Case study
Prisha moved to Finland about a year ago with her husband and their 11-year-old daughter when her husband got a job at a Finnish IT company. After the move, Prisha stayed at home for a couple of months to organize their new home and help her child start school, but then she began to think about her own employment. In her previous home country, Prisha had worked in marketing.
Prisha searched for information about job hunting in Finland on the internet and found instructions on how to register as a jobseeker. Her excellent English skills helped with this. She registered, and after some time, she received an invitation to an initial interview with employment services. During the interview, her skills and integration service needs were assessed, and based on that, an integration plan was created. Prisha was placed on a waiting list for an integration training course to study the Finnish language, as it was assessed that learning Finnish would improve her employment opportunities. While waiting for the training to begin, Prisha started studying Finnish independently and looked for contacts in her field. Her husband’s professional contacts and new acquaintances—many of whom had moved to the same area from the same country as Prisha and her family and worked in large companies—helped her with this.
After a few months, Prisha was able to start integration training in a group designed for highly educated individuals. Halfway through the training, she completed a two-week language internship at a senior care home. At first, she was hesitant about doing an internship outside her own field, but she soon realized that the senior care home was a good place to practice speaking Finnish. She also continued looking for an internship in her own field for a later two-month long work internship. With the help of her contacts, Prisha managed to find an internship in the marketing department of an international company. The internship will begin next week. Prisha hopes that during the internship, she will be able to strengthen her Finnish vocabulary related to her field and build her professional network.
