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Working life and career planning

On this page you can find information and support services for career planning during your studies. It helps you getting familiar with working life and prepares you for the time after graduation. Most of the target content can be found at the Students´ Handbook.

 

Here you can find info on:

  • How to plan your career and where to find support services
  • Internships and specific degree programme guidelines for internships
  • Job, internship and thesis project ads for students and graduates (JobTeaser)
  • Study & Stay services for international students at TAMK

Check out our JobTeaser career platform

On JobTeaser platform, you can find advertisements for jobs and internships as well as information on interesting employers both in Finland and all over Europe. You can also check out upcoming career events that might interest you. Read more about JobTeaser and take advantage of its many possibilities!

Explore and log in to JobTeaser

Career planning

Career planning

In the students handbook you will find information to support your career planning and working life considerations. Also check out JobTeaser's UP Career tips!

More about career planning during your studies

Career workshops and lectures

During your studies you can participate lectures and workshops on career planning that will support your career palnning and job hunting.

Find out more about up-coming workshops

Career counselling

You can book a time for a personal counselling session with a career counsellor to discuss, for instance, competence recognition, career choices or internship possibilities.

Book a time for counselling

Internships

Practices on internship

An internship enables you to apply the knowledge you’ve gained in your studies into concrete working life. Besides work experience, an internship gives you valuable insight on working life practicalities and skills needed at modern day workplace.

Internships as part of your studies

Practices on internships in different degree programmes

The practices on how and when to apply for an internship vary among the different degree programmes – check here what the specifics for your degree programme are.

Internships in different programmes

Looking for an internship placement

How to find an internship that fits you? When applying for an internship, it’s good to give some thought on your own goals and keep an open mind.

How to find an internship placement

Working life

Recruiting events on campuses

Many general and field specific recruitment fairs are held on the campuses of the Tampere University community throughout the academic year.

Check out interesting career events

Graduates in working life

We monitor the placement of graduates in working life, for example through surveys for alumni. Check out the results of surveys and career tracking.

Where are the graduates employed?

Internationals

Study & Stay

Study & Stay is the University’s programme of activities and services for international degree students. The aim of Study & Stay is to support international students to study, live and work or start a business in the Tampere Area. Study & Stay is part of the International HUB Tampere project.

Read more about the Study & Stay programme

International Talents´Mentoring Programme

The International Talents Mentoring programme brings together international students and other talents and professionals from Finnish working life. For mentees and mentors the programme offers personal growth, networking opportunities and a chance to gain multicultural experiences.

Read more

International House Tampere

International House Tampere is there to help internationals to come and live, work, study, do research or to find new exciting possibilities in Tampere.

International House Tampere

Career Services

Career Services offers career lectures, career workshops and webinars as well as individual career counselling.

The Career Services team publishes open vacancies and internship positions as well as thesis projects for students and graduates, and helps employers find skilled employees and ways to collaborate with students or degree programmes.

Through the career monitoring survey we collect data about the employment of our graduates  and the employment options that are offered.

For staff we offer support with career planning questions and questions related to working life.

To learn more about career planning and jobseeking skills in JobTeaser Career tips. You can also visit Tampere university career planning self study material in Moodle.

You can reach us at careerservices.tamk [at] tuni.fi (careerservices[dot]tamk[at]tuni[dot]fi).