Customer Service Agent at Kielo Office Solutions Oy by Petchrada Virkilä

I completed my practical training at Kielo Office Solutions Ltd. Kielo is a real estate company founded in October 2017. The company operates in the real estate industry and leases full-service business premises to companies in the Jyväskylä central area. The business premises are located in Lutakko, Ylistönmäki and Mattilanniemi. What sets Kielo apart from […]

As an office assistant in a castle by Minna Vanhanen

In the picture is my workplace, a pink castle by the lake in Jyväskylä. My workstation was on the second floor near the window where I could see sunrises and sunsets on the lake. Pretty dreamy. The building is Schauman Castle in Lutakko and it was completed in 1924 as the residence of the director […]

Versatile work tasks around HR and beyond by Essi Rohula

There it was! After a long search and numerous applications, finally, the perfect place for my practical training. 4H Finland’s associations around Central Finland were looking for interns. I contacted the 4H association of the Jyväskylä region and its operative manager. And in no time, we had already written a practical training agreement. 4H Finland […]

Blog text by Denis Polyakov

Hi everyone! My name is Denis Polyakov, I am a 5th year student at JAMK, IB. My specialization is Sport Management so I needed to find a practical training in sport industry. As I am keen on football, I had decided to find a place in this kind of sport. I thought that it would […]

Working in business development and marketing at Tridea Oy by Benjamin Leary

I started my internship at Tridea Oy some 5 months ago now originally just withinmarket research roles which then started to include the creation of marketing materials, amarketing plan and the beginning of building sales pipelines and partner relationships. Essentially, the company provides solutions to make it easy for small and medium sizedcompany managers to […]

An Internship At a Bridal Store by Lilibeth Borges

I started my internship at a bridal store, Wedding Garage, in December of 2020. I chose this company as my internship place not only because I had prior experience being an intern at a clothing store, but also because this company matched one of my most important values: inclusivity for all sizes. The store owner […]

My blog about practical work in Altek by Daniil Semenov

In October 2020, I started looking for a practical job to gain experience, credits and new connections. I had been looking for an internship in Finland for a long time, but unfortunately I never got it, so my search circle narrowed down to my native country – Russia. I understood that practice was needed primarily […]

From Finland to The Netherlands for a Creative Agency life by IB student

Last winter I had a chance to do my traineeship with a job offer afterwards in a leading creative agency in Rotterdam. It was a long process to find internship or traineeship as my focus was specifically on the Netherlands due to my very memorable exchange in Utrecht the year before. My exchange year helped […]