how to get a job in finland
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HOW TO GET A JOB IN FINLAND Markku Narinen 26 May 2011 –Finnish –English –Swedish –Other languages: German, French, Russian, Spanish, Estonian REQUIREMENTS OF A JOB APPLICANT Where to look at? •Ministry of labour web-service www.mol.fi •Public organisations advertise at mol.fi •Academic job search at http://www.aarresaari.net/jobboard.htm for university and polytechnique graduates •http://www.monster.fi/ •http://tyopaikat.oikotie.fi/ •The websites of companies - recruitementTRANSCRIPT
HOW TO GET A JOB IN FINLAND
Markku Narinen26 May 2011
REQUIREMENTS OF A JOB APPLICANT
• QUALIFICATION ACCORDING TO THE JOB
• LANGUAGE SKILLS, – Finnish– English– Swedish– Other languages: German, French, Russian,
Spanish, Estonian
Where to look at?
• Ministry of labour web-service www.mol.fi• Public organisations advertise at mol.fi• Academic job search at
http://www.aarresaari.net/jobboard.htm for university and polytechnique graduates
• http://www.monster.fi/• http://tyopaikat.oikotie.fi/• The websites of companies - recruitement
Networks
• Social contacts are important• www.linkedIn.com• www.facebook.com• www.twitter.com
• For students and teachers: contacts in partner schools in Finland
Qualities of a good applicant
• You must be able to tell about your competences face-to-face, in written applications and in social meda (linkedIn)
• Professionally written cv with emphasis of key competences for lifelong learning
• Recommendations from earlier jobs• In Finland it is very important to be punctual
and come to appointments in time.
Traineeships
• A good way to be hired by a company is to start as a trainee, sometimes even without salary (students) in order to get a good work certificate.
• The students may have grants for traineeships, also teachers.
Demonstration of skills
• In Finland, in vocational education and training, every student must include at least 20 credits (about 6 months) on-the-job learning in the qualification and demonstrate the competence by completing real tasks in real work processes.
• The students receive an official certificate consisting of two parts
Certificate in VET
• 1 vocational upper secondary certificate• Certificate of demonstration of skills
• The latter describes the real tasks the students have demonstrated in real work situations like a work certificate, with the names of companies where the demonstration took place
Assistance from EU
• At http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/ you can find models for international cv’s• For students Europass• For students certificate supplements