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Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –
More than 28 thousand Polytechnic students have access to a portfolio on the PoliKapital platform. The digital platform created at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University allows young people to present their educational, scientific and extracurricular experience in one place. The platform helps analyze data and build a potential development trajectory. PoliKapital connects students and employers in one place and ensures a seamless transition to the labor market straight from the student bench. The work was carried out with the support of the strategic academic leadership program “Priority-2030” of the Ministry of Education and Science and the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs.
According to official data from Rosstat, the average unemployment rate in Russia for June-August 2024 was 2.4%, which is a historical minimum for the entire observation period of the indicator since 1991. More and more often, HR specialists talk about the labor market, implying a shortage of employees. HR specialists must make a lot of effort to find the right specialists. To simplify communication between students and employers, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University has developed the PolyCapital platform. The digital platform, created to visualize students’ portfolios, allows them to demonstrate their achievements and skills to employers.
The PolyCapital platform is a software product that allows you to evaluate the accumulated experience of a student (their input data): educational, scientific and extracurricular achievements, as well as build a potential trajectory of his development, taking into account the individual educational and career trajectory at the university and calculating the capitalization of the graduate based on his investment attractiveness. Students can visualize all their experience, evaluate skills and competencies, create a digital portfolio and find vacancies and contact a potential employer directly on the platform. Data from more than 28 thousand students has already been processed.
The uniqueness of our platform is that it brings together in one place both hard skills — the educational and scientific achievements of students, and supra-professional competencies — the ability to work in a team, adaptability, learning ability, etc. And feedback from employers allows us to more accurately understand the requirements for students from the industry and take them into account in the educational process. The mission of PolyCapital is to support students in their career development, providing access to tools that help them realize their potential and successfully enter the professional world, — notes the project manager, director of the Center for the Formation of the Contingent of Students of SPbPU Varvara Sotova.
The team created the platform from scratch. The logic and structure of the platform are developed by a business analyst. Based on these ideas, designers create a UI KIT (a set of platform elements) and draw layouts for various screen resolutions. A Polytechnic Master’s student is responsible for the backend development. After writing the server and client parts, the team of testers analyzes the result. They develop user scenarios for each role and, after adding new functionality, study the performance over and over again.
Other platforms that provide digital portfolios for adult professionals can be considered analogs of PoliKapital. However, its uniqueness lies in its deep integration with the university ecosystem and the systematization of student data: when compiling an online resume, the platform takes into account absolutely all of the student’s experience throughout their studies. In the future, the team plans to introduce the program to other universities in the country. This will create a large-scale network connecting students and employers, which will significantly simplify the employment process for young professionals.
The work was carried out with the support of the strategic academic leadership program “Priority-2030” of the Ministry of Education and Science and the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs.
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