{"id":8240,"date":"2015-03-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.btc.si\/2015\/03\/young-graduates-seeking-first-employment-to-brush-up-on-their-entrepreneurial-skills-with-btc-campus-for-third-consecutive-year\/"},"modified":"2015-03-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T23:00:00","slug":"young-graduates-seeking-first-employment-to-brush-up-on-their-entrepreneurial-skills-with-btc-campus-for-third-consecutive-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razvoj.btc.si\/en\/young-graduates-seeking-first-employment-to-brush-up-on-their-entrepreneurial-skills-with-btc-campus-for-third-consecutive-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Young graduates seeking first employment to brush up on their entrepreneurial skills with BTC Campus for third consecutive year"},"content":{"rendered":"

The programme offers young people of up to 30 years of age
\nadditional knowledge and training of their business skills, and improves
\ntheir chances of employment. Partners in the project are the BTC
\nCompany, the Employment Service of Slovenia and the Centre of Business
\nExcellence of the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Economics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The aim of the programme is to help individuals enter the world of
\nbusiness and creativity, improve their professional skills and
\nstrengthen their confidence when seeking employment or encourage them to
\nrealize their own business ideas by networking and offering advice as
\nwell as practical knowledge in the field of business. <\/p>\n

With help from the Employment Service of Slovenia, 30 graduates, who
\nhave completed different higher education programmes and are now looking
\nfor their first job or want to start their own business, have been
\nselected. The programme consists of 12 modules and lasts three months.
\nLectures and workshops organized by lecturers of Ljubljana’s Faculty of
\nEconomics will take place three hours a week. During this time, the
\nparticipants will gain basic business knowledge and skills, such as
\nplanning, accounting, communicating and marketing. The programme also
\nfocuses on networking and will introduce the participants to different
\ninstitutions, such as development centres, business incubators and
\nstart-ups.<\/p>\n

“Knowledge and cooperation are key values of our faculty, and a
\nproject such as BTC Campus successfully links them together while also
\nrepresenting an entry point into the actual world of business. It
\npresents graduates and students with an easier path toward their first
\nemployment, as well as a familiarization with the demands of and changes
\nin commerce and industry, which require them to be highly knowledgeable
\nand competent. Similar projects are undertaken by our faculty,
\nencouraging young people to make use of the knowledge they have gathered
\nas well as being an informal means to attain new knowledge. With these
\nprojects, I have noticed a significant change: the graduates manage to
\nalter their mindsets and be capable of proactive cooperation in the face
\nof the negative consequences of high unemployment figures,” said the dean of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Ljubljana, prof. dr. Metka Tekav\u010di\u010d<\/strong> in her keynote address. <\/p>\n

Damjan Kralj, MA, management board member and marketing director of the BTC Company<\/strong>,
\nin his motivating speech marking the beginning of this year’s project,
\nsaid that the goal of all project partners was to inspire young people
\nand lend them a helping hand in times when the economy does not look
\nkindly upon them: “We cannot ignore the Employment Service’s figures,
\nwhich claim that about 30,000 people of up to 30 years of age face
\nunemployment. These figures underline the importance of the third
\nconsecutive BTC Campus, which signifies a stepping stone on the career
\npaths of these young graduates. It also benefits society at large, since
\nit is precisely the advancement of educated young people with an
\nentrepreneurial spirit and good networking skills that leads to
\ncooperation and the ability to face future challenges. In the past two
\nyears we could already bear witness to quite a few success stories. For
\nexample, following the past two Campuses, at least half of the
\nparticipants gained new employment opportunities, the majority of them
\nstarted to develop their own business projects,” he added.<\/p>\n

 “The Employment Service of Slovenia is aware that we can solve
\nunemployment issues only by making connections and cooperating with each
\nother. The decision to take an active part in the BTC Campus project
\nwas therefore an easy one. There is plenty of potential for creativity
\namong the registered unemployed, which must not be overlooked. We must
\nuse different measures and activities to facilitate their speedy
\nemployment. I believe that the central advantage of BTC Campus lies in
\nthe fact that the activities are based on knowledge transfer,
\nexperiential learning, and project achievements, which makes for tight
\nconnections among the participants as well as the lecturers. But most
\nimportantly, these unemployed young people learn to trust themselves and
\nrealize that no dream is impossible, that it is possible to reach for
\ntheir dreams, with some willpower and support from others. The data only
\nconfirm that: in the past two years, more than 45 unemployed young
\npeople found employment or self-employment with the aid of knowledge and
\nskills, as well as networking, gained as part of this project. And new
\nprojects open up new employment opportunities,” says Mavricija Bati\u010d, General Director of the Employment Service of Slovenia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

 “The mission of the Centre of Business Excellence of the Faculty of
\nEconomics is to connect knowledge and thereby create and encourage
\ndevelopment within the Slovenian economy. The project BTC Campus is
\nproof of the successful cooperation between various institutions and the
\nlabour market. Together we have created an entrepreneurial ecosystem
\nand facilitated the employment of young people, many of whom chose to
\nstart their own businesses. Entwining youth and knowledge, this unique
\nproject opens up new opportunities and fresh ideas for companies as
\nwell. It is our goal and our wish to support the BTC Company in its
\nendeavour and see the seeds of the first Campuses come to fruition in
\nother companies as well, so that Slovenia will see a vigorous Campus
\nmovement,” states the Centre of Business Excellence of the Faculty of
\nEconomics.
\nThe future of economic development lies in sustainability,
\nwhich is why cooperation with stakeholders is an inextricable part of
\nthe BTC Company’s business operations. As part of one of its key
\nprojects, Mission: Green, the company organizes a variety of activities
\nand touches upon topical social issues. Programmes such as the BTC
\nCampus are organized to benefit future generations and lead the company
\ntoward realizing its vision of a society open to dialogue. <\/p>\n

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Additional Information<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maja Oven, Director of the Market Communication and Public Relations Sector<\/p>\n