Careers team receives global award

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The University of Liverpool has been awarded the “University Career Service Best Practice” title at the 2019 Global University Career Development Conference (GUCDC) conference.

The conference, which took place in Qing Dao, a major city in China’s Shandong Province, was attended by Xiaobei Wu, International Employer Engagement Officer at the Management School.  Xiaobei received the award on behalf of the School’s careers team.     

The award is part of the conference’s “China Career Development Awards” and winners are decided based on whether they are a preferred university for enterprises to recruit overseas, as well as the strength of their influence in Chinese enterprises.  Eight universities out of 1300 within the Global University China Career Union (GUCCU) database have won this award.

The conference host GUCCU, commented “The career service team of your university has a strong sense of mission to students ' employment, and actively engaged in employment training for your students. Faculty cooperate with tacit understanding, progress efficiently, and students ' employment rate is stable at a higher level.

Your university has the world's leading professionalism, strong discipline, and good reputation in the recruitment industry in China, recognized widely by Chinese enterprises. At the same time, the graduates of your university are also widely praised by enterprises, which brings strong impetus for the development of enterprises.”

Xiaobei Wu, said “It is a great honour to receive this recognition of our team’s hard work in supporting our Chinese students. The positive feedback from both students and the industry side also proved that our practice is effective, and we shall carry on delivering high quality service to our students.”

Bei also delivered the key-note speech “Connect the Dots, Prepare Our Students for Future Work” to international student career service colleagues from over 40 universities cross the world and received very positive feedback on the conference.