Asiakasnäkymä

Competence Centre for Highly Educated Immigrants (KOSKE)

The service provides a multi-professional team to help you find a job in Finland, offering career guidance, recruitment events, job search support, training advice, and networking opportunities.

Service implementation:

Hybrid service (combination of remote and contact),

Individual guidance,

Group guidance,

Advisory service,

Financial support

Life situation and service category:

Person with higher education,

Active jobseeker,

Immigrant (integration period ongoing),

Immigrant (integration period over),

In need of additional training,

Entrepreneur or interested in becoming one,

Looking to change careers,

Direct to work,

Job search skills,

Career planning and choice of profession

Service language:

Finnish

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English

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Swedish

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Charges:

The service is free of charge

Service accessibility

People with reduced mobility taken into account in the implementation

Possibility of easy language service

Participation in the service requires bringing your own tools or equipment

The online service is accessible

Who is the service for?

The Competence Centre for Highly Educated Immigrants is suitable for you if you meet the following criteria:

You are a client of Employment Espoo whose first language is not Finnish or Swedish.
You have a degree (at least a bachelor’s degree, completed within the last 10 years) and/or work experience in your field, gained in the last five years.
Your Finnish or Swedish proficiency level is at least B1.1 or you speak fluent English in one of the following fields: IT, technology, business, research.
Your work ability and situation in life allow you to participate in the activities on a full-time basis.

Participant’s municipality of residence:

Espoo,

Kauniainen

Age:

All people of working age

How can I participate in the service?

Employment Espoo will guide you to become a client of the competence centre. Once you are accepted to the competence centre, you will receive further information by email. As a client of the competence centre, you will attend meetings and events in Otaniemi and elsewhere in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. We will also provide career guidance remotely. Please note! We do not accept new clients in July. Aside from that, clients are guided to the competence centre throughout the year.

Conditions for participating in the service:

Participating in the service requires you to have a degree from a higher education institution.

Benefits of participating in the service:

Our goal is to find you a job in your field. You will receive support in order to gain an understanding of the Finnish labour market in your field. We will help you focus your job search, find the right employers, draw up a CV and job application, prepare for job interviews, grow your networks and find peer support.

After participating in the service, you will know more about your field in Finland, know how to search for jobs in Finland, be able to talk about your strengths and skills, and know which services can help you in the future.

How is the service organised?

You will attend an initial information event to learn more about the service. At this event, you will be scheduled an appointment for your first career guidance session, where your situation (education, career, situation in life, goals, motivation) will be assessed, you will learn more about the services available, and your employment/integration plan will be updated.

At the Competence Centre for Highly Educated Immigrants, you will be offered breakfast networking events, job search workshops, comments on your job search documents, career planning events, visits to employers, lists of suitable vacancies, and support from business coordinators.

Clients are directed to the service and can start it at different times during the year. The service is organised as a hybrid service both via a remote connection and in person in Otaniemi, Espoo. You can remain our client for up to 10 months. We will find you services that best support your employment, such as language courses, identification and recognition of your skills, supplementing your skills, coaching, mentoring programmes, programmes that promote wellbeing, and training programmes.

Attachments (open in a new tab):

KOSKE-flyer_ENG_PRESS.pdf

Competence centre website

Where and when?

Place

Tekniikantie 4C, 02150 Espoo (Espoo Talent Hub)

Accessibility

The space is physically accessible

The building has a lift

Accessible by public transport

Arrival by car and disabled parking taken into account

There are ramps to the doors.

The property has an electric car charging station.

The facilities follow the safe space principles.

Palvelun kielet toimipaikassa

Finnish,

English,