Networking and Career Design

Learning objectives

After having completed this course or a corresponding course, the student:
- has increased self-awareness and developed career planning skills
-has created a personal career design portfolio with strengths, values and ideas for alternative career paths and experiments
- understands the fundamentals of the Finnish labour market?
- has learnt effective networking techniques and started to build a professional network
- has tools and skills for lifelong career design and wellbeing

This course integrates networking principles with career planning strategies. Students will explore both theoretical concepts and practical techniques to enhance their employability and design a successful career path.

By the end of this course, students will have honed their networking skills, created a career design aligned with their aspirations, and established valuable professional connections.

Starting level and linkage with other courses

No prerequisites.

Implementation methods, demonstration and Work&Study

Execution methods –
This course is implemented in contact mode and includes workshops on campus with practical exercises, networking events with industry experts, a do-good project/voluntary work and creating a career design portfolio.

Assessment criteria - grade 1

When the implementation type of the course is CONTACT, ONLINE or BLENDED it is required that the student is present during those teaching hours that are marked in the study schedule. If you are absent more than 25 %, your grade will be lowered by one. If you are absent more than 50 %, the course is failed.

Student:

• participates in networking events and the project
• reflects on networking activities in the career design portfolio according to the instructions
• submits a career action plan

Assessment criteria - grade 3

Student:
• participates actively in networking events, project and class discussions
• reflects thorougly on networking activities in the career design portfolio with some evidence of networking efforts
• can identify own strengths and areas for development very well and submits a well thought out career action plan in the career design portfolio

Assessment criteria - grade 5

Student

• participates proactively in networking events, project and contributes significantly to class discussions
• is able to critically reflect on networking activities and efforts and lessons learnt in the career design portfolio
• can identify and reflect on own strengths and areas for development in a professional way and submits an analytical and creative career action plan and development strategy to enter the Finnish labour market