The Career and Placement Office of Saint Joseph University issued an official report about students’ employment and partnership policy followed by our university with Employers. To read this report: OFFICIAL REPORT ABOUT EMPLOYABILITY

The Career and Placement Office of Saint Joseph University organized, in collaboration with the Federation of Alumni Associations, a Job Fair that occurred in April 2nd, 3rd and 11th, 2019. USJ JOB FAIR BOOKLET

Survey about the USJ Students employability

The Career and Placement Office of Saint Joseph University of Beirut achieved a survey about employment of students graduated in 2015/2016.

The number of graduate students at USJ in 2015-2016 is 2494. The Career and placement center has sent out a questionnaire related to employability through its computerized system, which accounted a total of 2494 addresses.

The replies came from 701 graduates, which corresponds to 28.11 % of the students, which is considered to be a relevant sample. They were mainly filled up totally but some only partially.

The questions and replies were distributed as follows:


As a sum up of this questionnaire:
    - 37 students declare not finding a job, 12 months after graduation, for 701 answers (5.27 %).
    - 88 did not answer this question.
    - 58 persons have decided not to work: from which 8 did not pursue their studies and 50 continued their higher education.
    - 56 persons worked as self-employed.
    - 16 persons have worked intermittently.
    - 277 persons found a full time job.
    - 6 are not able to work for reasons such as health issues…
    - Moreover, 62 persons found a job abroad but 20 returned to Lebanon.

Saint Joseph University, a leading university in Lebanon and the Middle East has developed an ever continuous and evolving strategy to enhance its student’s employability opportunities. It begins with the Career and Placement Office that carries on multiple training sessions addressed to ongoing students and Alumni and a Website that allows employers to submit job offers that can be consulted by the graduates. Further steps were taken in order to present various enterprises directly to students. Managers, CEO, or Senior recruiters were invited on campus or online to meet with students, present their company and answer to various inquiries.

Various faculties on different campuses have initiated “Get together” encounters between various employing companies and students. Those encounters differed in form such as self-promoting activities on the part of the employers, meetings, presentations, career fairs…but in content, they all aimed at providing information and networking with keen and motivated students.

The College of Engineering (Ecole Superieure d’ingenieurs de Beyrouth, ESIB) has 56 presentations for a total of 93 connections with employers.
A wide range of fields was covered: Development of software, Engineering, IT system integrators, Telecommunication, Wireless data communications, Contracting…
As for the Institut of audiovisual and cinematographical studies (Institut d'études scéniques audiovisuelles et cinématographiques IESAV) the number of connections with employers is 25.
They focused mainly on production houses or filmmakers and TV channels.

Particular themes were discussed as how to build a career in a family business or how to engage a career in hotel management with Hilton or Intercontinental. IGE was also very active during its job fair multiplying the activities from talks to CV corrections, meetings with employers…

The Graduate School of Food Engineers (École supérieure d'ingénieurs agroalimentaires ESIA) has also put in place employers’ presentations on campus.

Similarly the Faculty of Business and Management (Faculté de gestion et de management FGM) organized presentations on campus and in the employers offices related to banking, auditing, consultancy…in addition to an intervention from an expert in the Ministry of Economy and Trade.

FGM has, for 15 years, organized a very active job fair on its premises where more than 55 companies (banking, commercial, social and industrial sectors ) participated. 500 CVs were handed by the students to the representatives of these companies.
For more details on these events, please consult the following link

Saint Joseph University has deployed further actions to enhance the employability of its students.

One major achievement was to develop a website for fast track job application. User friendly, this site allows enterprises to put on line their job offers for students to apply directly. Since its creation, over 1050 companies in Lebanon and abroad have ceased this opportunity to directly address their openings. However, some companies prefer to go through the Career and Placement Center, in such a case, job offers relayed by the companies are sent via the CPC by mail to its database matching the student’s profile and that of the specified in the job offer.

Various partnerships were concluded covering medical, social, humanitarian, audiovisual, digital, hotel management, insurance, engineering…domains.

Students had the opportunity to carry an internship in film production, banks, and social entities.

The Institute of Business Management (Institut de gestion des entreprises IGE) provides Computer studies and training as well as studies in Marketing and publicity for professional purposes. By the nature of these studies, it is highly important that the students have access to training in the relative companies. Accordingly, IGE has signed a partnership agreement with several companies to ensure proper integration in the work place.

The Lebanese School of Social Formation (Ecole libanaise de formation sociale ELFS) has also signed partnership agreement with social entities as AFEL, Dar El Amal…and secured training in social work in these entities.

For the same purposes, The Graduate School of Food Engineers (École supérieure d'ingénieurs agroalimentaires ESIA) reached an agreement with food companies in order to train its student and immerge them in the practical side of their studies.

All these partnership have the same end, hence to increase the proximity between students and potential employers.

For more details on these events, please consult the following link