The Career Cast – Finland Edition
The Career Cast - Finland Edition
Podcast Description
Welcome to "The Career Cast - Finland Edition": a podcast to help you hack the world of job search and careers in Finland. Listen to insights and advice from career coaches, recruiters, international talents who made it in Finland, and other experts. If you are struggling to get a job or you feel stuck in your current position, join us to get concrete tips on how to land your next dream job.
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The podcast covers essential topics related to job searching such as interview techniques, resume writing, and networking strategies. Specific episodes include a two-part series on how to ace job interviews, discussions on crafting effective cover letters, and insights into charming recruiters through understanding ATS systems. The focus is on actionable advice tailored to the unique nuances of the Finnish job market.

Welcome to “The Career Cast – Finland Edition”: a podcast to help you hack the world of job search and careers in Finland. Listen to insights and advice from career coaches, recruiters, international talents who made it in Finland, and other experts. If you are struggling to get a job or you feel stuck in your current position, join us to get concrete tips on how to land your next dream job.
In this 23rd episode of the Career Cast – Finland Edition, we talked with Astrid Puumala – Thévenet, Development Manager for Immigration at City of Espoo.
This first part of our conversation with Astrid covers her own Finnish learning journey and her experience of working in a Finnish work environment.
Among the topics:
– How long it took to learn Finnish and what helped her
– What does fluency really mean and how to work with the our idea of it
– How multilanguage environemnts work and how to adjust to them
– How to deal with spoken language vs formal language in a workplace
The second part of the episode will be released next week and will include a deeper conversation on the need for building work environments where internationals professionals who are learning Finnish can thrive and progress. It will also cover how to understand our own Finnish skills and decide what jobs are worth pursuing, and how to interpret language requirements in job advertisements.

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