Study Guide

Learning outcomes

The student is able to
- recognise their own competences and create professional goals and professional identity
- recognise the practices and the rules of Finnish work life and create useful contacts and networks for the future career
- demonstrate mastery of the job application process, creating job application documents (application, CV, video CV) and acting during a job application process

Implementation and methods of teaching

The course is aimed at the second and the third year foreign students and at those Finnish students who wish to improve their job search skills as well as multicultural skills.
Learning methods: contact lectures, small groups discussions based on learning assignments, company visit/visitor lecturer, job interview simulation.

Timing and attendance

Compulsory participation on contact lectures 6.9.-29.11.2019

Learning material and recommended literature

Materials in Reppu

Alternative completion methods

-

Working life cooperation

possibly a company visit or a visitor lecturer

Exam retakes

-

Learning environment

Reppu, a class room, a simulation room, possibly a company visit.

Student time use and work load

5 ects -> 135h

Contents

The course objective is to increase the foreign student's believe and trust in his/her employment opportunities in Finland, and to support him/her in a variety of different means.
Learning objectives
A student
-recognizes his/her own competences and creates professional goals and professional identity
-knows the practices and the rules of Finnish work life
-is familiar with the different job portals and is able to utilize the social media for a job search
-is able to give an elevator pitch and create the documents (application, CV) and knows how to act during a job applying process
-creates useful contacts and networks for the future career.

Additional information for students: previous knowledge etc.

Prerequisites for foreign IBU and BIT students: passed or simultaneously course
Finnish for Foreigners 4.
Prerequisites for foreign NUR students: passed course
Professional Finnish 2.

Assessment criteria

Assesment methods
- active participation in contact lectures and possibly visits
- learning assingments
- exam about Finnish working knowledge
- self evaluation

Assessment scale

1-5