Career readiness courses
Career coaching and working life skills for people preparing for work: applications, interviews, networking, digital skills and self-employment. Offered through employment services, open universities and employers.
6 Skills courses · 6 Expert workshops
Skills courses
Extensive self-paced courses for finding work and for working life. Each ends in something the learner can use, such as an application package, a networking plan or a business plan.
- 6 courses
- About 8 h each
- Quoted on request
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Job Applications: CV, Cover Letter and Online Profile
Develops skills in reading a job ad for its real requirements, turning experience into evidence of skills, and writing a targeted CV, cover letter and online profile for each application. View course -
Job Interviews: From Preparation to Follow-Up
Develops skills in preparing for job interviews, building a bank of evidence stories, answering behavioral and difficult questions, handling video and recorded formats, and following up. View course -
Networking and Personal Branding: Finding Your Next Job
Develops skills in mapping and growing a professional network, reaching out to contacts and employers, running informational interviews, and finding jobs that are never advertised. View course -
Everyday Digital Skills: Email, Meetings and Online Safety
Develops skills in the everyday digital tasks of working life: files, work email, video meetings, shared documents, online services and applications, and staying safe online. View course -
Freelancing and Light Entrepreneurship: Selling Your Skills
Develops skills in working as a self-employed professional: turning a skill into a service offer, pricing work, finding first clients, agreeing terms in writing and invoicing. View course -
Starting a Business: From Idea to Launch
Develops skills in testing a business idea with real customers, building a business model, calculating costs and a first-year budget, and writing a business plan ready for funding. View course
Expert workshops
Live, practitioner-led workshops that apply one Skills course to the group’s own applications, contacts and plans in a half-day, in English or Finnish. One workshop per Skills course.
- 6 workshops
- A half-day (3.5 h) each
- Priced per workshop, quoted on inquiry
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CV Clinic: Tailor a CV and Cover Letter to One Real Job Ad
A half-day expert workshop where each participant tailors a CV and a cover letter to one real job ad, with feedback from a peer and the facilitator. -
Interview Lab: Practice Interviews with Live Feedback
A half-day expert workshop where participants prepare answers from their own experience and practice job interviews in rounds, as candidate, interviewer and observer, with live feedback on every answer. Nothing is recorded. -
Networking Lab: From Contacts to Job Leads
A half-day expert workshop where participants map the contacts they already have, find the people closest to the jobs they want, and write their first outreach messages and the questions for an informational interview. -
Digital Workday Lab: The Tasks Every Job Expects
A half-day, in-person workshop where participants practice the digital tasks every job now expects on their own devices: email with attachments, meeting invitations and video calls, shared documents and a secure sign-in. -
First Client Clinic: Turn Your Skill into a Service People Buy
A half-day expert workshop where participants turn a skill they already have into a clear service, set its prices and write a proposal for a first client. -
Business Plan Clinic: Test Your Idea Before You Launch
A half-day expert workshop where participants put their business idea to the test before they launch: who the customer is, what makes the idea different and whether the numbers add up.
