About

Top Talents is a premium, two-day career event designed to bring together an elite community of over 250 finalists, that are rigorously selected from a pool of 2,000+ applicants, with leading companies in IT, Engineering, Business, Marketing & more.

Why it’s a must-attend:

  • For Talent: Step into a community of high-achievers. Gain access to leadership keynotes, career-shaping workshops, and the chance to prove yourself and stand out in our Start-Up Competition. This is your fast-track to Internship and Management Trainee programs.
  • For Partners: We provide a curated environment where you can engage with pre-validated talent through networking spaces and hands-on simulations, ensuring you find the leaders who will drive your business forward.

Our drive is to inspire and nurture the next generation of leaders, by creating a community of high-potential students and recent graduates.

Next edition: 13th and 14th November 2026, Bucharest.

250

High Potential
Candidates

2000

Top applicants

Reasons to attend

For companies

  • Increase Brand Awareness: As a partner in the project, you benefit from a personalized promotion campaign at national level. Multiple activations at the location so your employer brand can be more visible.
  • Recruitment Benefits: A great chance to interact with more young people in two days at your booth and present them your opportunities. Access candidates from national level for both Business & Tech profiles.
  • Interact with preselected candidates: Out of a pool of over 2.000 candidates, over 250 are selected as the best candidates as a result of a rigorous evaluation based on CV metrics.

For participants

  • You interact with successful managers from the companies in Top 100 Most Desired Employers.
  • Challenge yourself in our Start-Up Competition. It’s a high-energy team contest designed to simulate a professional Assessment Center, consistently rated our participants’ favorite experience.
  • You have priority access to career opportunities like internships, management trainee programs and entry-level roles.
  • You have access to a networking space and a treasure hunt with prizes.
  • Immerse and develop yourself and your skills in free leadership Keynotes and Workshop Sessions held by our partners. Hear the unfiltered career stories of Romanian and international speakers.

Partners

  • “We are very glad that we participated for the first time at this event and I can say that we were pleasantly impressed by the quality of the invited talents and the way it was organized. We had the pleasure to discuss both in individual sessions and at the networking corner with talented students who were interested in the opportunities that Microsoft can offer both in the IT area and in other departments. We thank Catalyst for the invitation made and we will definitely participate in future editions.”

    Microsoft Romania Team

  • “When passion meets creativity, wonderful projects are born. This is also the case of Top Talents 2018, the first edition we had the pleasure to participate. We were pleasantly surprised by the students' interest and their involvement during the organized workshops, the quality of the conferences and the diversity of the participants’ profile.”

    Emanuela Dobre, Employer Branding & Digital HR Strategist Groupe Renault Romania

  • “Our participation to Top Talents allows us to understand the needs, expectations and desires of Gen Z candidates. The audience profile was relevant to us, especially the final years students and graduates, who are in our focus (max. 2 years after graduation)- we were happy to see the keenness and the curiosity present in all the questions asked.”

    Vodafone Romania Team

  • “The participants at Top Talents Romania surprised us. We appreciated the quality of our discussions, their curiosity and interest for growth, their involvement throughout our sessions and Start Up Competition. They really are the high potential candidates we were looking for.”

    JTI Romania Team

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