Recruiting students
Find a competent and motivated Laurea’s student as an intern or for a longer employment relationship.
General
Laurea uses the JobTeaser recruitment portal, through which companies can announce their open jobs and internships, as well as thesis topics and events. This is our one centralized channel where students and alumni apply for places and participate in events according to their needs. The JobTeaser recruitment portal is a platform that connects companies and university students.
Our key partners can also browse our students’ CVs and directly recruit suitable factors.
Internships
The purpose of the internship is to acquaint the student with the practices of their field in a real work environment. The student can participate in various development tasks during the internship in the employer’s organization. The student gets valuable work experience and practical skills from the internship, which the employer also benefits from. In addition, through internships, the employer gets potential employees for the future as well.
The internship is 2.5-5 months long for full-time work or 400-800 working hours for part-time work. The student can complete the internship flexibly at a different stage of their studies, so the timing of the internship can easily be adjusted to the needs of the internship provider.
Internships can be paid or unpaid. The general recommendation is that the employer pays the salary for the internship according to the collective agreement of their field, 70-90% of the corresponding salary or according to the lowest table salary.
Internships in Business Management, IT and Service Business
Internships in Business Management, IT and Service Business are announced via the JobTeaser recruitment portal. Through JobTeaser, it is also possible to announce open jobs, thesis topics and events.
Internships in Social and Healthcare sectors
Internships in Social and Healthcare sectors are provided through the joint Jobiili service of the Universities of Applied Sciences. You can find more information about social and health internships and contact persons on this page (in Finnish).
NOTE Unpaid internships are reported to Jobiili. If you want to offer a paid internship, leave an announcement on the JobTeaser recruitment portal.
Leave an internship announcement on the JobTeaser career portal
Recruitment for a longer employment relationship
Are you looking for an expert for a fixed-term, part-time or permanent employment relationship? With us, you can find versatile experts from different fields of study.
More information about the fields of study
- Degree Programmes
- Social Services and Health Sector
- Business Management
- Business Information technology
- Data processing
- Safety, Security and Risk Management
- Hospitality Management and Service Design
- Master Degree Programmes
- Development and Management of Cosmetics Expertise
- Technology Law
- Service Innovation and Design
- Global Health and Crisis Management
- Leading Transformational Change
- Alumnis
Hire an international expert
International students can offer innovative and creative solutions to your challenges. Students can also act as a link between your company and your international partners with language skills and knowledge of culture. Laurea has international students both completing the full degree and as exchange students.
The employment situation of Finnish students who graduated from Laurea is one of the best in our country. We also want to guarantee our international students the opportunity to be employed in expert positions corresponding to their education.
Read more, what different ways does Laurea offer for cooperation with international students?
Benefits for businesses
- The opportunity to develop language skills and multicultural competence
- Internationalization of operations
- Utilizing the trainee’s cultural background in the activity
- Possibility to recruit also from outside the EU, such as Asia
JobTeaser
Companies can advertise their available jobs, internships and thesis topics to Laurea students free of charge in the portal. Companies have two choices for doing so:
- A company can create its own company profile and leave an announcement about an open position or announce events. The company profile functions as a student-oriented version of the company’s website.
- The company can create a recruiter’s account and leave an announcement only for an open position.
Why should company create a company profile?
- Establishing a company profile gives your company a chance to present your company in more detail and you can easily edit company information.
- Your company profile will be visible to the students at all times even if you do not have any available job postings.
- Once you have set up a profile, you can let the students know about any work-related events, such as webinars or your own recruitment events, in an easy manner.
- Once you have registered and set up a company profile, you can update the vacancies you have posted. If the open position is filled up before the application period ends, you can remove the ad yourself. (The ad will automatically be removed once the application period is over.)
- Any vacancies you announce will be registered in your company profile, so that you can use the information later on when creating a new ad.
- Both students and alumni use JobTeaser when searching for open jobs or information about events that interest them.
- Key partners can also browse our students’ CVs and directly recruit suitable factors.
Please note that in case you decide to create a company profile, extra care should be taken to fill in all the required sections. A well-made company profile will attract students to get to know your company and apply for your open positions. The company profile functions as a student-oriented version of your website.
Once your company has made a job or internship available, it will be approved by Laurea. We will take the time to review the information in the ad before it is published in the JobTeaser recruitment portal.
NOTE Unpaid internships in the social and health sector are provided through the joint Jobiili service. Read more here.
6 steps to create a good vacancy
- Clear heading
- When the job title is presented clearly, applicants interested in the job can find it more reliably. If the company wants to implement creative titling, however, it is worth including the job title clearly in the title.
- If it is an internship or a thesis topic, this should already be stated in the title.
- A clear mention of the duration of the task, the desired starting time and the location of the workplace
- A short summary of the company and its operations
- This creates interest and a clearer overall picture of the workplace and work environment
- Most important tasks
- Job titles may have different job duties in different companies, so describe what the job description actually includes. Tell about the job tasks comprehensively, but clearly. You can also mention what kind of goals the position has, as this can help the applicant to understand his job duties and his own role more clearly. Especially in the internship announcement, it would be good to highlight what kind of professional knowledge and understanding the student will get from the internship in question.
- What skills, educational background or other requirements are you looking for in the applicant? It is important to tell what kind of expectations and requirements there are towards the applicant. You should include the most important expectations in the announcement. When you express your expectations well in the job advertisement, you get targeted jobs for the right applicants. In this way, applicants also know how to tell you better in their CV and application exactly the things you want to hear about.
- Separate the requirements and the “good to know” sections clearly
- Most of the applicants, especially students, read the requirements literally and often do not apply for the position, because they feel that they do not meet all the expectations.
- Benefits and the potential added value of the job in question for the applicant
- The benefits brought by the job make the job seeker’s interest in the job stronger. You should highlight why the applicant should apply for this position and your company.
- Application instructions and contact persons
If it’s an unpaid internship, it’s a good idea to state it clearly in the announcement.
10 steps to a successful internship – work community edition
- Planning
- Personnel planning and intern duties
- Let’s meet
- Information about open internships
- Student choice
- Preparing
- Selection of the supervisor and informing the work community
- Goals of the internship
- Welcoming
- Supervisor, instructor – the entire work community
- We provide the necessary tools and take care of other practical matters
- Introduction
- To work tasks, the work community and its rules
- Enabling learning
- An appropriate amount of responsibility and various tasks are given
- Giving feedback
- Continuous and constructive discussion between instructor and student
- Keep in touch
- Communication between the supervisor, the student and the responsible teacher of the educational institution
- Evaluating
- Evaluation of the student, instructor and work community
- Ending the internship
- A certificate of internship
- Returning keys and other practical matters
- Farewell or other consideration
FAQ
How long internship must be?
The length of the internship varies from 2.5 to 5 months. The studies of Laurea’s students include two internships, which the student can complete either as two separate internships or as one longer internship. The internship can also be completed part-time, in which case the length of one internship period is 400 hours. The student has the opportunity to complete an internship also during the summer, when the internship period can be formed into a fixed-term employment relationship similar to a summer job.
When students can start internships?
The student can complete the internship flexibly at a different stage of their studies, so the timing of the internship can easily be adjusted to the needs of the internship provider.
What kind of internship agreement is made with the student?
In a paid internship, the student has an employment relationship with the internship provider, and in this case the student and the employer enter into a separate employment contract in accordance with the Employment Contracts Act.
During the unpaid internship, the intern is a student of Laurea, in which case the student, the representative of the internship and the representative of Laurea sign an internship contract.
More information
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Olga Kymäläinen
Specialist