Speed Up Your Career with Alumni - Study guide

Students who have completed this course or have acquired equivalent competence will be able to

- clarify and strengthen their expert identity
- build their professional network
- understand the value of and gather experiential and tacit knowledge in working life
- reflect on their expectations and ambitions in relation to their job roles
- have a better understanding of their future in their work, career and life in general
- define their own learning objectives

The course should be chosen towards the end of the studies or when you are looking for a traineeship or job in your field. Those who have completed their studies the longest and answered the preliminary questionnaire will be selected for the course.

Speed up your career course is delivered through mentoring. The mentoring process involves the student being assigned a personal mentor from an alumnus/alumna, i.e. a previous graduate of Haaga-Helia.

The course will take the form of a mentoring programme. The aim is to deepen professional skills and networking.

The value of mentoring lies in the fact that the student is matched with a personal mentor who has graduated from Haaga-Helia. Mentoring is learning together, sharing experiences and knowledge through interaction.

As the programme is looking for a personal mentor for participants, those accepted for the course must respond in good time to a preliminary questionnaire sent by email.

It is up to the student to define the objectives for the mentoring. The objectives may be related to career planning, finding a concrete internship or job, facing the challenges of a final stage of working life or studying, self-development, getting to know Finnish working life or deepening expertise. The programme aims at the professional growth of the student and the strengthening of professional connections.

In the introduction, you will learn about the basics of mentoring and refine your objectives. The first group meeting will introduce you to your mentor and the rules of mentoring, agree on a schedule of the personal meetings and develop your interpersonal skills. In the second group meeting, you will network with all participants and hear a guest lecture. In the third meeting, networking will be further deepened.

The course is recommended to be taken preferably at the end of studies.

NOTE! The course is open to all degree students, regardless of campus, programme or orientation. Master's students can enrol, but the credits are not included in the degree.

Material is found in Moodle.

The course is implemented in a work-oriented manner in cooperation with Haaga-Helia's alumni, who act as mentors in the program.

Pasila Campus

There is no exam included in the implementation.

English

A similar mentoring programme "Uralle vauhtia alumnien avulla" is also available in Finnish.

13.01.2025 - 16.05.2025

Once you have been accepted for the course, you will receive an email with a link to a preliminary questionnaire, which you must answer in time in order to participate. Mentoring pairs will be formed on the basis of the questionnaire. During the course, you will return a mentoring agreement and a learning diary in the form of a short report.

02.01.2025 - 10.01.2025

Introduction to mentoring (compulsory attendance): in Teams, Wednesday 15.1. at 16-17, 1 hour
Group meetings (compulsory attendance): at Pasila campus, 6 hours
• 29 January at 16.30–18.30
• 19 March at 16.30–18.30
• 7 May at 16.30–18.30

Mentor meetings: to be agreed with the mentor separately (remote or on-site), minimum 6 hours
Independent study: 2.5 hours at your own pace
Assessment of own learning: 3 hours at your own pace
Depending on the implementation, the course may also include optional organisational visits..

CONTACT
BLENDED

It is not possible to perform in other ways.

Elina El Amrani

15 - 45

Participation in group meetings (pass / fail)
Mentoring agreement (pass / to be to be completed / fail)
Learning diary (pass / to be to be completed / fail)

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