Planning multistakeholder collaboration for highly skilled internationals’ employment
In this series of posts, we share our insights on how to facilitate multistakeholder collaboration – in particular collaboration related to enhancing highly skilled internationals’ position in the Finnish labour market. This first post focuses on what to consider before a co-creation process begins. The insights are based on our recent experience of planning and […]
An update on HIWE project’s results, spring 2024
HIWE in brief High-skilled internationals: bottom-up insights into policy innovation for work and entrepreneurship in Finland (HIWE) is a two-year Business Finland funded research project implemented by the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Turku between 2022 and 2024. In the project, we listen to internationals’ experiences of Finland. We look at how […]
Towards inclusive workplaces
Are Finnish companies and other work organisations ready to welcome international workforce? This is a major question to consider when talking about recruitment of highly skilled internationals. It is not only about how internationals can develop their employability, but also about organisations and their ability to employ international talent. Why focus on inclusion? We suggest […]
“Together we are more”
After tackling with recruitment practices in our first co-creation process, we invited multiple stakeholders, including service providers, international talents, companies and researchers, to think about how to optimise the existing services, create impactful solutions and ensure that the voice of internationals is heard when developing the solutions. The proposed solutions aim to address the challenges […]
Enhancing internationals’ recruitment – but how?
In recent years, many services have been developed and implemented to strengthen the society and economy by supporting the integration of highly skilled internationals into the Finnish labour market. Still, problems with the recruitment of internationals continue. What can be done about them? Finding answers to this question is one of the key tasks of the […]
Do you feel that you are heard enough in decision making? Does it matter?
One of the main goals of the HIWE project is to promote opportunities for highly skilled internationals to participate and be heard in Finnish society. In this blog, project researcher Satu Aaltonen asks how internationals currently engage in society, and how their participation could be enhanced. Do highly skilled internationals in Finland feel that the […]
Policy measures on highly skilled internationals’ integration into Finnish society abound – but are they effective enough?
To find out how public policies attempt to respond to the challenges of international talents in Finland, we did an extensive analysis of national policy documents. The results were partly unexpected – and raised a number of questions about the effectiveness of the current integration policies around highly skilled internationals. Public policies in critical focus […]
“Puhutaanko suomea – or shall we use English?” International communication at work in Finland
In the HIWE project, we continue digging into the stories told by highly skilled internationals. While doing that, we have realised that many of the themes discussed in the interviews are prevalent inside our own research team. Learning and speaking the Finnish language is among the core issues that bother international professionals. It is no […]
An update on HIWE project’s results, autumn 2023
HIWE in brief High-skilled internationals: bottom-up insights into policy innovation for work and entrepreneurship in Finland (HIWE) is a two-year Business Finland funded research project implemented by the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Turku between 2022 and 2024. In the project, we listen to internationals’ experiences of Finland. We look at how […]
Ecosystem maps of local international talent services published
Welcome back to our blog! This autumn (2023), we continue to publish results from our research work. As a brief reminder, one of the key objectives in HIWE is to study how highly skilled internationals experience living, working and being an entrepreneur in Finland. We want to learn about both the positives and the negatives […]