Hey everyone! 👋

I’m considering creating a website that shares real experiences from:

✅ International professionals in Finland on how they navigated job hunting, networking, and applications.
✅ Finnish professionals & recruiters on what they look for in candidates and how they approach hiring.

The goal? Make job hunting in Finland easier for internationals by providing real-life insights.

Before I invest time and resources into this, I’d love to hear if this is something people would actually use. Could you take 1 minute to fill out this short form? Your feedback will help shape this project! :)

📩 https://forms.gle/H39cCk7Yr5FPZhBE6

Backstory: I graduated in December 2023 and started job hunting. For months, I kept applying but didn’t see much success. Coming from a different culture, I later realized that I was missing key elements in my applications and interviews, things that I wasn’t even aware of!

What changed everything for me? Talking to professionals - both Finnish and international.

With their insights, I improved my job search strategy and finally landed a job! This made me realize how important real experiences and advice are when navigating the Finnish job market as an international. So, through this project, I want to help others and hopefully add some value to their job search journey. Please let me know what you think! 🙂

Thanks a lot! Any feedback is appreciated! 💙

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Hi,

I'm a 2nd-year computer science student, and I wanted to do a small self-promo for my Tampere-themed project.

This is an app I made as a school project but decided to release publicly. The app is designed to educate users about the history of Tampere through old photographs. I would describe it as a mix between an exploration game and a travel guide, with gamified elements.

Currently, the app focuses on locations in the Pyynikki area, but I plan to add more spots with future updates. It's available only on iOS for now, but an Android version is on the way. The app supports both Finnish and English.

I’d really appreciate any feedback regarding the functionality or suggestions for content. And if you enjoy it, leaving a review on the App Store would mean a lot to me. 😊

Here’s the link: View on the App Store

Thanks for checking it out!

Hi, my husband and I are thinking to move to Tampere and have been reading a lot of negative things regarding jobs in Finland. How is the situation in the hospitality industry? My husband is a sushi chef, is there a demand? Or jobs in general are non existent?

As of myself, I will probably try to find any job possible, as my UK law degree won't be of any use in Finland.

Thanks in advance!

Hei plant people of Tampere, could one of you who has a zz plant or zz raven plant possibly give me a small cutting to propagate. 🌿

Hi all, I’m travelling down from Rovaniemi for Duran Duran in June, and even though it’s still months away my wife is already researching places to eat. You have many more choices than what we have here. 😄

So far, we like the look of Marilou's Filippiiniläinen Ravintola and also Funky Woo Asian Street Food & Bar. Do you have any favourite Korean or Filipino restaurants in Tampere which you’d recommend?

Thank you!💜

Hi all,

I was checking flights from TMP airport, and for some reason most of the flights to Riga are scheduled at a very bad time, 05:20 in the morning. Obviously Nysse doesn't have any option to get to the airport apart from being there from the evening before. What do you do in such cases?

Is TMP airport 24/7 open? So if I go there the evening before can I sleep there on the benches? does it have any lauange?

Moi, I'm a student currently based in Espoo moving to Tampere for PHD at Tampere University. I'm currently looking at the apartments which neighbourhoods are good considering the transport connection to herventa campuse and by other standards.

What used to be a 10 min max bus ride now has become an annoying 30 mins+, which can either be you choosing to walk to Tehdas A or taking some fucking bus that passes by a Tram station.

This post is just to see if anyone else is pissed and unhappy about the situation.

Tietääkös kukaan täällä Tampereelta jotain paikkaa mistä saada lyijyllistä juotostinaa?

Ei, ei ole tarkoitus eikä kiinnostusta aloittaa keskustelua eri juotostinojen turvallisuudesta tms. On vain tarve lyijylliselle tinalle.

Hi everyone! I'm wanting to buy a sofa from Jotex that I love. The problem is that they won't accept my SPankki card and the only way to purchase is through Elpy.

When I look up reviews both Jotex and Elpy look safe, but it seems weird that I NEED to use Elpy right? I'm new to Finland so figuring out where to buy furniture has been difficult. Does anyone know if Jotex is safe, or if Elpy is safe?

I’m from Toronto and was raised by Eastern European immigrants, so I’m used to eating a lot of foreign foods and cooking with ingredients that may not be so easily found here (in Pohjois-Savo, at least). What are your favourite international markets and stores where I can get Eastern European, East and South Asian, and South American foods?

We’ll be moving to Tampere next month so I’d like to find out beforehand.

Kiitos!

Onko Pirkanmaalla jotain hyvättyjä kohteita joihin mahdollisesti pääsisi sisälle? Haen näitä kuvaus tarkoituksiin :) Tarkoituksena on käydä kuvaamassa kohteessa ja jättää rakennus rauhaan. Paikalla ei varsinaisesti ole väliä.

Hey! I have a flight tomorrow (Sunday, Jan. 26th) that leaves at 8:40 am. The problem is, Bolt to the airport is way too expensive, and the only bus (103) going there arrives at 7:24 am. There is no earlier bus.

Would I have enough time? As far as I've checked, my flight is the only one departing tomorrow. I have no checked luggage and I already checked in online.

Mahtaako porukka tietää, että mistä pystyisi löytämään kuvia tampereen kehityksestä menneiden vuosikymmenten aikana? Netistä löytyy osa, mutta lisää janoaisin. Onko jotain arkistoja yms, mistä voisin saada käsiini?

Mennään äitini kanssa katsomaan UMK:ta Tampereelle, niin mitä paikkoja suosittelette perjantaille ravintoloiksi? Ei tarvi olla mitään hifistely rafloja, joitain kivoja ja sopivia hintalaatu suhteeltaan, plussaa jos s ryhmän paikka

Kiitoss ♡♡

Hi, a problem occurred to me today making me this question. Because I don’t have enough balance in my bus card so today I took buses by paying with my debit card, on the machine next to bus’ front door. But then the problem came. I had to take a long trip to somewhere in Tampere, it required me to change bus in between. I got in bus and paid by card at my departure, but 20 mins later when I was in the change stop, I found I couldn’t prove the driver that I should have the valid ticket because I just bought one 20 mins ago, and a ticket‘s validity is 90mins. I showed the driver my account payment history on my phone, which shows clearly the payment information including payee’s name, price, date and time. But the driver only wanted the QR code in Nysse app. He claimed that history cannot mean anything, he can’t know where did I make that payment from it. So consequently, I had to make a payment again. I’m so wondering, how is this system expected to work? Does it mean you can only have one valid ride with paying by card? 90 mins validity doesn’t apply to debit card payer? Can anyone answer me this question? Kiitos paljon!

My company is planning a project and is looking for home cooks, preferably those with a hygiene pass. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

The tagline basically. It was Mr Muscle and it discolored the floor.

Update: I told them and they sent someone over to check who said I wouldn't worry about this and you should relax a little. lol

I have received an offer to join Tampere University as an assistant professor, which I am now taking into serious consideration. I have lived in the Nordic countries before (SE & DK), but I have only briefly visited Helsinki & Tampere. Not long enough to get the vibe of how it would be to live there.

Have you been an expat in Tampere? How was experience? Would you relocate again? For the record, I am a European male in my mid-30s. I am interested in hearing about any type of experiences, including work and social life, housing, transport, etc. Alternatively, if you are a local, you might also be able to comment on those points based on what you have experienced in your environment, especially if you had the chance to interact with expats.

Feel free to disagree and correct me here but housing seems relatively inexpensive and good quality. Transport won't be a major concern either. Weather doesn't bother me much. Nordic Summers are fantastic, and I'm more or less adapted to slightly milder Winters (Stockholm) with less availability of skiing tracks and hence more boring.

As an international student applying for scholarship in Tampere University, how long should I write the scholarship appreciation essay? The max is 3000 but I feel writing 3000 words might be a bit hard to read.

Thanks in advance!

Moro! Kahvit mennyt vähiin ja viikonloppuna näyttäisi olevan paahtamoiden tehtaanmyymälät kiinni. Koskilinnan puodissa olen käynyt, mutta valikoima vaikuttaa aika ohuelta.

Hakusessa on pavut suodatinkättöön ja mieltymys on enemmän kallellaan vaaleaan- ja keskipaahtoon.

Kiitoksia vastauksistanne!

Ei tällä kertaa veetin amisauto, koko jodel psykooseissa. Kuuliko kukaan

Oisko kellään kuvaa siitä virkatusta käsienlämmitin kaiteesta pyynikillä?

I got 1460 SAT, Bronze Medal in a Singaporean Chem contest, First Prize in Provincial English Contest, 3.9+ GPA (converted into american scale)

Extracurricular: Chair of MUN, Head of a department of an English project (we post contents like vocabularies, exercises, hold English writing competition and have attracted nationwide interest), violinist in a school concert.

And i heard that finnish uni only care about SAT not extracurricullar, is it tru 😞