JSBM2003 Creating Careers (1 cr)

JSBM2003 Näkökulmia työelämään ja työllistymiseen / Creating Careers JYU Moodle course is a self-study platform that gives students basic information about employment, search for work, and working life. The course includes three session themes:

• General career skills and competencies (Finnish content under the title Yleiset työelämätiedot ja -taidot)
• Events and Workshops
• Academic Career: Career lectures and working life information for doctoral students

The expert lectures, events, and workshops included in the course offer information about current working life topics and skills. The course aims to develop understanding and skills to help you plan and build your career path. The topics of the study sessions include, for example, the Finnish job markets and work culture, job search, self-employment, employment conditions and information on how to market and promote your skills and competencies.

Students can select the lectures, events, and workshops from the course program according to their personal interests. The course can be completed with distance learning methods in JYU Moodle. However, the events and workshops can include sessions with timetables and participation requirements.

Skills targets: After the course the student is able to do the following:

• Recognize the practices and rules of Finnish working life
• Recognize one’s own skills and describe them to others
• Manage the job-hunting process from writing job applications to job interviews
• See entrepreneurship as an employment opportunity.

The achievement of skills targets may vary according to the lectures the student selects from the course programme.