Mentoring programmes at Tampere University

The International Talents’ Mentoring Programme is aimed at international degree students at Tampere Universities and other international talents who have graduated from studies somewhere else, moved to Tampere and are looking to start their careers here.

The International Talents Programme is under construction this year and will not be organized during the study year 2022-2023. The earliest possible date to apply for the programme again will be in the fall of 2023.

The International Talents´ Mentoring Programme aims to introduce mentees to the nuances of Finnish work culture, help them expand their professional networks, improve the mentees’ job-hunting skills and enable them to share their international experiences with the mentors. It can also pave the way for further internationalization within the mentor’s organization.

Mentoring an international talent offers an easy way to develop intercultural competence and expertise in the global work markets. The mentoring programme gives mentors the opportunity to build contacts and develop mentoring skills through practical experience.

Further information
Mariska Roelofs 
firstname.lastname [at] tuni.fi

Mentoring Programme is part of the Hidden Gems activities for spouses. Hidden Gems initiative offers a variety of integration and relocation services, such as peer support groups. In addition, we organise a career mentoring programme.

Hidden Gems initiative supports dual-career couples, namely international spouses of researchers working at Tampere Universities and spouses of employees working in international companies in Tampere region. The spouses have followed their partners to Tampere and wish to pursue and re-start their careers in the region. The spouses may be from different countries and career backgrounds.

Our mentors can:

• Introduce mentees to the nuances of Finnish work culture
• Help mentees expand their professional networks
• Improve the mentees’ job hunting skills
• Enable mentees to share their international experiences with the mentors.
• Pave the way for further internationalisation within the mentor’s organisation.

The mentors will be paired with one or two mentees for a duration of three-four months.

Group meetings

In the Mentoring Programme for Hidden Gems Spouses we organise three group meetings: an orientation and kick-off meeting, a mid-programme meeting, and a wrap-up meeting.

Becoming a mentor

In academic year 2022-23 we will focus on other activities, such as peer support groups. We will inform about the plans for future Mentoring Programmes on this website.

Confidentiality is the core of the mentoring relationship and the programme itself. In the Hidden Gems mentor online application form we ask your contact information and about your motivation as well as about your expectations for the mentoring process. The application information will be used to match the mentoring pairs as well as possible.

We will begin processing the applications as soon as they arrive and we will contact all applicants in the end of the application period. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that we will find a mentor for each applicant or a mentee for every mentor candidate.

Your information will be used for the mentoring programme only. In order to encourage networking, the contact details and short professional profiles of those approved to the Hidden Gems mentoring programme can be shared with all other participants.

Further information
Senior Specialist Raisa Suominen
hiddengems [at] tuni.fi
+358 40 190 1242
 

Mentoring Programme for Hidden Gems spouses aims at introducing the international talents with the features of the Finnish working life. Mentoring offers guidance and support in building professional networks and developing career planning skills. Mentor and mentee can also share their international experiences with each other.

Mentoring programme is aimed for doctoral researchers nearing the end of their studies and postdoctoral researchers who are interested in getting guidance and support to their career perspectives and planning, professional development, personal growth and in enhancing their networks.

We are looking for mentors who:

• are willing to share their experience and competence
• are interested in supporting the mentees learning and reflection
• have a doctoral degree

We are looking for mentors working in different sectors of working life both outside and within academia. The mentees have diverse backgrounds and plans, so your field and work experience might be exactly something one of the mentees is looking for! Because the programme will be organised virtually, it is also suitable for mentors who are working and living abroad.

Another aim in the programme is to enhance cooperation between the academic world and other organizations in a.o. the industry and public sector and create strong networks.

The mentoring pairs are formed based on common factors. The commonalities may include, for example, the mentor's career choices and the mentee’s career aspirations, similar fields, shared skills, or other interests. Mentoring takes place on a voluntary basis.

The programme helped me to understand my own skills better, reflect on my own career and expand my network by connecting to other mentors and mentees. During the group meetings, I gained many valuable resources on transferable skills and ideas on how to mentor a junior researcher successfully.

Mentor Jessica de Bloom, Academy Research Fellow, Tampere University

Apply now as mentor

Next Mentoring Programme for Doctoral Researchers will take place in starting from January 2023.

The 6 months long programme consists of individual meetings (about 4-5) with your mentee and group meetings. Group meetings are conducted in English and are held virtually in zoom.

Programme schedule for group meetings:

• Thu 19 January 2023 at 17.00-18.30 (virtual event in zoom)
• Thu 8 June 2023 at 17.00-19.00 (hybrid event in Tampere and zoom)

Application period is open untill 27 November

Further information
HR Specialist Kaisa-Riikka Salomaa
firstname.lastname [at] tuni.fi
+358 50 531 0571