Career advisor

Career advisor - who is it and how can it help you?

A career advisor is an experienced psychologist, business trainer, HR practitioner with extensive experience in recruitment and selection, training courses, and staff development. This is a person that will help you find your place on the labour market and flexibly change your job as well as can support you in choosing the right educational and professional path according to your expectations, potential, and talents.

Career advisor assists you in:

learn about your potential and talents as well as possible development areas

plan wisely your educational and professional development

prepare a professional CV and covering letter

prepare for a job interview with a potential employer

CV consulting

As part of our career counseling services, we have launched a remote consultation service for our students and graduates to review their application documents (CVs and cover letters).

This feature is available after logging in for students and graduates of the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw (provided that less than a year has passed since they defended their thesis at the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw).

If you are interested in professional advice in this area, send us your documents in an editable format (Word) so that our advisor can add their comments. After a maximum of three days, you will receive feedback and comments on how to improve your resume to make it as effective as possible on the job market!

Meeting our career advisor

Are you unsure what career path to take? Do you have doubts concerning positions to apply for or would you like to change your job but you do not know what to choose? Meet our career advisor of the Career and Alumni Office at the Faculty of Management, the University of Warsaw (FoM UW), who will help you to identify your potential, opportunities, and chances in terms of the demands of the modern labour market.

During online consulting sessions with our advisor you will receive career recommendations, your career goal will be set, and you will learn about the most effective ways to achieve it.

Career advisor of the Career and Alumni Office FoM UW will help you to:

• identify your strengths, skills, and professional achievements;
• prepare for a job interview;
• prepare application documents (CVs and covering letters);
• find a dream job in the competitive labour market.

We invite you to individual online meetings with a career advisor from the Career and Alumni Office at the University of Warsaw.

Competency tests

More and more often, employers want to assess candidates using special psychometric and competency tests. These tests help to evaluate whether a candidate is suitable for a given position – not only in terms of personality and temperament, but also intelligence and cognitive abilities, such as memory and attention.

During the recruitment process, you may encounter personality and intelligence tests, as well as tests examining cognitive abilities, and also at work. The Career and Alumni Office of the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw recommends taking two tests, available after logging in, for students of the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw:

Insightful Profiler™ – Professional Personality Profiling

This test is a comprehensive tool for professional personality profiling. It provides reliable information that is useful both in supporting professional development and career management of employees, as well as in the context of professional selection of job candidates. It is based on the five-factor model (popularly known as the “Big Five”).

Test duration: Approximately 20 minutes (the questionnaire consists of 121 statements).

Profi Competence Test (pCT)

This test is used to assess selected “soft” professional skills in people in specialist or managerial positions, or those aspiring to such positions.

The following skills are assessed: development orientation, stress management, planning and organizing, leadership.

Test duration: Approximately 20 minutes (The test consists of 20 questions).