Looking for a job in Finland as an international job seeker can be challenging. Especially if you are highly educated and wish to find a position that matches your education and expertise. To succeed, you need to overcome many obstacles, such as learning the language, building new professional networks and understanding the local work culture. It’s also possible that your foreign qualifications don’t align with the employer’s expectations, and you’ll need to update your skills or,

When talking about languages, Finnish always comes up as being a hard language to learn. There are 15 grammatical cases and other grammatical things that can make you feel horrified. Sure, Finnish may be a bit hard language to grasp but it is not as hard as Japanese, Korean or Arabic, according to the US State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, FSI (1). Does this make you feel any better? Good!

There are actually a few different reasons why I think Finnish is easier to learn than you think.

Hundreds of highly educated foreign nurses are working in Finland in positions unrelated to their education, for example as a care assistant or as a practical nurse (1).” I worked as a care assistant one year and then I studied to become a practical nurse through an apprenticeship contract in Finland”, says Ronalyn, who completed the Career Boost Programme at Metropolia UAS in 2022 (2). Before moving to Finland, she studied four years getting a Bachelor´s level nursing degree in the Philippines.