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Business Lead for companies

Next programme starts

11 Mar 2024

Module Location

Vaasa

Language

English

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What is Business Lead?

Business Lead is a fast track for unemployed academically educated refugees and immigrants into Finnish work-life by combining education, career coaching and insights into working in a company in Finland.

The programme benefits all parties involved. It can help companies find new international talent, explore new commercial opportunities and markets and get an outside-in view on your business. In addition, it is a unique opportunity to make a difference, it is corporate social responsibility in action. Since the beginning, nearly 270 participants and over 160 companies have enabled the programme. Hanken & SSE Executive Education runs the programme together with Hanken School of Economics. Business Lead won the award for best Talent Development program in Europe by EFMD in 2018.

Become a Business Lead company partner

You and your company have the opportunity to support the programme by offering one or more 3-month unpaid internships in the Ostrobothnia region.
3 months internship in one or more roles in the company from 11 March to 6 June 2024.
Interns are matched with the company based on the best fit.
The internship is unpaid, programme participants stay on standard unemployment packages throughout the internship.
Interns are insured by Hanken & SSE throughout the internship period.

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more information

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Åsa Hämäläinen

Senior Project Manager

+358 40 352 1748 asa.hamalainen(a)hankensse.fi

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Inger Aaltonen

Growth Area Director, Learning Solutions

+358 41 451 4600 inger.aaltonen(a)hankensse.fi

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We had high expectations of the intern and were very happy to see it was easy for the intern to fulfil the job. We recommend other companies to join the programme as it´s a win/win situation; the interns have the possibility to show how good they are and at the same time obtain experience and trust in their own abilities. Companies will benefit when tasks are clearly defined, which also benefits the intern to get the job done well

David Gonzalez

Head of Finance

Fixura

KIP Service decided to join the Business Lead programme because it was a good way for us to find new people that comes in with fresh ideas. We also wanted to test a new concept where we together with another company in the industry area shared the intern. This concept worked very well for everyone.

We gained different benefits by taking part, we naturally started to talk about how things work where he comes from and we also developed our English language skills in the company as well.

The interns had good educational backgrounds and work experience, so we could easily find tasks for our intern. We were able to develop new business opportunities and strengthen/broaden the skills of our teams.

I strongly recommend others to join the programme as a company partner!

Jonas Sandlin

HRD Manager

KIP Service

We chose to participate because we wanted to offer one of the participants work experience and a chance to get a foothold in the Finnish labour market. We benefited greatly from participating in the programme, the intern was proficient in English and could, for example, produce a manual for us in English and also other translations. The intern was experienced and educated so it was also easy to give assignments. Within the organisation, we were encouraged to speak English and it was refreshing for everyone. It was a positive experience overall for us! We highly recommend other companies to take the chance and take part.

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Linda Granberg

HR Specialist

Nooga