4 month remote internship in German company by Dilyara Kenzhebayeva

I had a plan to get practical training in marketing for my second year of studies. I got an opportunity to be a marketing intern in IT company “Narwhal Data Solutions” based in Berlin. Narwhal Data Solutions is a Big Data and Business Intelligence consultancy. They build data infrastructure, either on-premise or in the cloud, […]

Summer in the Russian estate by Alina Semeniachenko

This summer I worked on OOO”Gorizont” in Russia. I usually spent all my summertime working here since 16 years old. Usually, I worked as an administrator or waiter. But summer 2020 was like a new stage in my working experience. I start applying knowledge that I got in JAMK. This is a holiday camp located […]

My experience as an international trainee at Valmet by Kasimir Jolkkonen

I had a great opportunity to do my internship at Valmet after my second year at JAMK as a customer service specialist trainee. Valmet has a very long history in Finland as the name Valmet was first established in the 1940s. Valmet then manufactured products as the war reparations for the Soviet Union but soon […]

Customer Service Experience at SOL Palvelut Oy by Irina Momot

Couple of years back I worked in Saint-Petersburg’s office of one Finnish company, operating in nuclear industry. I had a chance to sneak a peek at the Finnish corporate culture. And when I got a practical training position in SOL Palvelut Oy, which is fully Finland-based, I felt excited about new opportunities to get engaged […]

What to Expect from Customer Service by Santeri Pakarinen

As my first full-time job I was hired by Rainmaker to do customer service. Posti had outsourced their customer service to this company and as such my duties were centered around tracking parcels. The first couple weeks were a well-paced introduction that mainly served to introduce us to the tools and processes. I saw it […]

My internship at Goldsun Media Group Vietnam by Linh Luong

I had a great chance to work as Salesperson in one of the biggest Advertising and Communications companies in Vietnam. Based on audience-centric approach, Goldsun is committed to being a leading, reliable and effective communication service provider in Vietnam. With rapid development speed, Goldsun Media is the company that owns the largest indoor and outdoor […]

Being an entry-level intern at a clothing store: OOTD by Lilibeth Borges

The reason I chose OOTD for my practical training place was because it stood out to me as a company. I happened to encounter OOTD inside Jyväskylä’s Torikeskus, and for that I’m very grateful. What attracted me about it was the fact that it was a plus-size only store that even had a secondhand section […]

Being a marketing manager in AIESEC during the pandemic by Vladislav Gomankov

AIESEC is the international student-run organisation, which was found after the WW 2 to unite European countries through international volunteer programmes. The main goal of the organisation is to implement intercultural exchange of students to show them the difference of the cultures and people. For me personally, AIESEC became a place of working and studying […]

Being part of Finnish-based event team in Yläkaupungin Yö Ry by Anna Zhuravleva

By the time I have started my practical training in Yläkaupungin Yö I have already had an experience of working in the Finnish-based association. Nevertheless, it has opened for me a lot of new horizons and abilities. My internship in this association have also shown me that there is always room for improvements and helped […]

Doing a Marketing and Communications for a Saas Business during pandemic by Lotta Lehtinen

I completed my practical training at EnerKey. I did the practical training remotely, but possibly because EnerKey is a SaaS company and were experienced having trainees, they made my training truly an educational experience and were well equipped for working remotely. I was offered an opportunity to complete various relevant courses from HubSpot academy, Google Digital Garage and Hootsuite Academy that all contributed well to my learning experience and are valuable to me going forward. Alongside the courses I started […]