What different ways does Laurea offer to collaborate with international students?
International students can offer innovative solutions to your challenges and act as a linguistically skilled and culturally knowledgeable link between your company and your international partners.
Collaboration with international students
International students can offer innovative and creative solutions to your challenges. Students can also act as linguistically skilled and culturally knowledgeable links between your company and your international partners. Laurea has international students both completing full degree programmes and as exchange students.
Finnish students who have graduated from Laurea have one of the best employment situations in the country. We want to ensure that our international students also have the opportunity to find employment in expert roles that match their education.
More information on the topic on BeGlobal’s Facebook.
Benefits for companies in brief
- Opportunity to develop language skills and multicultural competence
- Internationalisation of operations
- Utilising the trainee’s cultural background in operations
- Possibility to recruit also from outside the EU, such as Asia
Examples of collaboration models include
- Company visits
- Development projects based on the company’s needs
- Internships
- Thesis projects
Laurea’s English-language programmes
Laurea offers several English-language programmes with a large number of degree students from around the world in addition to Finnish students, for example from Europe, Asia, Africa and South America.
Our international students become well acquainted during their studies with Finnish company culture and working methods with the goal of entering the Finnish labour market. Work placements are an important part of an international student’s development of professional identity and language skills.
International professionals study at Laurea in the following fields:
- Business Management
- Business Information Technology: Cyber Security and Developing Digital Services
- Hospitality Management and Service Design
- Nursing
- Safety, Security and Risk Management
- Social Services
Master’s degrees
- Service Innovation and Design
- Global Health and Crisis Management
- Technology Law
- Development and Management of Cosmetics Expertise
- Master’s Degree in Managing Digital Transformation in the Health Sector (ManagiDiTH)
Post an open position on JobTeaser
Companies can post an open job or internship free of charge to Laurea students. A company has two options to submit an open announcement to JobTeaser:
- The company can create its own company profile and post an announcement about an open position or events. The company profile serves as a student-facing version of your company website.
- The company can create a recruiter account and post an announcement only about an open position.
Why create a company profile?
- Creating a company profile allows your company to present its activities in more detail and you can easily edit the company’s information
- Your company profile is constantly visible to students even if you have no open positions.
- Through your profile you can conveniently announce various career events you organise for students, such as webinars or your own recruitment events.
- Through the company profile you can update the announcements you have posted. If an open position is filled before the application period ends, you can remove the announcement yourself (the announcement is also removed automatically when the application period ends)
- The announcements your company posts are stored in your company profile, so you can use them as a basis for a new announcement later if needed
- Both students and alumni use JobTeaser when searching for open positions or information about events that interest them.
- Key partners have the opportunity to browse students’ CVs
Please note that if you choose to create a company profile, we ask you to carefully complete the required fields. A well-made company profile attracts students to learn about your company and apply for your open positions. The company profile serves as a student-facing version of your website.
When your company has posted an announcement about an open job or internship, it will be approved by Laurea, where the announcement is checked and then published in the JobTeaser career portal.
NOTE. Unpaid social and healthcare internships are forwarded through the joint universities of applied sciences’ Jobiili service.
Guidelines for making a good job advertisement
- Clear titling
- When the job title is presented clearly, interested applicants will find it more reliably. If the company wants to use creative titling, it is still advisable to include the actual job title clearly in the heading.
- If the position is an internship or a thesis topic, it is good to state this already in the title.
- Clear titling
- Clear mention of the job period, desired starting date and job location
- Short summary of the company and its activities
- This creates interest and a clearer overall picture of the job and the work environment
- Short summary of the company and its activities
- Main job duties
- Job titles may involve different tasks in different companies, so describe what the job description actually includes. Describe the tasks comprehensively but clearly. You can also mention the objectives of the role, as this can help the applicant understand the tasks and their own role more clearly. Especially in an internship announcement, it is good to highlight what kind of professional skills and understanding the student will gain from the internship.
- What skills, educational background or other requirements are you looking for from the applicant? It is important to state what expectations and requirements you have for the applicant. Highlight the most important expectations in the announcement. When you express the expectations well in the job announcement, you will attract the right applicants. This also helps applicants to better describe in their CV and application the things you want to hear about.
- Clearly separate the requirements and “nice to have” sections
- Most applicants, especially students, read requirements literally and often do not apply because they feel they do not meet all expectations.
- Clearly separate the requirements and “nice to have” sections
- Main job duties
- Benefits and the potential added value of the position for the applicant
- The benefits the job brings increase the applicant’s interest in the position. It is worth pointing out why the applicant should apply for this position and your company.
- Benefits and the potential added value of the position for the applicant
- Application instructions and contact persons
If it is an unpaid internship, it should be stated clearly in the announcement.
10 steps in the workplace to a successful internship
- Planning
- Personnel planning and trainee tasks
- Planning
- Meeting
- Advertising open traineeships
- Selection of student
- Meeting
- Preparing
- Selection of a supervisor and informing the workplace
- Goals for the internship period
- Preparing
- Welcoming
- Supervisor, tutor – the whole work community
- Provide necessary work tools and handle other practical matters
- Welcoming
- Orientation
- To tasks, the work community and its rules
- Orientation
- Enable learning
- Give an appropriate amount of responsibility and a variety of tasks
- Enable learning
- Give feedback
- Continuous and constructive discussion between the supervisor and the student
- Give feedback
- Keep in touch
- Communication between the supervisor, the student and the institution’s responsible teacher
- Keep in touch
- Evaluate
- Evaluation by the student, the supervisor and the work community
- Evaluate
- The internship ends
- Issue a certificate of the internship
- Return of keys etc. and other practical matters
- Farewell or other recognition
- The internship ends
For more information, contact
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Olga Kymäläinen
Specialist
-
Mari Koski
Head of Student Affairs
mari.koski@laurea.fi
+358 9 886 879 13