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    Asiakasnäkymä
    Espoon kaupunki
    Updated 11.07.2025

    Competence Centre for Highly Educated Immigrants (KOSKE)

    The service involves a multi-professional team helping you find a job in your field in Finland. We will assess your situation. We will offer you career guidance, various services and training, help with your job search, etc.
    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,
    Aiming for the open labour market,
    On integration period,
    Integration period has passed,
    Interested in training or education,
    Prolonged unemployment,
    Foreign qualification or degree,
    Interested in entrepreneurship,
    Direct to work,
    Job search skills,
    Career planning and choice of profession
    Service language:
    Finnish
    (b1.1 functional basic proficiency)
    ,
    English
    (b2.2 functional independent proficiency)
    ,
    Swedish
    (b1.1 functional basic proficiency)
    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:

    1. You are a client of Employment Espoo whose first language is not Finnish or Swedish.
    2. 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.
    3. 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.
    4. 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:
    Kaikille työikäisille

    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 an invitation to an initial information session. As a client of the competence centre, you will attend meetings and events both via a remote connection and in person in Otaniemi and elsewhere in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area.  Clients are continuously guided to the competence centre.

    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. 

    The Espoo employment area does not have to fill in consent forms. The Espoo Competence Centre for Highly Educated Immigrants will fill in a separate consent form with the client.

    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.

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    Where and when?

    Place
    Tekniikantie 4C, 02150 Espoo (Espoo Talent Hub)
    Accessibility
    Tila on fyysisesti esteetön

    Rakennuksessa on hissi

    Julkisen liikenteen saavutettavissa

    Autolla saapuminen ja liikkumisesteisen pysäköinti huomioitu
    Oville on rampit.

    Kiinteistössä on autojen sähkölatausmahdollisuus.

    Tilassa noudatetaan turvallisemman tilan periaatteita.
    Palvelun kielet toimipaikassa
    Finnish,
    English,
    Swedish
    Time additional info
    You can start participating in the service at any time.
    Weekday and time
    To be agreed upon