Career Services Introduction to the services related to career and working life Autumn 2015 Career Specialist Muru Linjala

Mission of the Career Services Career Services ensures that all students have an opportunity to get a contact to working life during their studies. We aim at giving students a realistic picture on working life, their preparedness for it and employment opportunities.

Creating Careers lectures Basic information on employment and finding a job Course starts on Fri 18 th September -> Registration on Korppi URAP002 Free for all students of the JYU You may attend individual lectures or take the course URAP002 Creating Careers, 1 ECTS credit

Creating Careers lectures Themes –Employment and self-employment –Job search in Finland –University-based competences – how to market them –Finnish language competence –Finnish perspective on job interviews For Finnish students URAP001 Näkökulmia työllistymiseen

Support for job search Events and presentations Tailoring your CV and job application letter Discussion with a Career Specialist (in graduation phase) Communicating jobs to students –TEP/Jobs recruitment serviceTEP/Jobs –Pointpotential.fiPointpotential.fi –Mailing list for international degree students -> subscribe here

Forum for employers in order to find their future prospective employees by offering internships or other kinds of vacancies. Jobs open in Central Finland University students may introduce their skills and competences to employers and find job by publishing their job seeking profile and setting up a job guard on the service.

Facts about Jyväskylä University of Jyväskylä = students Jamk University of Applied Sciences = 8000 students + vocational institutes -> every 4th living in Jyväskylä is a student From an employers point of view -> excess on student workforce, even Finnish students

Reasons for difficulties of finding a job in Finland Inadequate language skills (Finnish, Swedish) (78%) Lack of contacts and networks (51%) Lack of work experience (43%) Labour market situation in Finland (35%) Ethnical discrimination in recruiting (32%) Inadequate career counselling in the university (26%) Source: University of Helsinki’s study 2012 for international students

Contact Career Services Creating Careers lectures and internships Ms. Muru Linjala, CV and covering letters Ms. Annamari Rovamo, Information services, CV and covering letters Mr. Jari Penttilä, Ms. Niina Pitkänen,