Facts and Figures
The American University in Cairo's Career Center is a pioneer in the region in the area of career guidance, employer relations and recruitment. It was established in 1991 to become the first university career center providing comprehensive career services in the Middle East.
The center's areas of expertise and achievements include:
- Hands-on talent resourcing experience that draws on over 33+ years of professional expertise
- Professional career advising service provided by certified career development facilitator instructors and licensed assessors
- Resume critique service supported by trained Peer Career Advisors
- Serves more than 10,000+ students/alumni annually in areas of career advising, experiential learning and employment
- Holds bi-annual employment fair and has held 75 fairs to date
- A total of 530+ interviews were solicited for Class of 2024 during the Campus Recruitment Week
- Provides career services to 60% of the total student population
- Proven track record of successful fulfillment of employers' recruiting needs
- Supports annually over 600+ employers
- Contributes to capacity building in the area of career services in Egypt
Career Center in Numbers
Employment Survey Graduates of 2023
Duration students took to land their first job after graduation | |
| Before graduation | 20% |
| Less than a month | 16% |
| One to three months | 33% |
| Four to six months | 18% |
| Seven to nine months | 9% |
| Over 10 months | 4% |
Relevance to the current job on the academic degree earned at AUC | |
| Related | 42% |
| Closely Related | 41% |
| Unrelated | 17% |