Vuoksi

Vocational Program Application

✨Congratulations✨ on finishing your Finnish Language Program. In this article, we will show you how to:

Apply for your dream school
Prepare and submit the required documents

Where are you on the journey?

After qualifying for the Finnish Certification, now it’s time to choose your study program and apply for your dream schools before getting the verification from the school’s principal.

School Application Timeline

Most Vocational Schools will have their own application period. After you've achieved your suitable certification (B1.1 or B1.2 depending on the programs), please inform your partner for further support at this stage.

Access to Wilma

Here’s where you access Wilma, a Finland national vocational schools application platform, to fill in your information and program choice.

Please be noted that you can only apply once you reach the required Finnish Level Certification. If you need further information on the criteria and requirements of each program, please find it HERE.

Step 1. Access the Wilma application system

Your partner will provide you with the suitable application link for your school.

Step 2. Website translation and navigation

From here, you can utilize Google Translate function on your laptop/PC browser to translate to your language for easier navigation. There are 2 ways to do this, by either clicking on the translate button on the right of your address bar or right-clicking anywhere on the website and clicking on 'Translate to...'. An example can be seen in the below video. Even though the Google Translation tool is not 100% accurate, it will help you to navigate the website

(if the video does not autoplay, please click on it)

Translating the website

We advise you NOT TO click on the below button to change the language to English, as sometimes the Wilma portal does not fully support English for the application.

✨ Or you can follow our instructions below ✨

Applying to Wilma

Now that you know how to access and navigate the Wilma website, it's time to start the application process.

Again, please be noted that you can only apply once you reach the required Finnish Level Certification. If you need further information on the criteria and requirements of each program, please find it HERE.

Step 1. Terms & Conditions

On the very first page, you will encounter the Terms step. Simply click ' Hyväksyn, jatka ' on the bottom right to continue to the form.

Step 2. Personal Information

Here, you will fill in your application details and information, including your name, social security, mother tongue, etc.

Surname, Given name, and Preferred name (can be the same as given name): fill in your name.
Sex: by clicking on the button with the blue circle, you can choose either 'Nainen'/'Female' or 'Mies'/'Male'.
Social Security: since you don't have a Finnish Social Security number, please follow this format:

The first 6 numbers will be your birth day/ birth month/last 2 numbers of birth year in ddmmyy format

After this,

If your year of birth is before 2000, add '-XXXX'. For example: if your birthday is 1st November 1998, then you should fill in 011198-XXXX

If your year of birth is 2000 or later, add 'AXXXX', for example, if your birthday is 31st January 2002, then you should fill in 310102AXXXX

Mother Tongue: please browse the list by clicking on the button, if you cannot find your language, you can simply choose 'englanti'/'english'.
Citizenship: please browse the list by clicking on the button and look for your country's name.

Step 3. Means of Communication

Here you will need to fill in some further personal information, such as:

Street/Address: please fill in your home address in your country.
Postal Code: You can leave this blank.
Municipality of residence: you can leave this blank.
Email Address: please make sure your email address is correct, as school will use this to send announcements and further instructions.
Phone number: enter your mobile phone number including your country code.
Home phone: you can leave this blank

Step 4. Previous Education

With Previous Education, you will have to input your degrees here.

For education 'Pohjakoulutus', you can leave this blank.

In 'Degree/Education', you can input the name of your degree. Please select the correspondence level of education and duration/completion (an example can be seen below).

Remember to input your Finest Future Finnish Language Certificate as shown below, and specify whether it is B1.1 or B1.2

ALWAYS remember to tick the 'Olen Finest Future opiskelija' show Vuoksi know that you are a Finest Future's student.

Step 5. Working Experience

For this section, you will fill in your relevant working experience to your chosen program. For example, if you are choosing Practical Nurse program, you can fill in experiences working as a nurse or in relevant hospitals, etc.

For:

Employer: please fill in your company name.
Duration of work: please fill in the duration using mm.yyyy-mm.yyyy format.
Task & Scope of work: please briefly describe your scope of work (what did you do?)

Step 6. Background & Motivation

In this section, you will write a brief paragraph answering the questions stated. For the first question, you can state your strengths, competencies, and skills in relate to the program that you are choosing.

For the second question, describe your current situation and background.

For the third question, if you have any other hobbies, please briefly describe it.

For the fourth question, briefly explain your motivation, why are you coming to Finland and why do you want to study the program and your plan if possible.

Step 7. Permission

In this section, by ticking on relevant boxes, you can give Vuoksi permission to disclose your information for marketing purposes or reported to your mobile phone.

Step 8. Add Attachments

In this step, you will add your Finest Future Finnish Language Certification alongside other documents if applied (lower secondary/higher secondary degree).

Step 9. Almost There

After you have filled in all the information, click on Seuraava to enter the final step.

Reviewing Your Application

Here, you will have the chance to review all your information.

Please make sure that you have attached and filled in all the required information. And double check your email and personal info.

After you are done with reviewing, simply click on 'Tallenna' to bubmit.