After graduation | food science and technology

Career guidance is a service that aims to guide graduating and graduate students towards the world of work, through various activities and initiatives.
The career guidance service is mainly carried out by degree course staff and the Academic and Career Guidance Unit.
Specifically: the degree course, through the department's delegate, organises and publicises meetings with representatives of the world of work (e.g. professionals, public officials, entrepreneurs, etc.) in order to illustrate to students the characteristics of individual activities and the challenges that graduates will have to face at the end of their university education.
The Academic and Career Guidance Unit organises a series of orientation interventions to accompany those who are about to finish or have already finished a university course towards the world of work, favouring the improvement of soft skills and knowledge of professional profiles and related opportunities.
The main services offered to graduating students and graduates are:
Job and stage opportunities board where all the job offers offered by companies, institutions and organisations registered in various capacities on the AlmaLaurea portal are collected;
Job opportunities;
Job day, an annual event aimed at fostering direct relations between companies and graduates of the University of Parma; seminars and meetings on how to write a CV and a cover letter, how to successfully approach a job interview (individual and group interview simulations), etc.;
orientation traineeships (or internships), reserved for university graduates within twelve months of obtaining their degree.

In addition, ER.GO. also provides various support services for recent graduates on its 'Job Orientation' page.

Career guidance delegate and job placement :

Prof. Francesca Bot

Internship and job placement - Food area

At the following link on the department website are several useful links for searching for internships and jobs in the Food area:

Meta-motors: websites specialising in automated grouping of advertisements; the fastest way to sample the labour market
Portals: Recruitment websites of specialised companies, their business is to allow companies to access their database (this means is the second most important way to get in touch with recent graduates after direct contact with universities)
Institutional portals Internship and Placement - Agribusiness area

Internship and Placement - Area agroalimentare

Career guidance delegate and job placement :

Prof. Francesca Bot

Ph.D Course in Food Science

The Doctoral (Ph.D.) Course in Food Science (Corso di Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze degli Alimenti)" is offered by the Department of Food and Drug, University of Parma. The focus of the programme is the 3-years PhD research project (setting up, planning and performing research, then writing it up and presenting it), which leads to a thesis and associated publications. The research is done under the supervision of a member of the PhD Course Board.

For more information check the webpage:
https://saf.unipr.it/en/node/3633

Link to the Call for Admission to doctoral Ph.D. course for the a.y 2024-2024:

https://saf.unipr.it/notizie/pubblicato-il-bando-lammissione-al-xl-ciclo-di-dottorato-di-ricerca-aa-2024-25

Food Technologists Professional Association

The term Food Technologist refers to the professional who studies, designs, implements, and ensures food production with the use of all the necessary technologies and processes.

For information check the website:

https://www.tecnologialimentari.it/