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06.05.2024
Recently, the distribution of final year students took place at Vitebsk State Technological University. 216 graduates receiving education at the expense of the republican budget received assignments to their first jobs.
“Since 2018, the university has ensured a 100% distribution of graduates,” said the first vice-rector of VSTU Valery Zhiznevsky. – Traditionally, we provide personnel to organizations in all regions of Belarus. At the same time, we have normatively defined priorities. First of all, personnel is provided to organizations that are customers of personnel, with which VSTU has concluded an agreement on the training of specialists. These are most often large enterprises with which the university has been cooperating for a long time and they are interesting to us as bases for student practice. For example, all graduates of the specialty “Mechanical Engineering Technology” are assigned to such enterprises. At the same time, even basic organizations line up in accordance with the date of concluding an agreement with a university: the one who concluded it earlier receives a graduate first.
Personnel customers highly value the level of training at VSTU.
“The head of the regional directorate for the Vitebsk region of OJSC Belagroprombank, Oleg Zhingel, traditionally participates in career guidance events,” noted the chief specialist of this bank, Natalya Gruzdeva. – As a result, the employer has the opportunity to meet future specialists, evaluate their level of theoretical training and knowledge of special programs. And in the future, invite the students you like to subsequent internships, and graduates to work. The best graduates have the opportunity to get their first job in one of the country's leading banks and demonstrate their knowledge in practice. This strategy brings good results. Students become valuable and irreplaceable employees.
Approximately 60% of graduates remain to work in the Vitebsk region. Among them is Ivan Tkachenko, who is graduating from the Faculty of Information Technologies and Robotics.
“I was assigned to the Display design bureau,” said the student. “It was my initiative to get there.” I was in this organization for regular practice and pre-graduation. I liked the working conditions, good salary and the opportunity to stay in my hometown. I want to gain a foothold in my first job and grow as a specialist.

A graduate of the Faculty of Design, Vladislava Vinogradova (pictured above), also took care of her placement on her own in advance, deciding to stay in Vitebsk.
“A year before the placement, I found a vacancy as a computer graphics artist-designer at Ego-Art ODO,” says the girl. – I’ve been working there for a year now. I really like the friendly team, where they will always support and help. This organization uses modern technologies, including computer graphics. And your home university gives you the opportunity to try yourself in different creative directions. While receiving higher education, you gradually understand what you like and in what area you want to develop.

Seven VSTU graduates remain to work at their home university.
“I received an assignment to the research department of VSTU,” says Anna Ivanova, a graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Business Management (pictured above). – This distribution was proposed by my scientific supervisor, Vice-Rector for Scientific Affairs of our university Elena Vankevich. I'm attracted to science. I plan to enroll in a master’s program and improve my educational skills. In addition, I will still have the opportunity for creative fulfillment - I am a member of the university choreographic group VIP. This distribution, by and large, will allow me to continue to live the same normal life as when I was a student. I considered other options, but staying at the university was the best idea.

VSTU provides specialists to all other regions of Belarus in approximately equal proportions. A graduate of the Faculty of Production Technologies, Alesya Zhorokh (pictured above), was assigned to the Eliz enterprise in Dzerzhinsk, Minsk region.
“I wanted to be closer to Minsk, but not to the capital itself, because it’s noisy there, the pace of life is too fast,” the girl shared. – I like living in a small town, like my native Kobrin. At the same time, I want to join the life of the capital. There will be an opportunity to regularly travel to Minsk. I hope that I will gain interesting professional experience, and that my first job will be my start for moving up the career ladder.