The Things I Wish I Knew as a Student: How to Create Your Advantage?

📅 Date: April 14, 2026

🎙️ Speaker: Simeon Georgiev – software engineer with over 5 years of professional experience, mainly in .NET development, Bulgaria

🔐 About the event:

This event is part of the FMI Club user group.

Program highlights:

• First scenario: “I will start looking for a job after finishing my 3rd or 4th year?”
  When is the right time to do an internship or find your first job?
  Where to search for opportunities?
  How to know if you are ready to apply?
• Second scenario: “I keep applying, but no one calls me back. Maybe it just won’t happen?”
  Why am I not being contacted – and what can I do about it?
  What other options exist besides job boards?
• Third scenario: “I got invited to an interview – what now?”
• Conclusion: How university helped me and where it wasn’t enough
• Q&A session

The event is free, but pre-registration is required.

Sponsors:

Paysafe

Organizer: DEV.BG – a specialized job board for IT vacancies.

Looking for Junior/Intern positions? Check the open roles here.

About the speaker:

Simeon started his career between 1st and 2nd year of university with an internship at IQVIA – a huge corporation in clinical research with 85,000+ employees, where he worked in statistical programming. Later he worked as a backend developer in a bank and then joined M2M, a company with about 100 employees at the time. This diverse experience exposed him to various work environments – from global corporations to large financial institutions and smaller product companies.

He earned a bachelor's degree at TU-Sofia, German Faculty, specialty Computer Systems and Technologies, followed by a master’s degree at FMI-SU. Besides his professional work, Simeon is also a part-time assistant professor at TU-Sofia, giving him first-hand insights into students' challenges and questions during their first steps in IT.

Date and Time: April 14, 2026, 19:30

We look forward to seeing you!

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