Career Webinars
Career Webinars provide information and tips to support your studies and career path in Finland. The webinars are open to anyone interested in the topic, but they are primarily designed for those at the beginning of their career journey.
Topics of Career Webinars
In Career Webinars, you will get information and tips on:
- planning your career in Finland
- developing your job searching skills for Finnish job market
- how to apply to higher education in Finland
- options to study in Finland
The topics vary in each webinar. You can also suggest a topic for future sessions in the form below.
Practicalities and instructions
- Cost: free of charge
- Sign up in advance: register via the registration link of the webinar in question
- Duration: 1-2h depending on the webinar
- Language: Finnish or English
- Speakers: Metropolia's Career Coaches specialised in the topics, sometimes also visiting speakers
- Location: online, the link will be sent to registered participants before the event
- Materials: the sessions are not recorded, but registered participants will receive the presentation material by e-mail after the webinar. By taking part you may ask questions and hear answers.
Upcoming Career Webinars
We’re currently planning our next series of webinars.
The full schedule of upcoming webinars will be published here in August 2026.
Please check back then for topics, dates, and registration details.
In the meantime, we’d love your input.
Please use the form on this page to suggest topics you’d like us to cover in future webinars.
Tell us your webinar wishes
Have you missed some of our previous webinars or wish you could attend your favorite session again? We want to hear from you!
Metropolia’s career services have organized a variety of career and study-related webinars in the past. We’re now planning our next program and would love your input. Let us know which topics you would like us to organize again, or suggest a new topic!
Below the questionnaire, you can see the list of our past webinars. Please also let us know in which language you prefer to participate (Finnish, English).
Thank you for your feedback!
Previously held Career Webinars
We have organized a diverse selection of webinars in English, Finnish, and Ukrainian. Currently, there are no webinars available in Ukrainian. Here are the topics we have covered so far:
In English
- Job Interviews – Boost Your Skills and Confidence
- Succeed in Job Interviews – Boost Your Skills and Confidence
- How to Write an Effective Cover Letter
- Effective Cover Letters – Tips on How to Get Noticed
- CV Crafting for the Finnish Job Market
- Crafting your CV for the Finnish Job Market with Maria Pahl
- Discover Your Skills – The Key to a Successful Job Search
- Job Search Strategies for the Hidden Job Market
- Hidden Job Market Strategies: Proactive Job Hunting in Finland
- Job Search Strategies and Proactive Job Hunting in Finland
- LinkedIn Basics – Build Your Professional Presence
- Apply to Finland’s Bachelor’s and/or Master’s programmes in English
- Applying to Finland’s higher education programmes in English
- Get Ready for Summer Job Search in Finland
- Lessons learnt while building a new career in Finland
- Cold Contacting and the Hidden Job Market
- Panel Discussions and Q&A with Admissions/HR experts
- TOKASA Nursing, Bachelor’s Degree (aimed at immigrants)
In Finnish
- Applying to Finnish-taught higher education programs in joint application processes
- Recognizing your skills – The key to successful job hunting
- Applying for summer jobs at the right time
- Perfecting your CV and application
- Supplementary studies and alternative pathways to becoming a higher education student in Finland
- Tips for the joint application: apply for studies starting in autumn
- Gaining work experience from organizations: apply to become a society orientation trainer
- Applying for degree studies at Finnish higher education institutions in the autumn joint application
- Preparatory training for immigrants for Metropolia’s higher education studies
In Ukrainian and Finnish
- Employment opportunities in Finland (EDUFI project)
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Services to immigrants
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Career Guidance for immigrants
A one-to-one discussion with a Career Coach helps you to map your competences and identify suitable study and career paths in Finland.
Recognition of competence
How can you get started with recognising your key competences? Metropolia also provides recognition of competence by a professional in selected fields of study and for limited target groups.
Higher education preparatory programme for immigrants
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Study opportunities and developing competence
Are you interested to study Finnish or to develop your field-specific competence? Metropolia offers you a wide range of options from individual courses to tailored programmes and full degrees.
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