Last modified 15.3.2011 at 13:17

After studies everyone needs a job

Text: Annika Lamberg Photos:Milan Kolarovic

When choosing the study field and degree programme decisions are made on different basis. For many it is important to know how easy or hard it is to get a job after graduating.

Most likely graduates from international degree programmes get a job through the same routes as the students of the Finnish-instructed degree programmes.

- Many of them stay in Oulu and Northern Finland, some move to the growth areas in Southern Finland and some get a job abroad, tells Jyrki Holappa.

Jyrki who is the Head of the Degree Programme in International Business tells that the current employment situation of the graduates from his programme is relatively good. Lately Jyrki has been investing lot of time in promoting the programme towards the companies and working life. Also the media has been approached in the matter.

- We are actively bringing it up that the graduates are an unquestionable resource for the companies that are becoming or are already international, Jyrki assures.

Activity is the key word

Jyrki tells that in Oulu UAS School of Business and Information Management there has been discussions about how students’ readiness for applying a job can be improved. In the future there might be a course in applying a job. At the end of the day it is up to the students’ own activity if he or she is going to be employed. You have to be able to sell and market your own know-how yourself Jyrki reminds.

- Nobody will come and pick you up from the sofa at home to a job.

Every year Oulu University of Applied Sciences sends an employment query to the graduating students. 68 % of the graduates of the whole Oulu University of Applied Sciences were employed immediately after graduation in 2006. By the graduates’ own estimation, 53,2 % of them got a job corresponding to their education.

Traineeship is important

A significant part of the graduates will get a job from a company or organisation where one has done his practical training or the Bachelor’s Thesis. It is worth of investing into the relationships to the working life during the studies.

Jyrki thinks that in the future employees will definitely be recruited From Finland and the Scandinavia. Good news for the international degree programme students is that the companies will continue to internationalise strongly.

- At the moment the pace in internationalisation is enormous. For example, for many new Hi-Tech companies Finnish markets are too small already at the start of the business, Jyrki states.