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The University of Helsinki Career Services offers career skills training
during spring semester 2014 at the Centre Campus.
What is career planning? How do I market my knowledge and skills? What are the building blocks of a good job application or a CV? How to be successful at a job interview? Continue reading “Curriculum for Career 2014 spring”
“Our alumni activities are all about having a genuine community feeling with real interaction. When the activities are designed and initiated by the alumni themselves, they also want to take part in them,” Österman says. Continue reading “Alumni buddies! It pays to involve alumni in the University’s activities”Want to develop your idea with others? Got skills, but need and idea to
work on? Join Startup Weekend Helsinki and go from idea to launch in just 54 hours!
Startup Weekends are events where developers, researchers,
scientists, marketers and other entrepreneurial enthusiasts meet each
other to create and develop ideas into business in multidisciplinary teams. Continue reading “From business idea to launch in 54 hours?”
Are you looking for a job? If you said yes, check out the new Career Services guide for job hunting!In the current labour market an increased amount of available positions are not openly advertised. Instead, a suitable person will be hired if she/he asks or offers his/her skills directly to employer.
Career Services published a guide for the Hidden Labour Market, which is now also available in English. Check it out!
For the past few years, the Osaajaksi asiakasprojektiin (“Expertise for client projects”) project has brought students near graduation together with employers seeking project staff.
Text and photo: Suvi Kataja
When Jussi Rasinmäki, CEO of the Riihimäki-based Simosol, learned about the traineeship opportunities from the local business development company YritysVoimala Oy, he jumped at the chance. The project made hiring easy.
“On our own we would never have been able to find these skilled young people to help us,” Rasinmäki says in praise of the project.
A provider of forest resource planning software, Simosol has developed from a spin-off spearheaded by three foresters into an eight-person business with clients that include forestry companies and the Finnish Forest Centre. The company boosted its workforce earlier this spring by employing two trainees. Continue reading “Expertise for client project aims to improve graduates’ career skills”
In April 2013, the University of Helsinki opened the Helsinki Think Company space for entrepreneurs together with EnterpriseHelsinki and the Helsinki Business and Science Park.
Helsinki Think Company is a meeting place for new kind of entrepreneurship in the middle of the city, where students, researchers and entrepreneurial-minded can build networks. It is a communal workspace, scene of events and a passage to service. Think Co. is a new platform for creating business out of ideas steaming from the university.
How can I join?
Well, that’s easy! Helsinki Think Company is at Vuorikatu 5. Just go to meet other bright minded students and network.
Helsinki Think company is a meeting place for entrepreneurs or people who are interested in becoming an entrepreneur. Do you need support? Or do you need a team for your business idea? Well, then you have found the right place, because Think company offers you support together with specialists and mentors. If you want to know more, please visit at Think Company or send e-mail to ira.levaaho@helsinki.fi.
Want to know more about the events at Think Company? Check out the Facebook page!
Maybe you have already heard about Academic Action -network from your friends or from our blog, but I will write again a short post about the network. It’s important to show also the university’s perspective; when a research university embraces an entrepreneurial mindset – what happens? Erto Örnberg from University of Helsinki shares his insights and experiences on Academic action -network. Continue reading ““To be innovative is to see and do things different way””
What is career planning? How do I market my knowledge and skills? What are the building blocks of a good job application or a CV? How to be successful at a job interview?
University of Helsinki Career Services offers career skills training during spring semester 2013 at the Centre Campus. Training sessions are open for all the University of Helsinki degree students and staff. The course language is English. Continue reading “University of Helsinki Career Services offers career skills training during spring semester 2013”
The social world around you needs improvement. Something should be done about climate change. The elderly need to be taken better care of. There is something strange in the neighborhood, but who are you going to call?
Tieteestä toimintaa (‘academic action’) network gathers people who want to create more academic entrepreneurship. Network opens new doors for different projects and start-ups. Organizer Outi Kuittinen from think tank DEMOS HELSINKI shares her insights and experiences on Academic action -network. Continue reading “Academic action network promotes entrepreneurial mindset at University of Helsinki”
Our Russian student Veronika Kiseleva shares her insights and experiences on studies, career and life in Helsinki. Veronika studies in the International Master’s Degree Programme in Forest Sciences and Business (MScFB). Read more about why you should also choose one of our International Master‘s Degree Programmes, all taught in English. Continue reading “Meet our students! Why is the University of Helsinki so special?”
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