If you took a course that is necessary for your future career and for some reason you realized that this subject is given to you with difficulty, due to some circumstances, do not rush to drop it, but rather focus on the theory and highlight the most incomprehensible to you, in order to deal with…
Continue readingHospitality Internship – Hanoi Daewoo Hotel
Working as a PR intern at Hanoi Daewoo Hotel was an incredible experience. It truly was rewarding. I got the chance to gain a real first-hand insight into the hospitality industry and hotel sector in particular. Especially for Hanoi Daewoo Hotel which is not an international chain like Marriot or Hilton, it was interesting to…
Continue readingDiving into the growth company scene in Finland
Crossing paths with Aava & Bang has been the best thing that’s happened to my professional career so far. Not that mine is that impressive yet anyways since I’m only in the verge of graduating, but the internship definitely kick-started things. In the fall of 2017, I applied for a Kasvu Open intern position at…
Continue readingPractical training back home
When thinking of doing practical training, many consider that it is much better to choose any country rather then your homecountry, as the assumtions are that you will get more experience abroad rather then in the culture you grown up in. However, my experience showed it differently. After studying abroad, in JAMK, my homecountry culture…
Continue readingexperience in MusicInfo, Happy to finish stress or sad to leave such great place?
MY Name is Noamane Chakir, a 23 years old student in Jamk IB program. i got a practical training opportunity at MusicInfo, a music distribution company that distributes music in China as they do not have social media platforms used in most of the world s countries, such as YouTube, Facebook, Spotify, etc. so we…
Continue readingPractical training at Fonecta
During summer of 2017, I was employed at a company called Fonecta. I worked as a customer service representative at their office in Pori, Western Finland. My job was to assist with customers calling to the call-centre with any question or problem they had. These customer contacts often ranged from the most typical questions of asking…
Continue readingRewriting the script for event networking
My practical training began as a copywriter for Brella Oy, a SaaS company located here in Jyväskylä. They provide a simple networking tool for events. I had no real experience in either copywriting nor in the SaaS field, but I was given a chance regardless. Being a native English speaker has its perks at times….
Continue reading3 months in the legal industry – Brussels
I got some internship offers back in December 2018, all of them were in the Marketing sector, but this offer intrigued me most. Getting an offer from a legal industry company was something I did not expect at all, even though my childhood dream job was to become a lawyer (not anymore..). So, I decided…
Continue readingCanada Exchange Study Experience
My name is Papy NKUNDA and you can also call me the happy man. I’m studying International Business at JAMK University of Applied Sciences, and I just finished my exchane period of study in Canada, I´ve been back for about 3 weeks now. We arrived save and the overall I came back with temperature +18…
Continue reading4 Months of Legal Tech in London
I did my IB practical training in London. I worked for Lexoo, a legal tech startup that has been up and running for a few years now. My internship lasted for four months, I got to work right next to the Silicon Roundabout on Old Street which is known as the home of many big…
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