Info about job seeking 2011 – get your tips for job-seeking and international traineeships

Date: Thursday 17 March at 13.00-15.00
Place: Exactum, Auditorium B123

Registration: by 15 March 2011 with the e-form:
https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/26473/lomake.html

Work experience gained while studying is an important part of your degree. Applying for a job means marketing yourself and your skills to convince employers of your worth. Your application is your way to get a job interview, so it has to make the employer believe that you are the one who can offer the skills they need. It is a challenge to write a good and selling application. This info talk will give you advice and tips on efficient job application.

Work experience abroad will improve your chances of finding a job after taking your degree. It is a good idea to accept an interesting traineeship abroad, even if the pay is not good or there is no pay at all, as it is possible to apply for a grant for most traineeships. Come and see how to find the most interesting traineeships abroad and what kind of grant you could apply for.

13.00-13.40 Info about job seeking
Eric Carver, Career services at the University of Helsinki

What skills do you need for your working life?
Effective job-application strategies
A traditional application or an open one?
A short introduction to application documents

13.40-14.00 International traineeships
Minka Hietanen, Career services at the University of Helsinki

A traineeship abroad – how do I succeed?
How to apply for Cimo traineeships
How to augment the travelling budget – grants for international
traineeships

14.00-15.00 Pick job-application tips for your own field in the
department's job info

Nibbles

The programme will continue at the departments in Chemicum, Exactum and
Physicum

THE ALUMNI EVENING PROGRAMME AT THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE  (no registration)

17.30-20* (the hall on the 2nd floor): Posters and demos in the 2nd-floor
hall on research and teaching carried out at the department and HIIT

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*18:00-18:30 (D234):* Speed-recruiting corner: selected alumni members will give three-minute elevator pitches explaining why their company is the best option as a workplace for our students. We have confirmed speakers from Nixu, Codebakers, Applifier, Sininen Meteoriitti Oy, Digital Chocolate, Avanade, Haaga-Helia, ...

*19:00*(D234): Book launch of the history of the Department of Computer
Science
(Jukka Paakki)

Wine and cheese is served during the evening!

For more details on the programme after 16.00, please see
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/tapahtumat/61661
The alumni evening programme in auditorium A111 at 16-17.30 is intended only for those who have signed up for the evening, but others can watch the programme online in auditorium B123.

We hope to see you there!