Top 11 reasons to participate in student competitions

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Ideal opportunity to showcase your creativity and real-life skills. Student competitions can translate into real achievements that will be attractive to recruiters/employers you will encounter after graduation.

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In most cases, competitions include fully funded trips abroad, a nice way to discover the world for free.

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Get job offers before you graduate! It just so happens that occasionally the company organizing the competition will offer full-time jobs to the participants.

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Most competitions require teamwork participation. What a great way to experience teamwork while completing real-life professional challenges.

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Easy to apply – most student competitions do not require answering long (and often boring) application questions. Instead, you are there to create your applications in a way that allows your creativity to shine.

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Perfect for networking – by joining a student competition, you will be making connections to many interesting and creative people, in addition to the companies looking for these exceptional young people.

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Cash – many student competitions offer lucrative cash prizes from €10,000 to even €200,000 (example: Valeo Competition). Imagine being awarded that much cash, what would you do?

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Everybody wins! Wondering how? Even if you do not get on the short-list or get a prize, you still walk away with the valuable experience and all new skills that you will gain from your participation.

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Test your ideas in the real world! Forget about academic essays where most of the students score well. Student competitions will bring a real market to judge your ideas for real-world situations.

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Get a taste of a competitive world. The sooner you learn how our competitive world functions, the better for you. Student competitions are a perfect way to experience the real world after graduation.

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Discover your inborn talent. The flow of new ideas and creativity that you experience participating in a student competition will guide you to discover your inborn talents quicker than ever before.

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