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To conclude, individual counselling is ranked at all six universities as most important and thisfact should be taken into consideration in the design of potential career advising services. Thisfinding points to a general characteristic of the Croatian student population: the students seemnot sufficiently independent and competent in designing future career options for themselves.They feel they would profit from individual counselling, which implies not only getting information,but advice and guidance about how and what to choose.514.4. Part 3: Students’ assessment of usefullness of potential trainingtopics of career advising servicesIn this part of the questionnaire, students were asked to rank in terms of usefulness the possibletraining activities that career advising services could offer. Table 18 shows results for thetotal population of Croatian students. Tables in this part of the report were derived by the samemethod as those in part 3 of the report: by adding up the positive responses in the columns “useful”and “very useful”, calculating the aggregate sum of these responses for all the respondentsand finally ranking the activities in importance based on these aggregate sums.TABLE 19: Rank-order of themes according to the ratings of usefulness of the total sampleUseful or very useful (%)Presentation skills 95,5Job application (writing CV’s, job interviews) 93,7Rhetoric 92,3Efficient learning skills 84,3Entrepreneurship 83,6Literature and database search 83,4Efficient time management 80,8As presented in Table 11, students very positively rate usefulness of all the listed workshopthemes that career advising services could offer. Positive ratings were given by at least 80% ofstudents for each of the topics, clearly indicating students’ needs for such trainings. The rankorder of the themes shows that students place more value on skills that can immediately increasetheir employability by improving their overall self-presentation, such as Presentation Skills,Rhetoric and Job Application.Next, an analysis of the findings at university-level is presented.Student needs for career advising services in Croatian universities: Research results & report