Working in Finland (5 cr)
Code: YH00CB63-3001
General information
Enrollment
01.08.2024 - 01.05.2025
Timing
26.08.2024 - 19.05.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Mode of delivery
Face-to-face
Unit
School of Business
Campus
Main Campus
Teaching languages
- English
Seats
0 - 30
Degree programmes
- Master's Degree Programme in International Business Management
Teachers
- Murat Akpinar
Teacher in charge
Murat Akpinar
Groups
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YBB24S1Master of Business Administration, DP in International Business Management
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YBB23S1Master of Business Administration, DP in International Business Management
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YHS22S1Master's Degree Programme in Sport Business Management
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YHS21S1Master's Degree Programme in Sport Business Management
Objective
Working in Finland is a practical training for foreign students at a company in Finland. It aims to introduce you, as a foreign student, to the work environment in Finland. It is recommended that the content of the practical training suits your career goals and develops your target competences.
The competences to be developed are operating in a workplace, ethics, and internationality and multiculturalism.
Operating in a workplace:
You interact constructively in teamwork at the workplace. You are result-oriented and able to overcome obstacles at the workplace.
Ethics:
You take responsibility for your own actions and their consequences and reflect on them in accordance with ethical principles and values.
Internationality and multiculturalism:
You operate effectively in international and multicultural work environments.
Content
The content of the practical training should suit your career goals and develop your target competences. You need to present the content of the practical training to the course teacher and seek the teacher's approval in advance. You need to submit a practical training contract and a practical training report.
Oppimateriaali ja suositeltava kirjallisuus
There is no course literature.
Teaching methods
On-the-job learning at the practical training workplace in Finland.
Employer connections
This is an internship for foreign students for four weeks at a company in Finland. You will find your internship places in Finland according to your career objectives. You will make a contract with the internship place after the content of your internship is approved by the course teacher.
Exam schedules
There is no exam. You need to submit the practical training contract and the practical training report.
International connections
This course is aimed at you as foreign degree students to familiarize you with the work life in Finland.
Vaihtoehtoiset suoritustavat
You have the right to apply for recognition of prior learning for this course if you, as a foreigner, have prior work experience in Finland.
Student workload
Finding a practical training place in Finland 12 hours
Practical training 120 hours
Practical training report 3 hours
Content scheduling
There is no scheduled contact session of the course. You will interact with the teacher virtually in consideration of your practical training.
Further information
The assessment will be based on the practical training report.
Evaluation scale
Pass/Fail
Assessment criteria, approved/failed
You interact constructively in teamwork at the workplace. You are result-oriented and able to overcome obstacles at the workplace. You take responsibility for your own actions and their consequences and reflect on them in accordance with ethical principles and values. You operate effectively in international and multicultural work environments.
Qualifications
There are no prerequisites.
Further information
The duration of the practical training is expected to be four weeks.