Contact Forum, Helsinki, January 23, 2025
Feel. Connected.
Talent First will participate in the Contact Forum recruitment event in January, together with its partners. Contact Forum is Finland’s oldest and largest recruitment and career event for university students and graduates. It will take place at the Helsinki Expo and Convention Center on January 23, 2025, from 10 AM to 5 PM. The event is free for visitors and offers a full program to support job seekers.
Come explore the job and internship opportunities available through our partners and in our region! There will be, for example, summer job opportunities in Kuopio and Iisalmi. At our stand, you can also learn about the activities of the Sisu Coding School.
Talent First offers its partners the opportunity to participate in a shared stand or highlight open job opportunities through the team. The event itself and Talent First also provide online and social media visibility.
Contact Forum, January 23, 2025
Contact Forum is Finland’s oldest and largest recruitment and career event for university students and graduates. Every year, the event brings together over 140 employers and thousands of active job seekers with a university background. While multidisciplinary, past events have seen a strong turnout of talent from the fields of business, ICT, and technology.
The Contact Forum event website features a new job board where participants can create personal job seeker profiles. Employers, in turn, can create company profiles, enabling participants to explore new opportunities in advance. Open positions available here.
The event is open on January 23 from 10 AM to 5 PM.
Talent First – Booth B6
The Talent First network operates in North Savo with the goal of attracting new talent and workforce to the region by enhancing regional appeal and retention. We collaborate with local organizations, and the project currently involves 12 partners, including municipalities, educational institutions, and companies.
Come learn about our opportunities, including summer job openings in the cities of Kuopio and Iisalmi, as well as Wellbeing Services County of Pohjois-Savo and PeeÄssä.
Project Partners: The cities of Kuopio and Iisalmi, the SawoGrow region, Savonia University of Applied Sciences, the University of Eastern Finland, Wellbeing services county of North Savo, Kuopio Region Chamber of Commerce, Novapolis, Kuopio-Tahko Marketing, Charles River, Medikro, and PeeÄssä.
At the Booth
- Reetta Airaksinen, Talent First / City of Kuopio, +358 44 718 2025, reetta.airaksinen@kuopio.fi
- Henna Halmetvaara, Talent First / City of Kuopio, +358 44 718 2076, henna.halmetvaara@kuopio.fi
- Simone Lehikoinen, Kood/Sisu, simone.lehikoinen@koodisisu.fi
Pihla Pietilä, Kood/Sisu, pihla.pietila@koodisisu.fi - Open job and internship opportunities
- Summer job opportunities from the cities of Kuopio and Iisalmi, as well as Wellbeing Services County of Pohjois-Savo and PeeÄssä. (mainly in Finnish)
Open job opportunities (Finnish is required)
Summer Job Opportunities in the Wellbeing Services County of Pohjois-Savo:
- A variety of summer job opportunities available in the Wellbeing Services County of Pohjois-Savo: nurses, public health nurses, practical nurses, paramedics, ward secretaries, counselors, etc.
- Explore the open summer job positions here! (in Finnish)
Open Job and Internship Opportunities in Kuopio:
- Facility Management Specialist, City of Kuopio (in Finnish)
- GIS Intern, City of Kuopio (in Finnish)
Summer jobs in Iisalmi:
- Summer job, Financial Secretary, City of Iisalmi (in Finnish)
- Summer job in the Children’s Traffic Park, City of Iisalmi (in Finnish)
- Summer job in Marketing and Communications, City of Iisalmi (in Finnish)
- Summer job, Surveying Trainee, City of Iisalmi (in Finnish)
Osuuskauppa PeeÄssä’s summer jobs and other open positions:
- Osuuskauppa PeeÄssä will once again hire several hundred summer employees for various roles in both the retail and tourism and restaurant sectors.
- Summer job opportunities in the retail and tourism & restaurant sectors can be found here. (in Finnish)
- Job openings at summer restaurants are available here. (in Finnish)
- All our open positions can be found here. (in Finnish)
Balanced Living in North Savo
North Savo offers comprehensive educational opportunities, from vocational schools to universities, and a strong culture of entrepreneurship and innovation that creates new career opportunities for both locals and newcomers. Urban life and cultural offerings blend seamlessly with a lifestyle close to nature, providing modern services at the same time. In North Savo, you can live well, develop your career, and enjoy life to the fullest. Here, work and leisure merge effortlessly.
Building the Future Together
Talent First aims to foster regional collaboration to advance shared goals. The region needs skilled labor, and promoting its appeal and retention requires efficient information sharing and service development for both talent and businesses.
This event is part of the Talent First project (North Savo Talent Attraction Model – Impact through Collaboration). The project is co-funded by the European Union and supported by the South Savo ELY (ESF+) along with 12 project partners in North Savo (September 1, 2023 – August 31, 2025).
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Expertise in North Savo
North Savo is home to dynamic, world-class business and innovation ecosystems that are constantly evolving. Activities are developed collaboratively with companies and regional stakeholders, with initiatives implemented across municipal, organizational, and corporate boundaries.
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The North Savo region hosts a remarkable concentration of top-tier research and education focused on technology and automation.
Digitalization, a cross-cutting megatrend across industries, is met in the Kuopio area through a robust ICT ecosystem and the development of digital services. Local players provide solutions in data analytics and data-driven management, as well as cloud-based service solutions and programming expertise.
Due to the digital transformation in industry, the region also offers a strong local customer base for ICT companies.
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The tourism and service sector in North Savo is extensive, offering diverse attractions and experiences for visitors. The region boasts a mix of larger service providers and a wide array of small businesses and development projects aimed at advancing the sector.
North Savo Tourism Ltd coordinates collaboration among regional tourism operators, creates international market opportunities, and represents the region’s tourism sector within agreed-upon regional, national, and international networks, such as Visit Finland and the Lakeland partnership. The company also produces market insights, monitors tourism development, and facilitates partnerships with tour operators.
Additionally, Kuopio-Tahko Marketing Ltd promotes the area through joint marketing efforts, supported by numerous local companies as shareholders and members. In Upper Savo, there is also an active tourism network.
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Kuopio is a center of significant research, development, and business activity in the wellness and pharmaceutical industries, as well as in the health sector, aimed at addressing global health and wellness challenges.
At the heart of the health sector is Kuopio Health, an open innovation ecosystem. Kuopio hosts more than 5,000 health sector jobs and over 1,000 health-related companies across the region. The university campus is located near Kuopio’s city center in Savilahti by Lake Kallavesi, where three educational institutions (UEF, Savonia, Sakky) provide a campus for approximately 18,000 degree and postgraduate students.
Thanks to its world-class research and expertise, Kuopio is one of Finland’s most prominent health sector hubs on a global scale. The city is recognized for its high-level international research in cardiovascular, metabolic, and neurological diseases, as well as musculoskeletal disorders.
The University of Eastern Finland is the largest medical and pharmaceutical educator in Finland and coordinates the National Neurocenter in Kuopio, a collaborative network for neuroscience research and development in Finland. VTT has also launched new research in digital health as part of the growing wellness and health technology ecosystem, aiming to develop global health technology business in Finland and the Kuopio region. Kuopio is home to many leading wellness and health companies, including GE Healthcare, Charles River, and FinVector.
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North Savo hosts a remarkable concentration of high-level research and education focused on technology and automation. Numerous development projects bring together public and private sector players around smart manufacturing and automation, with Upper Savo standing out as a particularly strong technology hub.
The commercialization of technologies and development activities occur in close collaboration between local companies and educational institutions. The multicampus model of Savonia University of Applied Sciences and the University of Eastern Finland fosters this cooperation, aligning R&D activities with the needs of the region’s manufacturing industry. This makes North Savo a prime location for companies specializing in technology, manufacturing, and cleantech.
Several international industrial companies operate in North Savo, including Ponsse, Normet, Profile Vehicles, Genelec, and Junttan. Savonia University of Applied Sciences, Savo Vocational College, the University of Eastern Finland, and other regional partners support the industrial ecosystem by training skilled labor and providing a range of support services for businesses.
