Internship Workshop 2
Notebook
Pesti Career Day: 16th Jan
Active job seeking: its not that you give them your cv and they contact you, its the other way around mostly
You have to be proactive and get their contact details, ask for work opportunities for you in the company, ask for what you can develop to get a job in their company
figure out how you are able to talk about your skills
-> Discuss thoroughly with the employer how you are going to organize your work if you are planning to do an internship that clashes with the university courses
https://www.remotefirstcoaching.com/blog/happenstance-in-career-development
-> We are involved in many situations that we may not realize help us build competencies but they do when we later reflect on them, these are important
-> When building your CV its good to intertwine professional and personal journey: i
-> Its important to work around the skills that you may be lacking e.g Finnish and propose to the employer ways of working around it e.g using a translator for this part of the work
-> When approaching companies that are not directly linked to education e.g tech companies, it's important that you have done your research beforehand so you can ask for possibilities of working in a specific department of that company e.g HR, Learning Experience,
-> Job market: 30% of it is visible, 70% hidden
If you can, contact the company before they reach the point where they publicly post about the job
Can you do the job OR do you have the potential to learn it?
Does your personality much the company culture?
Are you motivated and interested to get that specific job?