“Hearthunters teki meistä työllistymisen ammattilaisia!” – by Jukka Niemelä

Sain maanantai-iltana 11.8. klo 23.21 mieltä lämmittävän sähköpostin. Se oli kuin joulubonus, josta yrittäjän on kuitenkin turha haaveilla. Eräs valmennettavistamme antoi palautetta oikein täyslaidallisen.

What Can a Job Seeker Do During Summer? by Nela Saglenova

Have you ever been in the situation when you were unemployed during the summer?

Who has never experienced it might think that it is a big luck. Typical phrases what a job seeker could here in these times are: “I would change it with you immediately”, “Such a great weather – be happy that you don´t have to be closed in the office whole day”, etc. Very often family, relatives or friends don´t realize that an unemployed person needs their support more than ever and shouldn´t grow guilty feelings for having a free time. It doesn´t help one´s confidence, neither does it eliminate one´s worries about the future. It is worth to explain our surrounding people that to lose the job is not the 1^st price in the lottery. No matter in which season it happened.

Does Finland Deserve the Unemployment Boot and Then What? – by Jukka Niemelä

Microsoft’s announcement on July 17th, 2014 to lay off 14% of its total workforce hits Finland like a lightning. Suddenly. Hard. Damaging. Leaves only smoke behind. But does Finland deserve it’s own share of the boot? Microsoft will dismiss 1,100 employees in Finland, closing Oulu product development unit probably for good. In total, Microsoft will kick out about 50% of ex-Nokians they bought less than a year ago.

Uskontunnustus, rakkaudentunnustus ja lupaus: Hearthunters™ by ISG Finland – by Erja Mäkilä

Oma intohimo innoittajana

Hearthunters on hieman erilainen outplacement-ohjelma. Miksi? Koska me  ISG Finlandissa halusimme luoda aivan erilaisen ja uudenlaisen konseptin outplacement-palveluun  ja johdon työnhakuun. Halusimme tehdä asioita poikkeuksellisen uudella tavalla ja luoda strategisen työnhaun prosessin. Esikuvana työnhakuvalmennuksessamme meillä oli yrittäjämäinen toiminta. Haluamme että muut löytävät työstä samanlaisen intohimon ja innottajan kuin mekin olemme löytäneet omasta työstämme yrittäjinä.

 

YT-neuvottelut – hyvät vs. pahat by Pekka Ryhänen

Yritykset ilmoittavat uusista yt-neuvotteluista lähes päivittäin.  Yhteistoimintalain tarkoituksenahan olisi edistää yrityksen ja sen työntekijöiden yhteistoimintaa ja luoda edellytykset todelliselle vuoropuhelulle työpaikoilla. Kuitenkin neuvotteluiden lopputuloksena yleensä osa työntekijöistä joutuu lähtemään.

Foreigner Starting Career Abroad → Step Out of the Line! – by Nela Saglenova

“To be or not to be…” – that is what Hamlet was asking himself in William Shakespeare´s play. And what is foreigner asking when he/she is starting career abroad? Oh boy – thousand questions and sometimes even to be or not to be…

All networks created until now stayed in the home country. All patterns how to find a job shattered into a thousand pieces and aren´t valid anymore. There is a thick black line behind all the preparation for the future career until now and blank list in front.

The universal key code for every foreigner starting career abroad is to Step Out of the Line. But it is not enough. What else to do?

Does Your Personality Match With Your Job? – by Nela Saglenova

As a part of ISG Finland’s Hearthunter program, I was given a chance to participate in job matching assessment where I could test myself and receive my own individual profile. This experience made me think. Not only about my own career, but also about other people around me and their jobs.

ISG Finland’s Hearthunter Training Program in Full Speed – by Jukka Niemelä

Together with our partner, Profiles International Finland, we have started a Hearthunter training program for experienced business leaders looking for new challenges. The valuable people we have chosen to take part in our program, have already given us promising feedback.

Stupidity Starts to Pay Off: Finland Is Now #1 in Public Sector Costs

Yippee! The awards of dubious honors for Finland is endless! In today’s Helsingin Sanomat our president Sauli Niinistö stated that the public sector costs are 58 % from our GDP. That gives us #1 position in the whole world. And, the value keeps on rising. The number of enterprises in Finland is around 260,000, where the number of public sector employees is around 800,000. Roughly calculated: an enterprise has to carry the costs of three public sector employees.

Wake Up, Finland! Only Jobs Disappear, Not the Work

In the biggest newspaper Helsingin Sanomat was an article today about the threat that automation will replace every third job in Finland. So? It has always been that way. Like Tom Peters has said,

The speed of change accelerates.