The health crisis caused by COVID19 has also affected other areas, such as the economy. The machinery of many companies has hibernated during this period of state of alarm and, in some cases, has come to a halt. This has not been the case at Tecnun, where the External Relations Service has continued to work hard to provide internship and job offers to students and graduates of the School of Engineering.

According to a report prepared by the service itself, since March 13, when the state of alarm was established, 28 internship offers have been published, of which 21 have already been closed with candidate and another 4 will be closed shortly. During this period, the service has also published 20 job offers.

On the other hand, on May 12, the service organized a virtual session on Amazon Fulfilment with the students of the master's degree in Industrial Engineering.

In addition, from Career Services of the University of Navarra has also facilitated participation in Highered's virtual international job fairs, aimed at graduates and seniors. It is an interesting occasion for all students and alumni looking forgraduate programs(graduate Programs),internships andexperienced hire opportunities. It is also a good time to explore and meet new companies from all sectors and find out which subject profiles are in demand. Participating companies post offers for all subject profiles.

The student of Tecnun MaitaneOlaizola is one of those who have managed to get a job during the state of alarm. Specifically, she is going to join the company DIGIC with an employment contract as a consultant. When the confinement began she had already placed herself at contact with DIGIC. "The company is located in Madrid, but it so happened that they had to come to San Sebastian to talk to a client," says Maitane, "So we were going to take advantage of the status to have a face-to-face interview. However, that week was precisely the one in which the state of alarm began, so in the end it had to be a telephone interview".

However, they had already met before, as they were able to get to know each other in person at the Employment Forum at Tecnun , and that always makes things easier. "From the first moment I really liked the company and felt very comfortable talking to them. So I didn't hesitate to contact them again at contact , and since we already knew each other from the Forum it was much easier. From that moment on, we talked on the phone and they offered me the job", recalls this engineer.

In the case of student Juan Alcalde, he returned from Switzerland just before the confinement, in February, and since the beginning of March he was waiting to do the submission of the report and the presentation of the project final master's degree, which he finally did by videoconference on May 4. In the meantime, in addition to continuing to be active in online training courses, he was still looking for a job. He had also made several contacts at the Employment Forum at Tecnun, "but since the beginning of the confinement most of the selection processes in which I found myself were frozen until this statuswas resolved," he explains. 

However, he has secured employment as a Demand Planner at Danone, where he will start on May 25 working remotely. "Although at first, after the start of the confinement, it seemed impossible to find a job opportunity until the status was resolved, there are certain sectors that continue to work and continue to have hiring needs and as normality returns, we can see that new job offers are being published," concludes Juan. 

María Alzueta has been offered a summer internship at Procter&Gamble in London at department Consumer and Market Knowledge (CMK) and an offer to start working full time at BCG in September as a strategic associate consultant .

Despite the uncertainty about her internship, which was due to start in London on June 1, in the end she will be able to do it on the same date, albeit online. "As for BCG, I haven't had any change so far, although I have been told that the start date could be postponed to October", admits María, whose plans have been a bit upset by this status , but it hasn't changed the course she had set.