Every year, approximately 1,000 University of Helsinki students embark on a compulsory or elective traineeship as part of their studies. This means that there is certainly demand for traineeship placements!

When you hire a student as a trainee, you will gain access to the latest research information from the University in addition to a valuable employee. Many employers go on to hire their trainees for longer contracts.

As the University offers the broadest range of education in Finland, our students are suitable for many different types of traineeship duties. Trainees can, for example, perform duties related to marketing and communications, such as social media communications, website development, content planning, content production or event communications. The trainee can also draft reports, questionnaires or other research and projects that can benefit your organisation.

Trainees must be assigned duties that enable them to apply the knowledge and skills they have gained during their studies. Primarly a traineeship is one of the first opportunities for a student to utilize the expertise gained in studies and it is important to acknowledge this in the recruitment process. The trainees duties must provide an opportunity for learning new things.

You can advertise a traineeship placement in the JobTeaser service. For more on JobTeaser, visit the Aarresaari website.

Things to remember when advertising a traineeship

• The average duration of a traineeship is three months.
• We will not publish advertisements for unpaid traineeships. We reserve the right to not publish advertisements for positions that are not suitable for our students. Read our publication terms.
• Design the best possible traineeship advertisement. Traineeships may also be offered to international students. If you would like to target international students, write the advert in English. See here tips tips on writing an advert.
• The employer must assign a supervisor for the trainee to support the trainee’s successful traineeship. See tips for trainee supervision.
• The trainee’s salary for full-time employment must meet the minimum wage under the work requirement set by Kela. The University of Helsinki supports its students in finding paid traineeships with a traineeship subsidy system.

Read more:

Instructions for recruiting and supervising trainees

From trainee to permanent employee

Trainees bring fresh skills to the professional community

Instructions for submitting an advert (Aarresaari.net)

The JobTeaser job portal provides a forum for reaching University of Helsinki students and graduates seeking employment in their field. For students, we particularly welcome adverts for summer work, part-time work that can be completed alongside studies or short-term substitute positions. Employees for more challenging tasks can be found from among our graduates.

• With a single advert, you can target the University of Helsinki exclusively or up to eight other Finnish universities.
• If you want to reach the international experts at the University of Helsinki, write your advert in English. The University of Helsinki has approximately 2,000 international students.
• A carefully drafted advert draws more applicants. Read tips on how to create a advertisement on the Aarresaari webiste.
• We will not publish adverts for jobs that are unsuitable for our students in terms of their field or otherwise. Read our publication terms.

Substitute positions and cooperation with student organisations

If you are interested in hiring a University of Helsinki student for a substitute position, student organisations are a good point of contact.

 Information on substitute positions and student organisations can be found here:

• The science education website for finding a substitute teacher (in Finnish)
• Subject-specific and faculty organisations under the Student Union of the University of Helsinki

Research and survey projects are excellent opportunities for commissioning a master’s thesis. For the student, the master’s thesis demonstrates their learning and forms a coherent whole with a set research question, goal, scope and schedule.

Thesis cooperation is available in all of the University’s fields of education and partners can be found from a wide variety of employer sectors.

Advertise a topic for a commissioned master’s thesis on JobTeaser. Students will contact you directly if they are interested in the topic and it suits their studies. The student will arrange approval from the degree programme for both the thesis topic and the commission.

Note! The University of Helsinki has different practices for doing a commissioned Master's thesis. Career Services will explore these during the fall of 2021, meaning the guidelines are under construction.The university may also be a party to the agreement.

The University of Helsinki does not have a system for deeds of donation or a foundation that could fund a commissioned master’s thesis.

Instructions for posting an advertisement can be found on the Aarresaari website.

Become a mentor for an international student

Does your organisation need international expertise, but you don’t know where to start looking? Meet the University of Helsinki’s young international experts through the HelsinkiUNI International Talent Programme (HITP) and find your trainee, summer employee or future team member.

What is the HelsinkiUNI International Talent Programme?

• A six-month mentoring programme to connect companies with international students. The intention is to help students build networks in the Finnish labour market and business sector.  
• An excellent way to build a positive employer brand among students or experiment with internationalisation. A multicultural staff is a creative staff! 
• Ideally, HITP will generate long-term cooperation. However, the programme implies no further commitment from the company.

Recruit an international student

Is your organisation looking to recruit an international expert right now? Do you need someone with skills in a specific language or other special abilities that can help expand your organisation’s international horizons?

The University of Helsinki’s international degree programmes produce many different kinds of expertise. Career Services can help you find out whether one of the students registered in our JobTeaser job portal has the skills you need.

The same conditions apply to posting advertisements on JobTeaser as do to posting job or traineeship positions on any University of Helsinki platform. The position must be suitable for our students specifically. Our goal is to help companies and organisations become more international, but also to promote the employment of our international students.

Contact Career Services and tell us what kind of expert you are looking for! Together we can see if we can help you with your recruitment process.

If this sounds interesting, contact Career Services.

And also take a look at the Intercultural Toolkit -platform for support on recruiting an international talent: Intercultural Toolkit.

Are you interested in increasing your visibility among University of Helsinki’s students and recent graduates? An employer profile in the JobTeaser job portal can be your 24/7 showcase!

With a JobTeaser profile, you can introduce your organisation, highlight its values and culture and advertise open positions or traineeship opportunities. You can include videos to describe your operations or add links to guide students to your own content.  

Select from two profile types

• restricted employer profile, including the tabs About us and Jobs. See the Meltwater company profile.     
• extensive company profile, with the opportunity to market events, publish news and provide more information about your teams in addition to the above. See the JobTeaser company profile.      

Make your organisation interesting as an employer

• Students want jobs that have meaning. Highlight your mission and corporate culture!
• Use videos and images to illustrate your texts.    
• Tell stories and provide examples of how your organisation cares for its employees or is flexible.    
• Highlight the community and benefits of your organisation. Students are often interested in the ability to work remotely or with flexible hours.  

Your profile doesn’t have to include everything about your organisation, you can also add links to your website.  

An employer profile in the University of Helsinki’s JobTeaser service is free of charge. If you are interested in gaining visibility in several universities and institutions of higher education with the same profile, JobTeaser provides this service for a fee.  

At the University of Helsinki, user numbers for JobTeaser are steadily increasing, with more than 7,000 students or alumni registered at the time of writing (16 March 2021).

Contact Career Services

If you are interested in creating an employer profile, please contact Career Services!

We can survey the needs of your organisation and tell you more about employer profiles.