I'm a Finn who has now been living in Ireland for four and half months. I moved here a bit before I graduated from a from a Finnish business school majoring in management and organization, minors were international business and information systems science.
Since it looked like that I would necessarily not be employed before xmas in Finland, or at least before graduating, I had to get fast any job since we have a daughter who was born in July and money was a bigger issue than the type of work. I would have been able to get some job also in Finland probably immediately. I thought that if I end up in a job that isn't quite what i'm looking for, at least it might look better on my CV if I lived abroad for a year abroad and had a similar job there. Now I'm stuck in a totally useless help desk job in Dublin on a 11 month contract.
At the I would probably quite soon get aa least a bit better job in Finland if I went back, but I would also be interested to work for for instance at least 6-8 more months here in a some bit more interesting job than at the moment.
Maybe all below is not that relevant, but I really would need some advice on seeking jobs here which suit for someone who has recently graduated with a Master's degree. Agencys, such as my current emplyer Manpower, don't seem to put that much effort to finding a really suitable work for me. They only propose other call center jobs. I guess they don't even read further when they see that I'm a Finn and then think that this guy would probably be very pleased to work in some Finnish speakin call center job.
I do know the differences between Scandinavian and Anglo-American organizations (where I believe Ireland also belongs), but not that much about the differences in seeking jobs between those cultures.
In Finland it is not common to openly advertise e.g. trainee positions and companies are more eager to hire people who already have more relevant experince, so that kind of position also aren't that common. A lot of open positions are also filled through networks of people who already have jobs.
Finnish employers also see the fact that I graduated a lot sooner than the average as a flaw. Well, at least in Finlad graduating in three to four years it can be a mistake since it is sometimes a bit difficult to get good work experince until on your fift or sixth year of studying. I for instance do not have that much experience except from factory work.
I would need to know more about how to find open postions here and how to apply for those. Are there some better agencys than "manpowers", should I try contacting the companies by email or calling. Or is the right way just reading ads and trying to find a job that way?
Since it looked like that I would necessarily not be employed before xmas in Finland, or at least before graduating, I had to get fast any job since we have a daughter who was born in July and money was a bigger issue than the type of work. I would have been able to get some job also in Finland probably immediately. I thought that if I end up in a job that isn't quite what i'm looking for, at least it might look better on my CV if I lived abroad for a year abroad and had a similar job there. Now I'm stuck in a totally useless help desk job in Dublin on a 11 month contract.
At the I would probably quite soon get aa least a bit better job in Finland if I went back, but I would also be interested to work for for instance at least 6-8 more months here in a some bit more interesting job than at the moment.
Maybe all below is not that relevant, but I really would need some advice on seeking jobs here which suit for someone who has recently graduated with a Master's degree. Agencys, such as my current emplyer Manpower, don't seem to put that much effort to finding a really suitable work for me. They only propose other call center jobs. I guess they don't even read further when they see that I'm a Finn and then think that this guy would probably be very pleased to work in some Finnish speakin call center job.
I do know the differences between Scandinavian and Anglo-American organizations (where I believe Ireland also belongs), but not that much about the differences in seeking jobs between those cultures.
In Finland it is not common to openly advertise e.g. trainee positions and companies are more eager to hire people who already have more relevant experince, so that kind of position also aren't that common. A lot of open positions are also filled through networks of people who already have jobs.
Finnish employers also see the fact that I graduated a lot sooner than the average as a flaw. Well, at least in Finlad graduating in three to four years it can be a mistake since it is sometimes a bit difficult to get good work experince until on your fift or sixth year of studying. I for instance do not have that much experience except from factory work.
I would need to know more about how to find open postions here and how to apply for those. Are there some better agencys than "manpowers", should I try contacting the companies by email or calling. Or is the right way just reading ads and trying to find a job that way?