| Kartik | Hello, Hyvää huomenta. Welcome to the last episode of our podcast series HOW TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN INTERNATIONAL TALETS IN OSTROBOTHNIA. I’m Kartik Sharma, Project Assistant for the Ready for Talents Project, which is funded by the Regional Council of Ostrobothnia and VAMK. |
| Kartik | This episode is all about investing in yourself—where we will discussing how you can take charge of your development and career growth, especially in the Finnish Job Market. And let me tell you, it’s a game-changer! Did you know that people who actively invest in their own growth are 25% more likely to reach their career goals? and that’s huge! |
| Kartik | Today, we’ll be sharing practical tips on upgrading your skills, why continuous learning is a key, and how to tap into local resources that can help you along the way. So, stay tuned—we’ve got a lot to share with you! |
| Kartik | Today we’re joined by two incredible speakers. Töbjorn Strand who is a career & self-leadership coach and also working at the TE Office, and Laila from Design and Disrupt who is solo entrepreneur, both with first-hand experiences in navigating career growth. |
| Kartik | Welcome, Töbjorn and Laila! |
| Kartik | Let’s start with Töbjörn |
| Töbjörn | Yes, Torben here. I can start. Very happy to be here on this podcast. Just like I said, I’m a career and a self development coach. I help primarily high achievers who want to overcome their perfectionism. Also who are more introverted and to create a better, better life and career for themselves. So the idea is not to have lower ambition, but then to be more effective. |
| Töbjörn | So achieve more by doing less. So, that’s what I do. |
| Kartik | Over to you Layla.” |
| Laila | Well, I’m a solopreneur and happy to be here as well. I’ve been a solopreneur in Finland for more than a year now. I moved to Finland in 2021 to pursue my master’s degree, graduated in 2023, and after that I became a full time entrepreneur. I’m in the field of digital marketing. I’ve been doing that, I have that experience in that field for more than six years.” |
| Laila | So to be honest right now, I really love what I’m doing. I love talking to clients, trying to get new clients and also working on projects and yeah, that’s it about me.” hehehe |
| Kartik | What a great experience. Okay, so let’s dive right in. So, Torbjorn, let’s start with you from your perspective, why investing in yourself is crucial, especially for international talent who are looking to build their career here in Finland.” |
| Töbjörn | First, I would say like your own self knowledge and your idea and the goal and the direction you have in your life, and then also things like networking and language, because think you have some self-awareness that you know what you can do, but it’s not enough to show your certification and a diploma. This is what I have studied and this is what I can do because that’s doesn’t really show what you actually can do, because the challenge is to find the right place and to match the recruiters and the companies with your skills.” |
| Töbjörn | So then you have to do some sort of self-exploration and become more self aware. Then then I see maybe, maybe the problem is that people think that they know more than they actually know when they have graduated. So then you have to find a way to present yourself so that they you are understandable for your market and recruiters. |
| Töbjörn | And that’s the challenge, the matching and many of you study in English. So the most obvious one is the language. It helps very much to know either Finnish or Swedish.” |
| Kartik | Correct. I guess students need to invest in themselves apart from their study as well, so once they graduate, so they need to really look into the market, what’s going on, what is required in the actual market or in the companies. Accordingly, they should be start developing their skills as in when required. |
| Kartik | So, Laila, over to you. As an entrepreneur, you have probably had to rely heavily on personality development to grow your business.” |
| Kartik | What areas of personal development have been the most important for your journey and how they apply to international talents?” |
| Laila | If you want to invest in your personal growth, I think the one thing is just to like what Töbjörn has mentioned, self leadership. That’s that’s the keyword that really popped into my head. And for me that is at some point I thought, you know, I wouldn’t want to be in education. I like the idea of starting a business.” |
| Laila | I’ve always wanted to have a business. That’s something in my dream. Why not do that now? And so I said, okay, this is my goal, to start my own business here, become a full time entrepreneur. What are the plans that I need to get there? And that’s what I did. Even though I was studying, I was already freelancing just to test if it actually works.” |
| Laila | And so when it works that I started getting clients, the first thing I did was to build a portfolio. And I think in Finland that’s super important. Like they wouldn’t trust you if they don’t see any references. I think I only had like five references in my corner during that time. And with that I showed to people, you know, I could do this for you.” |
| Laila | And some of them said yes. So I think that kind of started everything. So definitely have your own goal. Find a way to work through that. How would you make that happen? And then go implement that. |
| Kartik | I think that was the point when you started, you know, investing in yourself, and you started like, you know, being an entrepreneur, right?” |
| Laila | Yeah, Yeah. Even though even though I wasn’t different, I was like, working as one. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Like you have to view yourself as one.” |
| Kartik | That’s interesting. Especially the idea of applying entrepreneurial skills like goal setting and self-awareness and networking to the career. I think the most important part is like to have patience, time and courage. Like to to work on your goals, be it like plan or plan B, but you have to be patient with that. |
| Kartik | Okay. Let’s talk about upgrading their skills. Something I know that a lot of listeners are thinking about. Töbjörn, what specific skills are Finnish employees looking for and how can international talents position themselves for the success?” |
| Töbjörn | Yes, that’s something that changes every year, like every year they have. Like this is what the employers like this year. And I know lately there have been a lot of talk about like the soft skills. But then and then again, what are those soft skills? They probably mean that they wants people that are somewhat valuable, They they can develop them, they can you can hire them and then they can.” |
| Kartik | Be trained |
| Töbjörn | Be trained and take on tasks that that they can learn. And then you have like the the foundation is things. It’s you have some scientific knowledge or you you can do maths or you can you have some skills in communication or selling or something like that. And then or you have the degree and a diploma. That’s what they want many times, forget about the job that they use. Look at the person already is like they, they have like more like an a feeling emotional based so they they go with an emotion and then they look at their like the qualifications to see it match and okay.” |
| Kartik | So I think that’s where the skill development programs come to the picture. So do you have any good workshops or programs available for interactions that they can use and develop their skills in a way that it is valued in the Finnish job market?” |
| Töbjörn | Yeah. At the TE office we know, I know that we make a lot of cooperations with the universities here around like, well, I say study city, so there are a lot of projects to help the students and also international people. There is not only students, like I said, it’s also their partners and their families. So I think we attract a lot of people here to Vaasa |
| Töbjörn | It depends a little bit also on your situation. Are you a student or a jobseeker? So as a student we have like more many networks and courses and programs that that helps you. And you can talk with your own university about the services that they can provide you. I know then from a TE office you become a customer there when you are a jobseeker.” |
| Töbjörn | So let’s say then when you have got a date that you are a jobseeker, then depending on how long you have lived here in Finland, the integration period, and then you integrate to the Finnish society and you learn the languages and everything around that with the goal to get a job. And then also you can choose to not go into doing integration training and you can start looking for a job directly.” |
| Töbjörn | So then we have like the national recruiting, like we have many services for employers, for the companies, and then we have also ongoing career training and job search for jobseekers.” |
| Kartik | I guess like there are so many options or skill development programs available from the TE office and of course you cannot rely only one one resource. You have to look for yourself. You can talk to the universities, you can attend the events happening every now and then in Vaasa. It should come from your like you should be staying active in the market to look for opportunities you can grab.” |
| Laila | Yeah |
| Kartik | Okay. So Laila, as an entrepreneur, I imagine you have had to continuously upgrade your own skills to stay competitive. What advice do you have for internationals to stay updated in the job market? That’s a tough one, I guess.” |
| Laila | Yeah, and it’s a good question. I was actually just having a talk with a person who was looking for a job and they wanted to be in the marketing and they were asking me if they should continue studying or actually find a practical experience work. And I always say, well, probably it depends on your field, but if you’re talking about marketing, a lot of it is really practical work.” |
| Laila | At least in my experience. Clients prefer my practical work that I actually show. This is what I’ve done for this specific client. This is what I can do for you. Rather than saying, Hey, I took this course, right? So I would say the the latter is more beneficial. And in my case, of course, I have done mentoring. Yeah, I was part of one of the mentoring of suomin orittayat |
| Laila | But in terms of marketing itself, I kind of do that as I go along the way. You know, I didn’t like sit down and say, Oh, for one month I will study this, and then after that I will work. It’s kind of okay. I got this client, I know 60% or 70% of what I should do, but I have 30% that I don’t know anything about.” |
| Laila | So I will learn more about that. And obviously there’s Internet too, to do that. So it’s really continuous learning. And as I said, I really learn along the way as I go. Depends on the situation that I’ve been given. And although I know that I have, for example, I have certain skills that I’m lacking, and I do that by probably taking a two day conference, something like that, and try to get as much as I can and try to implement those.” |
| Laila | I get some kind of theory or knowledge from other people who’s been doing what I’ve been doing for years. I learn from them and then what are the things that I can implement from their session or from their discussion and and it’s not much of a theory. A lot of it is really practical work. Like, for example, how can I make my process efficient?” |
| Laila | What sort of process should I do? What sort of software should would my process make efficient? And yeah, for for me, that hasn’t been that has been working so far really.” |
| Kartik | Well, that’s certainly true. I guess like learning is a continuous process and you learn as to where you go. Yeah, yeah. It’s not always one approach that you can learn and use it, like for your business or for your work.” |
| Laila | Yeah. And the problem is that for me, I feel like learning has always been something that you should apply. That’s how you learn. It’s not. You get the knowledge, you learn the theory, and then you don’t know anything. You don’t apply it. What are you gonna to learn from that? Right. And I think that’s that’s why it’s important for me to learn as you go.” |
| Laila | Because if you learn in advance and you think, Oh, this is what I think I would learn or this is what I think I should know, and then you don’t actually apply it. There’s no use of it. So. Yeah. |
| Kartik | So do you have any tips for interested students to figure out which online resources or which courses or which learning materials they should be using, I mean, to improve their career goals or even to enter the entrepreneurial mindset like yours?” |
| Laila | So if you’re in okay, if you’re in Vassa, there’s not a lot, of university. Of course, I had some. I think they had like an entrepreneurship course sometime in the summer. So there’s a lot, but it doesn’t go rolling, like it’s not scheduled every year. You know, if you want to take business school, obviously, but if you just want some kind of mentorship programs or just get to know the entrepreneurship community in general, there’s suomen orittijat and there’s also West startup, West Coast startup, which is related to MUOVA.” |
| Laila | You can search them on their website West Coast Startup.fi I think. They have accelerator incubator. As long as you have a business idea, try to talk to these people because they will be the ones who will guide you on how to implement your business idea.” |
| Kartik | And let’s not forget other helpful programs like Vaasa Spouse Program is there |
| Laila | Yeah. Yeah. Vaasa International Talents |
| Kartik | Vaasa International Talents is there. SIMHE is there for language learning. |
| Laila | And then, and we also have international entrepreneurs network in Vaasa. |
| Kartik | Yeah, Vaasa Entrepreneurship Society. So you can also volunteer for them and then upgrade your skills as and when required. Or, as you want. |
| Laila | Oh I forgot to mention VASEK. They’re actually the number one people that helped me when I was starting and I highly recommend them because I remember at least for my and my on my end, I had really good experience when I went to them and I had this. I told them I was freelancing and I want to become full time.” |
| Laila | They really told me what to do next steps. You should reach out to this people. You should do that. Do that. So yeah, at least for me, they were very helpful. And they also conducted speaking of business plan, because they have real live in-person workshop on how to actually calculate everything. They have their own platform, so just bring your laptop.” |
| Laila | They will teach you what sort of content you put, what sort of numbers you put in everything, and they do it in person on screen. I think that for me was super helpful because that’s how I got my business plan. Honestly. So yeah.” |
| Kartik | And I think, yes, you can start by your own and you can get some ideas like what is required and as in when required, you can go for mentoring or coaching programs. I think what you mean is you learn as you grow or as you go. So on the way, you learn a lot of things. Yes, It’s not always required to plan everything in advance and then try to test it out.” |
| Kartik | Yeah. And then it turns out like it is worth nothing. Yeah.” |
| Laila | Yeah.” |
| Töbjörn | I would say in, in the entrepreneurship, what you do is ready, fire, aim. Which is not the usual way of ready, aim, fire.” |
| Kartik | Thats the key word I guess. |
| Töbjörn | Yeah. Yeah, that’s that. Usually say you don’t spend too much time on preparing and planning. You just get ready really quick. You fire, see what happens, and then you start aiming and like perfecting.” |
| Laila | That’s a really good way to put it. |
| Kartik | Okay, so as we wrap up, let’s talk something about final tips from our amazing guest, Torbjorn. |
| Kartik | What’s your top piece of advice for internationalists who want to invest in themselves and grow their career here in Finland? |
| Töbjörn | Yes, I have three steps, things that you can do to start implementing and become a really good job seeker to get into the Finnish job market. So the first step is to do some self-assessment. Get clear on your values and your life situation, make sure that you have a good life situation. You can manage your emotions, clear on your strengths and you can also handle your weaknesses. And then you also build relationships and be like also resilient to changes and there’s a lot of stress included, especially if you’re unemployed, so be able to handle that. So the idea, is that you can become your best possible self. Because after three months, your motivation goes down and you make less effort in applying and creating the cover letter and the CV, updating it. So then we go to the second step. I see a lot of people here have quite not good CVs in a way that they don’t present themselves, in a good way. I don’t find, I don’t get the who is this person. Like when I see the person in reality, it’s like, ah, this is how this person actually is. And the cover letter and the CV should be a representation of your actual person. and the second step is to see job search as sales. Your CV and application and cover letter should help you get to the next step. And that’s just to talk with someone and for an interview. And then After the interview, you will get a job offer and then you discuss the terms of the offer if you would like to accept it and start working with them. Then to the last third step is to keep on going to be consistent and disciplined to do you that you keep track on the applications, you constantly do the things and that’s when you need to. Take care of yourself every day, every week. Things that you find out, what are the things that I can do that makes me sleep well, that I eat well, what type of food is good for me so that you can be really good. And that’s something that I believe everyone should do. And especially when you’re searching for a job, then you need to be very active and be at your top level, so to say, because it’s a challenge to apply for jobs. Talk with someone, either a coach or in your network, people that you practice and understand each other, that you have open communication about, when you do this, you get like, change in behavior. For example, if you practice a job interview and when you go into job interview mode, it’s like you suddenly change in your persona, like why do you do that? You don’t have to be some kind of, lets say… |
| Kartik | Second Personality. |
| Töbjörn | Second Personality, like selling, like when I talk about selling, you don’t shift to persona that’s somewhat different than you are normally in sales, the best salespeople are themselves. And they’re good at listening and understanding and like connecting what they offer to what someone wants. And that’s the same job search. So the third one is to be aware of your things, be aware of your habits and how you change what like, for example, if you change into your situation, that means that you maybe need to work with your fear of rejection or anxiety or something like that. And then to take care of yourself so that you can be at your best. |
| Kartik | I think what you mean is like to be yourself when you present to someone else. |
| Töbjörn | Yes, yes. To be yourself. |
| Kartik | And I think that’s the perfect or that’s the essence of what we have discussed so far, I guess. What about you, Laila? What’s your thought? |
| Laila | I would say if you want to become an entrepreneur, advice is that make as much mistakes as early as you can. And I learned that. That’s also something that I implemented in my life that I in my career that I can say that I can vouch to. Um, when I first started in my like probably one year of freelancing, I said, Hey, I want to make as much mistakes as I can in this role and see what I can learn from it. And so that, that can prevent you from, you know, making mistakes, so many mistakes along the way in your career. So those two make as much mistakes as you can as early as you can because then that way you get to learn so much. Just face rejection efficiently. That means you know, reaching out, listing down the things that you want to do and then trying to do them right away and then see if they say yes or no. If they say no, that’s totally fine. They say yes, that’s perfect. And for me at the time, I think I listed like… 50. I still have that list by the way, like 50 things that I wanted to do. And I think that’s something practical that you can do. |
| Laila | Just if you’re listening, just go right after this podcast and write down the things, just shortlist and then try to do that. Maybe do once a day. |
| Kartik | I think what you want to mention is not to be afraid of making the mistakes, but the thing is to learn from the mistakes. you know, like the international’s How can internationals make a balanced plan for their personal development that should fit in their busy lives? As you know, most of the internationals are students. They’re studying here and also they’re doing some part-time jobs. So how can they make a balance between both? |
| Laila | The good old big word, time management. And I can talk about how I handle my time. So first off, I try to have a routine. For me, I always make sure that I probably have one to two hours of learning in a day. And then try to have, let’s say, four hours of work or study, right? Then in the afternoon, I try to have at least try to, how would I say, allocate a time where you can actually network with other people. Maybe that’s just one hour or two hours. And when I was studying, by the way, and I was studying for Masters, so I tried to study four hours per day, then four hours client work, then two hours learning in the evening. That’s about it. |
| Töbjörn | To add to that, I’m a big fan of the Pareto principle, which is the 80-20 rule. The 20 % of the activities you do, that gives 80 % of the results and the income. |
| Kartik | Okay, and finally, before we end, what internationals can do today to make themselves prepare for the future as they build their career here in Finland? |
| Töbjörn | There was a time when I was done with my studies, I waited for the diploma and then it’s like, okay, wait for the diploma until then. Then I start like actually looking for a job. Because that was my situation. Some people have, of course, job before they graduate and then everything goes well, but not for everyone. we all have our challenges. And then if I would have done something differently, would already during the studies, I would have started finding out what kind of skills like are needed for like being a beginner position in the job market. Because I didn’t understand that’s what I learned at school, I thought it was enough, but it was actually like high level for a more senior position when you have. some background and you have work experience from before. So then what I would have needed like more some practical skills, some like what kind of programs would I need to use , software or like what do these companies actually want. You talk about documentation, about some editing, copywriting, stuff like that. I didn’t learn about that there at school. We did practical stuff, but then it was, I didn’t have any idea of us. Is it actually what companies want now. |
| Töbjörn | Then, then something that’s something you can find out. And then also to start thinking about how many jobs can I apply to every month? And also start thinking about what other ways can I apply do to find a job? Because applying for jobs is the least effective way to do it. If you apply for open like advertisements, it’s, I have a some stats around that, that it’s least effective because it’s so easy to apply for jobs today. You send an application digitally and there it goes. And then, so let’s have like some kind of status integrity. What do I want? Let’s watch my approach and what other things can I do? So you’re not there in one, two years and then you find out, okay, I don’t have any… big network, I don’t have any resources that I can use. I haven’t learned to apply for five jobs a week. I haven’t done that for a while because now I’m in a position where I need to apply for 10- 20 jobs a week and network with a lot of people. Let’s say LinkedIn, I need to reach out to 10 people a day. And if that’s difficult for you then, then for some people that’s easy, but not for everyone. We need to start with one a week or something, one application a week or something. start, because then you create the habit. A habit, you can’t go create a new habit from zero to hundred in one week. So that’s something I see people make the mistake of not preparing for the future and starting small. and like get 1 % better every day than going 100 % in one week. |
| Kartik | Start with the basics. |
| Töbjörn | Yeah, start today to find yourself in a situation where you don’t have to do 10 things in one week to get started that you have already done like the most of those things one year, many like one year before. And that you have understanding and you know the skills of what the job market wants and how you present yourself. |
| Kartik | Perfect. What about you, Laila? What’s your thought? |
| Laila | Advice, right? Yes. Wait, sorry, what was the question again? So what international can do today to make themselves prepared for the future as they build their career here in Finland? Yeah, Torbjörn mentioned the planning and I completely agree with that because that’s also what I did. I remember I started freelancing first, right? Before I even dive in into and if you have the opportunity to do that while you’re studying, why not? Okay, so maybe if you’re studying right now and you plan to become an entrepreneur, Think about what you already want to do. For example, in my case, I wanted to give out services. So even when you’re studying, maybe try to find projects. Try to reach out to kind of like the dream client that you want to have. Maybe those are small business owners, solo entrepreneurs, micro entrepreneurs, or maybe large companies. Who knows? And then reach out to them and say, Hey, I want to do this for you. Um, can I do, maybe you want to offer it for free. Then you can have some kind of a reference, right? So maybe try to do that. And if you want to do in a, to doing a, you want to be a product based entrepreneur. I remember I can only speak with someone that I know. He was also a student when he, you know, the owner of Elo market. Sorry, if he was listening, I will tell your story. hahaha. |
| Laila | He was also studying as an engineer here in University of Vaasa and he, I think he also couldn’t find a job while he was applying already when he was a student. And then he realized, hey, I want to become a business owner. And so he tried exploring the market. So he started bringing, you know Asian products from his country to here. And then he started marketing to his fellow students. And he did that even before. he graduated. And so there are definitely a lot of ways that you can explore if you’re not just think about some business ideas that you want to do and try to do that already when you’re just studying. And if I would look back at my entrepreneurship journey, what I would do differently is that, so when I first started in my probably when I graduated, say May to May 2022 to December 2022, I was so closed off. Like I wasn’t talking to anyone. I was just mainly focused on myclients, client’s problems or on my client’s work. And what my advice would be, go out there and talk to people. Because that’s when I realized that’s actually how I get clients. You could do so much talking to people online, but that’s not how you build relationships. How you build relationships is to go out and talk to them and introduce yourself and say, hey, this is what I do. And honestly, that is like a game changer for my business because that’s when I got, I multiplied my client tell four times, five times, eight times. Yeah, so as much as you can, if you are planning to attend to become an entrepreneur, sorry, attend as many… events as you can and introduce yourself as an entrepreneur already not as a student please. Yeah, yeah that’s that’s also I’m glad that I didn’t forget that so when I was studying I also I already told myself that I’m an entrepreneur I think people will take you more seriously if you say that rather than say I’m a student, unfortunately. |
| Kartik | I guess you pretty much covered everything what was required for our listeners . |
| Töbjörn | Yeah, sure. would like to that. Yes, absolutely. you start out, also in job search and with a new company, when you have a tried concept, proven concept, then you can start advertising in a big scale and then you can get like attraction that people come to you. Also in job search, when you have built your personal brand, people come to you. So it’s the same for entrepreneurs, new entrepreneurs in job search and in sales. They are connected, all of them. And it’s also in the beginning, it’s function the same way. You need to go there and tell who you are and find out what they want. It’s not what I also see that many who apply for jobs are quite needy and they are desperate and as of understandable. So that’s what I’m talking about. You need to be more deliberate, more planned, more together, handle your emotions and have that direction in your life because it will make it much harder for you if you’re desperate and needy. So, but that’s another thing. What I’m talking about here is that you go out to the market and go to the people and talk with them and find out that is there something you can help them with either for free or paid in the beginning and then afterwards you start getting paid because I get clients mostly by connecting with them, talking with them, asking about their situation and then from there you can start working. I’m not at a stage where I can get a lot of inbound like attraction from the market to me. I get it now and then, but you don’t shouldn’t rely too much on that in the beginning. If you have a proven concept of offer, but something you know that this is actually what I do and it’s very streamlined. I help one person with one problem, with one service, and then you can market that and do advertising for that. Then you can do it. because then you have to dial in your ads digital marketing. So they are like quite the same, even though we’re talking about entrepreneurship and job search. |
| Laila | It’s like a concept. |
| Töbjörn | it is quite similar. We’re talking about the market. |
| Kartik | It totally makes sense. you can, you can all, cannot always expect to earn from the very beginning. You have to do something for it. You have to learn, you have to do some voluntary work for that. You have to do it for, sometimes you have to do work for free for the people to know your worth or like your work, what kind of services you are providing, what kind of… quality or like what kind of output it is giving to them and then you can start building your career accordingly. |
| Laila | Yeah and I’m sorry if I keep extending I just want to say I remember one one friend of mine that’s like doing things for free there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that when you’re starting I don’t know why I know some people who are internationals and they come here and I try to give them work well not me, but my clients, for example, a client of mine are looking for a service that I don’t provide. So I tell them, hey, this friend of mine does this, maybe you should talk. And then I would ask them, did that client work out for you? And then they would say, no, I didn’t accept it because the pay was so low. And I was like, well, you are trying to build your, establish your brand here, your references here. You don’t even have references who are in Finland. You know, but you’re a reject, I mean, I get it. I get it. That is probably people’s, your pride and your dignity. But I mean, I started at zero. I wasn’t getting paid. I built websites for five companies for free. And that’s okay because that’s, I know that that’s my reference and I did great for that. So I feel like for internationals, please, there’s nothing wrong with starting at zero. Because everyone does that. I mean, for some people they started, you know, they started in not in the work that they love. So what’s the difference for you as a service provider?’ |
| Töbjörn | So giving away for free is really valuable. And when you do that, people will see that, okay, if you give this all for free and it’s like, it can be everything, you know, everything you have. And if you are depending on what you do, course, some people do something physically. You can’t services for free because it’s something you have to do. But it’s something that you have the knowledge you have, you can give it for free and it doesn’t take your time to give it. And people can use it. That’s the wonderful side of digital material. So you give it for free and then they see that, okay, this is so valuable. the paid stuff from this person must be really good because they give this value for free. And that’s how it works. You get the attraction and it works. |
| Kartik | So true. Those are really valuable tips for internationals looking to prepare themselves for the future and build a strong career here in Finland. It’s all about taking the proactive steps, whether it’s gaining local experience, networking or investing in personal development. The insights shared today are practical, actionable and short to set anyone on the path to success. A big thank you to Tobion and Laila for sharing your expertise with us. |
| Kartik | Investing in yourself is one of the most powerful ways to advance your career and make the most of your time here in Finland. And to our listeners, thank you for tuning in to this episode. If you are ready to invest in yourselves, be sure to check out our resources we have discussed today and take the first step. I hope you found this episode both inspiring and practical. Remember, keep growing, keep learning and good luck with your career journey in Finland. Thank you so much. Bye-bye. |
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