Well-being calendar
Check out the Joint Guidance and Counselling Services' group offerings for the academic year 2024–2025, and join us! The Joint Guidance and Counselling Services offer a wide range of group guidance services related to well-being, study skills and career planning, provided by study psychologists, guidance counsellors, career counsellors and individual arrangements specialists, as well as peer counsellors. Below you will find the group offerings by period. Please note that registration is required for some groups. Detailed links to events and news on the Intranet, with possible registration links, will be updated in the group information throughout the academic year.
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2nd Period
Well-being and study skills
Student's well-being and life skills course (21.10.–8.12., 1 ECTS)
- The lecture 'Introduction to Student's Compass' will be given by study psychologist on Tuesday 22th of October at 14.15–15.00.
Learning Academic Text and Preparing for Exams: Mon 2.12. at 12–14 (Hervanta)
- Lecture will concentrate on memory and reading academic texts. The lecture offers practical tips on making notes and preparing for exams, as well as maintaining your mental alertness for studying. Participants are encouraged to share their own best practices and tips to fellow students.
What motivates me? -workshop: Tue 3.12. at 14–16 (City Centre)
- More details will follow.
Thesis weekend: approximately twice a month in September-December (Hervanta)
Thesis weekend is an intensive weekend to advance your own thesis with your peers. At the Thesis weekend students work on the goals they have set for themselves. The event is intended to support the advancing of the thesis, especially if the student challenges in achieving and scheduling ones own work, combining work/life situation and studies or has a need for peer support.
The weekends are carried out by trained peer tutors. They schedule working time and arrange peer support. Peer tutors do not support the writing of the thesis or in matters related to the content.
When registering, the student reserves the place for the whole weekend and commits to participating on Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday. Thesis weekends are mainly held in Finnish, but you are welcome to participate in the discussions also in English.
Get Stuff Done -study sessions: weekly (online)
Does it feel challenging to grab your books, stay focused or study independently? To support independent studying, the Get Stuff Done! -study sessions will continue in the autumn semester 2024. Open to all students, Tampere University and TAMK will cooperate with Aalto University and University of Helsinki to hold four weekly online meetings.
The Get Stuff Done! sessions utilise the Pomodoro study technique. The sessions last approx. 2 hours, which includes three runs (25 minutes intensive studying, 5 minutes rest). In the sessions, you will study independently with a staff member timing your work and breaks. You can come along to, for example, read for an exam, write your study diary, do research for a thesis or compose an essay.
Puhutaan suomea! –conversation club: weekly (Alternating every other week on the City Centre Campus and every other week on the Hervanta Campus)
- Finnish language conversation club. We offer a relaxed and friendly environment for students of Finnish of all levels, as well as native speakers interested in making international friends and help them practice.
Career planning
Introduction to career planning: Mon 28.10. at 10–12 (online)
Working in Finland and alumni stories: Mon 4.11. at 16–18 & Mon 11.11. at 16–18 (online)
- More details will follow.
Recognize your skills: Tue 12.11. at 14–16 (City Centre)
What are your skills? Can you put them into words easily? What are the professional, general working life and career skills? What skills are important? How do you prioritise what to tell employers? In this Study & Stay workshop we look at identifying your skills and presenting them to an employer in a couple of sentences.
Fill in the registration form by 11 November.
CV and Cover letter: Wed 13.11. at 14–15 (online)
Have you wrecked your brain with what to write on your CV or application/motivation letter? Do you need help tailoring these for a vacancy? Do you want to know what impressions recruiters might get from your documents? In this session we look at CVs and letters in general and share good tips and hints about dos and don’ts.
Job hunting in Finland -lecture: Mon 18.11. at 12.15–13.30 (Hervanta)
- More details will follow.
CV support: Wed 4.12. at 13.30–15.30 (Hervanta)
- More details will follow.