Job Fair Tampere Attracted a Huge Number of Visitors to The Event

The Job Fair Tampere event organized by the city of Tampere's International House Tampere attracted almost 600 job seekers on-site. 15 companies from multiple industries located in the Tampere City Region had registered to the event organized for the first time. Job seekers arrived from all over Finland to meet the employers and representatives of organizations.
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International House Tampere team just before the Job Fair Tampere opened its doors to participants.

The Job Fair Tampere was organized on Tuesday 1 November 2022 in the Employment and Growth Services' Kohtaamisia space at Finlayson. The event was open to all companies located in Tampere City Region (Pirkanmaa) regardless of industry, or company size. The official language of the event was English, so it offered companies the opportunity to advertise especially those open jobs that do not require fluent Finnish language skills.

- We at International House Tampere wanted to organize an English-language recruitment event to match job seekers and companies in Pirkanmaa. The popularity of the event showed that there is a demand for events like this and there are many job seekers looking for work, says one of the organizers Jani Tamminen, Business Coordinator at the International House Tampere.

Jobseekers arrived from Pirkanmaa and other cities all over Finland in queues of tens of meters. Most of the participants were international residents who have moved to Finland, but there were also natives among the participants. The event was open to everyone, regardless of background.

- Although, we attract talents from abroad to Finland and to Tampere, it is also important to make sure that the talents already living here have possibilities to meet the employers. We are putting a lot of efforts to these actions together with our partners, emphasizes International House Tampere's Service Manager Nuppu Suvanto.
 
In addition to meeting the companies, job seekers had the opportunity to take a free photo for their CV, and to get more information about services that support employment in Pirkanmaa. At the event, International House Tampere's partners from the University of Tampere, the University of Applied Sciences and the Tampere Region Vocational College Tredu were there to tell about different educational opportunities. In addition to International House Tampere's Entrepreneurship Advisor and Talent Advisor, there were also representatives from the Pirkanmaa TE Office, Multilingual info Mainio and International Tampere Skills Centre offering information on employment.
 
Job Fair Tampere was organized for the first time, but more recruitment events are being planned. The activities of the City of Tampere's International Talent Attraction and Migration can be followed on social media under the name International Tampere, where we also promote about the future events. 

The event was organized in collaboration with the Tampere University, Tampere University of Applied Sciences and Tampere Chamber of Commerce. The event was a part of the Grow International – Chamber of Commerce’s International Week 2022.

Further information

Nuppu Suvanto
Head of Services
Text: Tiia Heikkilä
Photos: Tiia Heikkilä
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