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Networking – key to employment

Emilia Deseille · 8.4.2020

How have you boosted your professional networks in the past couple of months? 

As we embarked into this decade, the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra published a compilation of future mega trends (1) stating that the importance of networks and managing …

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Boost your Talent with Finland – Towards a Career Path for International Degree Students

Marika Antikainen · 13.12.2019

Finland and Helsinki rank in the top 10 in several studies measuring the quality of life and people’s satisfaction in their lives (e.g. Helliwell & al. 2019, Eurostat 2019, Kisi 2019). What was your reason to get …

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Highly skilled immigrants aboard to build Finland

Niina Tapanainen · 8.12.2017

 

Pedro Góis (2017) informs that in USA alone, immigrants have been involved with founding companies such as “Google, Intel, WhatsApp, PayPal, eBay, Tesla, and Yahoo” and even though immigrants “make up less than 15 percent of the US population, …

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Various Variables blog is part of Talent Boost project

Blog introduces information, tips and insights that help international talents with a higher education background to integrate and find their study and career paths in Finland. The blog is part of Metropolia’s #talentboost actions.

Various Variables blog´s Editorial Board

  • Outi Lemettinen (head editor)
  • Riikka Wallin
  • Anu Luoma

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Editorial Board handles all the publications of Various Variables blog before publishing.

Bloggers

Emilia Deseille

is passionate about career development of international talents in Finland. Having studied and worked abroad on several occasions, she has experience in starting a career abroad, and feels at home in a multilingual and intercultural environment. Before joining the SIMHE Metropolia team as a career coach and employer relations specialist, Emilia was working in the field of labor market integration in Austria. She has a Master of Social Sciences degree in Development and International Cooperation, and studies in Intercultural Communication and Adult Education. In her spare time, Emilia enjoys dancing and doing other sports with friends, and the language geek in her enjoys learning new languages.


Niina Tapanainen

spends most of her working hours with SIMHE personal and group guidance. Niina has a Master’s Degree in Education and is a qualified Guidance Counsellor and Psychology (as a second subject) Teacher. She has worked over a decade in Higher Education Institutions in various posts within the study and student services also with international students and admissions. She volunteers to help youngsters and spends rest of her free time enjoying life: relaxing, dreaming and whatever interesting comes her way.


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Archive

  • ▼ 2023 (2)
    • ▼ March (1)
      • Entering the labor market in Finland as immigrant - a story of Sufi
    • ▼ January (1)
      • Playing hide and seek with hidden job markets
  • ► 2022 (3)
    • ► October (1)
      • Make sure that your CV is as professional as you are
    • ► August (1)
      • The Art of Networking - where to start if you don´t know anyone in Finland?
    • ► January (1)
      • Dip your toes or just dive right in: the Helsinki region invites you to explore entrepreneurship
  • ► 2021 (4)
    • ► November (1)
      • Knowing your skills is crucial for your career ‒ how to get started?
    • ► October (1)
      • Sustainability: the winning strategy for you, your organisation and all of us
    • ► June (2)
      • Talent hubs in the making: collaborating for a Future Finland
      • Find your way to become a Finnish speaker
  • ▼ 2020 (5)
    • ▼ December (1)
      • Courage to Use Finnish - Growing into a Professional
    • ▼ June (1)
      • Mentoring in the time of corona: networks, insights and improved employability for international talents
    • ▼ April (2)
      • Now everybody’s viral – how we made it to the new decade of online education and work 
      • Networking - key to employment
    • ▼ February (1)
      • SIMHE path ─ connecting Finnish employers and international talents 
  • ► 2019 (4)
    • ► December (1)
      • Boost your Talent with Finland - Towards a Career Path for International Degree Students
    • ► June (1)
      • My Journey in Supporting Immigrant Women in Higher Education
    • ► May (1)
      • Finding suitable career paths for the highly educated immigrants
    • ► March (1)
      • Do you need supplementary education?
  • ► 2018 (2)
    • ► May (1)
      • How to succeed in higher education in Finland?
    • ► February (1)
      • Supporting Highly Educated Immigrants' Career Paths in Finland
  • ► 2017 (5)
    • ► December (1)
      • Highly skilled immigrants aboard to build Finland
    • ► November (1)
      • Healthy Mind, Healthy Life - How to improve the sense of belongingness among highly educated immigrants in Finland?
    • ► September (1)
      • Is it all about happiness?
    • ► March (1)
      • 365 steps later
    • ► February (1)
      • Mathematics and various variables
  • ► 2016 (3)
    • ► September (1)
      • Can you see it more clearly now?
    • ► June (1)
      • To have someone who listens to me...
    • ► May (1)
      • Recognising competencies of educated immigrants

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Metropolia University of Applied Sciences started developing Supporting Immigrants in Higher Education (SIMHE) services in 2016. The services are targeted to immigrants and asylum seekers with a higher education background. The goal is to recognise their competence and to guide them for suitable study and career paths in Finland.

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