career and Internships Day and future events, contact the Career Development Office at 2103680992 or
Our appreciation to the companies that participated in the event:
- Aims International Hellas
- Attica Media Group
- Bewise
- Endeavour Greece
- Evalion SHL Greece & Cyprus
- Goldair Handling
- Hellas EAP
- Interpretit
- Intertranslations
- Intralot
- ITML
- Katsianos Language School
- Manetaki Language School
- Nokia
- Psichogios Publications
- ROIX
- Roots Wellness Center
- Team Experiential Learning
