15 May 2018: The Alumni Community Opens the TAU 2018 Job Fare

As part of the 2018 Job Fair events, the Tel Aviv University Alumni Organization continued to focus on its alumni's Career Development and held a TED-style conference in collaboration with the TAU Career Development Center. The event focused on the Israeli and global world of work, and was held especially before the annual Job Fair opened, where alumni could meet over a hundred different possible employers and expand their career opportunities.

The event featured a notable presence of female power, with five women speakers, including three alumnae, holding key roles in the economy:

Nirit Cohen - Researcher, Consultant and Lecturer on the future work world, former VP of Human Resources at Intel Israel, said: "Technological advancement has transformed the world of work from a place you go to to something you do.

It is no longer possible to assume that the curriculum in our lives will sustain us until retirement. The frequent changes in the field require us to constantly learn, learning how to learn and updating our capabilities all the time so we can adapt ourselves to a constantly changing environment...

For example - in the autonomous vehicle technology industry that is currently very successful in Israel - no one has learned in the academia how to become an autonomous car engineer. These are people who take experience and ability from their field of study and apply them in a whole new field."