Plan your career or develop your job search skills using the content we have compiled and produced. If you want individual support, see the page Individual and group support.
Some of the links below lead to the JobTeaser career portal, which you can log in to with your Laurea credentials. (Instructions for using JobTeaser)
CV and job application
Tips for makinga CV
- Videos to support CV creation:
- Building Career Clarity – CV 1 – Focus on what matters in your CV – Laurea MediaSpace 19 min
- Building Career Clarity – CV 2 – Clear headline and summary help the recruiter understand you – Laurea MediaSpace 12 min
- Building Career Clarity – CV 3 – What experience belongs in your CV – Laurea MediaSpace 19 min
- Building Career Clarity – CV 4 – Your degree title doesn’t tell enough about your studies – Laurea MediaSpace 10 min
- Building Career Clarity – CV 5 – Changing careers Your CV needs extra care – Laurea MediaSpace 16 min
- More CV tips in JobTeaser: Laurea Career Tools | JobTeaser
- CV and cover letter tips by InfoFinland: InfoFinland – Job application and CV
Tips for writing a job application
- Videos to support job application writing:
- JBuilding Career Clarity – Cover Letter 1 – Explain your fit with your cover letter – Laurea MediaSpace
- Building Career Clarity – Cover Letter 2 – How to respond to a job posting with an effective structure – Laurea MediaSpace
- Building Career Clarity – Cover Letter 3 – An open application should be specific – Laurea MediaSpace
- More cover letter tips in JobTeaser: Laurea Career Tools | JobTeaser
Check the event calendar for upcoming related events: Recruitment and training events | JobTeaser
Job interview
Tips for the job interview
- Learn more in Jobteaser: Laurea Career Tools | JobTeaser
- Material from Master your job interview webinar: Webinar_interview_autumn_2025.3916720326.pdf
Check the event calendar for upcoming related events: Recruitment and training events | JobTeaser
More tips for intervies in JobTeaser: Laurea Career Tools | JobTeaser
Videos for using LinkedIn
- Building Career Clarity – LinkedIn 1 – Create a LinkedIn profile that looks like you – Laurea MediaSpace
- Building Career Clarity – LinkedIn 2 – Be active on LinkedIn – even without posting yourself – Laurea MediaSpace
- Building Career Clarity – LinkedIn 3 – Find the right people with LinkedIn Alumni and People search – Laurea MediaSpace
Check the event calendar for upcoming related events: Recruitment and training events | JobTeaser
More about LinkedIn & networking in JobTeaser: Laurea Career Tools | JobTeaser
Recognise and express skills and motivation
Videos to support recognising and articulating skills and motivation
- Building Career Clarity – Exercise – Identify your skills through what you’ve done – Laurea MediaSpace
- Building Career Clarity – Exercise – Identify skill requirements from job postings – Laurea MediaSpace
- Building Career Clarity – Plan a sustainable career – for you too – Laurea MediaSpace
Check the event calendar for upcoming related events: Recruitment and training events | JobTeaser
More material for recognising and expressing your skills: Laurea Career Tools | JobTeaser
Job search, hidden jobs or networking
Videos to support searching for hidden jobs
- Building Career Clarity – Thesis as a career building tool – Laurea MediaSpace
- Building Career Clarity – Exercise – Use information interviews to get to know your industry – Laurea MediaSpace
- Building Career Clarity – LinkedIn 3 – Find the right people with LinkedIn Alumni and People search – Laurea MediaSpace
Check the event calendar for upcoming related events: Recruitment and training events | JobTeaser
More about job search in JobTeaser: Laurea Career Tools | JobTeaser
Considering career direction and changing field
Career planning
“Career planning involves a comprehensive orientation to the future and working on one’s identity. Its most central elements are agency and meaningfulness.”
“Our identity, life history and personality are constantly in dialogue with our environment. When considering our future, different questions may become meaningful at different times. In addition, for example where we come from, what decisions we have already made, who is in our close circle, what needs and wishes these people have, or what happens in our economy, can affect what we even see as possible for ourselves. Global trends also reflect in our lives. Therefore questions and reflections about the future are different for each of us.”
Read the full article (in Finnish): Career planning (Aarresaari)
Tools for career planning
- Test your career skills and develop a career plan for yourself (Hyria)
- See which positions your qualification has led to employment in (töissä.fi)
- TEST: Identify your character strengths (viacharacter.org)
- TEST: Identify your personality type (16Personalities)
Could sustainability thinking serve as a starting point for your career?
- Article: Sustainable career planning can also start from you | Laurea Journal (Finnish)
- Video: Building Career Clarity – Plan a sustainable career – for you too – Laurea MediaSpace
Changing field
Resources for career changers
- Video: Building Career Clarity – CV 5 – Changing careers Your CV needs extra care – Laurea MediaSpace 16 min
- Podcasts for career changers (in Finnish)
Check the event calendar for upcoming related events: Recruitment and training events | JobTeaser
Entrepreneurship
Check out entrepreneurship info at Laurea’s JobTeaser: Laurea Career Tools | JobTeaser
Read more about entrepreneurship in Finland:
- Starting a business interests me – Situation-based information – Job Market Finland
- Entrepreneurship – Information on being an employer or entrepreneur – Job Market Finland
- What is entrepreneurship? – Yrittajat.fi
- Starting a Business | Learn How to Establish Your Own Company
- Find out about working as an entrepreneur in Finland – Work in Finland – Suomi.fi
Check the event calendar for upcoming related events: Recruitment and training events | JobTeaser
Join “START TO FINNISH” – a course by Akava about Finnish working life
The course is organized entirely online and there are no joint lectures during the course. The course materials are available in an online platform where you will move forward at your own pace. You will have access to the materials for the duration of your studies or as long as your study institution is in cooperation with Akava.
Read more: Laurea Career Tools | JobTeaser
Enroll with your Laurea credentials: Welcome | Start to Finnish – Students