Career guidance: HTP residents share recipes of success for future IT specialists

Ifortex, a resident of Hi-Tech Park, initiated a meeting with senior students of the Faculty of Radiophysics and Computer Technologies of the Belarusian State University in the format of a meetup with the graduates, who work successfully in HTP companies.

Opening the event for almost 200 participants, Dean Dmitry Ushakov proudly introduced the graduates of his faculty who took the initiative to organize the career guidance meeting: “I am grateful to the resident companies of Hi-Tech Park who give their attention to the Faculty of Radiophysics and Computer Technologies of the Belarusian State University. The hot season has started, when senior students are already looking for a job, and second- and third-year students are thinking how to get into a good company to be successful and fulfill their potential. Today our graduates are here – all of them are successfully working in Hi-Tech Park”.

Representatives of Ifortex, Factory of Innovations and Solutions and LeverX International spoke for more than two hours about their work experience in the IT sphere, shared insights about internships and offers, as well as about the value of a quality system of classical technical education even in the rapidly developing world of high technologies: “In the foreseeable future, artificial intelligence will not replace highly qualified specialists, but will become an assistant that increases productivity,” notes Evgeny Lagutin, CEO and Founder of Ifortex.

The speakers made presentations on machine learning, various development areas, robotics, testing and popular programming languages. And in response to one of the most worrying questions about gaining experience, they shared information about existing internships in HTP companies.

Evgeny Lagutin, CEO and Founder of Ifortex, a graduate of the Faculty of Radiophysics and Computer Technologies: “The format of our event is a conversation between graduates who already have experience in IT and the students. We get so many questions from them and we want to share our vision of how things are going in the market, how to look for internships, how to get experience and how to enter IT.” Evgeny Lagutin recalls with warmth his student years and continues practical interaction with his alma mater. Ifortex and the Faculty of Radiophysics and Computer Technologies have signed an agreement on basic interaction, providing for, among other things, quotas for the distribution of graduates.