the shortcut career academy
Are you looking for a comprehensive career course to level up your employability? How about a program with professional coaching, hands-on workshops, and networking opportunities with companies?
Look no further, The Shortcut Career Academy is here to help you reach your career goals!
Our Career Academy combines all of The Shortcut’s expertise and together with our partners, we bring you the most relevant topics for job seekers in Finland all rolled into one 3-week program! This course is offered free of charge for participants.
Applications for the next two Career Academy cohorts in autumn 2025 are now open throughout July. Don’t miss this chance to level up your skills and employability!
Max. 30 Participants
3 Weeks
Entirely Free
what is the shortcut career academy?
The Shortcut Career Academy is a free 3-week program for job seekers from all backgrounds residing in Finland. It is an intensive career course that aims to increase your employability through a series of workshops, events, and group coaching sessions.
During the Career Academy, you will learn about identifying your strengths, branding yourself, networking, optimising your application documents and LinkedIn profile, and personal resilience, to name a few. You will also learn about Finnish working culture and relevant legislation. Additionally, networking opportunities are integrated into the curriculum.
what is the career academy schedule?
The Career Academy consists of learning sessions each week. The sessions include workshops, group coaching, self-study and assignments, and will be held online and in-person. Sessions run for two hours each every day: at 10-12 and 13-15. We expect you to participate in the sessions and complete the assignments, in order to qualify for the Career Academy certificate.
The Career Academy will run six cohorts in 2025. The maximum number of participants in each cohort is 30.
Applications for the next TWO cohorts are open now!
What skills will I learn?
We will cover important career topics, such as…
- Identifying your top strengths and skills
- Personal branding
- Pitching and networking
- Optimising your job application documents
You will also learn about…
- Finnish working culture
- Labour legislation
- The hidden job market
- Resilience during job search
application process
Applications for the next TWO Career Academy cohorts are open from Tuesday, 1st July until end of Thursday, 31st July.
- Cohort 3: 25th August to 11th September
- Cohort 4: 22nd September to 9th October
There will be no interviews, but we may contact you if we need more information. You will be informed latest by 15th August as to whether your application was successful.
Looking for AWS talent?
In collaboration with AWS Finland, The Shortcut is organising this 10-week program to “level up” Cloud Practitioner certified talents to attain either the Solutions Architect or the Data Engineer certification. We are also collaborating with companies to provide internships, temporary jobs or project assignments.
It is our pleasure to introduce our diverse, motivated and skilled talents to you. Please get in touch with our Talent Coordinator Anna Hiltunen: [email protected].
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