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.

You can only enrol for the course during the actual enrolment period. A mandatory pre-registration questionnaire will be sent to your email within one week after the enrolment deadline. You must reply within one week.

Post enrolment for this course is not possible.

The mentoring programme aims at the professional growth and the strengthening of professional relationships of the student (mentee).

The student is assigned a personal Haaga-Helia alumna/alumnus as a mentor who guides and supports the mentee in goals. Mentoring is about learning together, sharing experiences and knowledge through interaction.

The student defines the objectives of the mentoring. The objectives may be related to career planning, finding a job or work placement, a change of industry, employment goals abroad, certain challenges in the final stage of studies or working life, learning about the Finnish working culture or a particular industry, self-development or deepening expertise.

The mentoring programme consists of one-to-one mentoring meetings between mentor and mentee, joint group meetings and self-study materials in Moodle. In the kick off meeting, the objectives and ground rules of mentoring are discussed, a mentoring agreement is drawn up and interpersonal skills are developed. We also network with each other as a group in the programme.

NOTE! The course is open to all degree students, regardless of campus, programme or orientation. Master 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

The compulsory pre-registration questionnaire will be sent by email no later than Monday 26.5. It must be answered by Sunday 1.6. (Late registration is not possible.)

There is no exam included in the implementation.

English

The mentoring programme is also taught in Finnish. It is called Uralle vauhtia alumnien avulla.

18.08.2025 - 12.12.2025

After acceptance to the course, you will receive a questionnaire, which is a prerequisite for participation. Mentoring pairs will be formed on the basis of the questionnaire. During the course, you will return a learning diary in the form of a short report.

Group meetings 3 x 2 h = 6 h
Mentoring sessions with the mentor minimum 4 x 1,5 h = 6 h
Voluntary visits to different organisations where mentors work max. 3 x 1,5 h = 4,5 h
Independent study 2,5 h
Assessment of own learning 2,5 h

Group meetings, where attendance at the campus is compulsory:
20.8. Orientarion to mentoring at 12–13, Teams
27.8. Group meeting at 16.30–18.30, Pasila campus
8.10. Group meeting at 16.30–18.30, Pasila campus
19.11. Group meeting at 16.30–18.30, Pasila campus

Meetings between mentee and mentor are agreed by themselves. They can be done remotely or by meeting at a place agreed by you.

CONTACT
BLENDED

Elina El Amrani

15 - 45

Participation in mentoring meetings (pass/fail)
Participation in group meetings (pass/fail)
Learning diary (pass/fail)

ITBBA Business Information Technology, SPOCMA Degree Programme in Sports Coaching and Management, INTBBA International Business

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H-5