This blog provide insights on how work is changing and how you can design a meaningful career path.
Career Design Lab
is a learning hub for shaping sustainable and meaningful careers
Career design is a creative approach for leading your career with meaning, experimentation, and collaboration. Creating a path that is sustainable in terms of your wellbeing and impact while finding meaningfulness is at the core of what career design aims for.
At Career Design Lab, we provide research-based, creative services and collaborate with the Aalto University community and partners. We support Aalto students and alumni in career design, collaborate with alumni and organizations, connect employers with Aalto talent and help all lifewide learners prepare for the future of work. Let鈥檚 shape a sustainable future of work 鈥 together!
Aalto Thesis Day events
The Aalto Thesis Day events will bring together students interested in thesis projects and potential employers in autumn 2025. As a student, you will have the opportunity to plan your thesis through a diverse programme and by meeting with employers. As an employer, you can showcase existing thesis collaboration opportunities within your organisation or brainstorm new ideas together with students.
Aalto Talent Expo 2025
Aalto University's largest recruitment event Talent Expo will be organized in Dipoli (Otaniemi) on November 6th, 2025! Come and meet the employers at the recruitment fair and attend also the virtual fair activities during the fair week.
Summer Job Day 2026
During this live event, arts, design, technical and business students meet employers offering summer jobs.
News
Alum Maria Pirkkalainen-Barber: Business studies built a bridge for international influencing
Maria Pirkkalainen-Barber has graduated from Aalto University School of Business, majoring in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management.
Alumn Salla Lonka implements a culture of experimentation in a home appliance company
Salla Lonka finds it fascinating to examine creative processes from a distance, focusing on efficiency and impact. After completing her master's degree in fashion design, she ended up at a global home appliance company in Stockholm.
Alum Ella Ahmas: 'Getting a job at the European Commission was a great achievement, and I believe that my younger self would be really proud of me'
Ella Ahmas, who studied in the Master's programme in Management and International Business, found her niche through the experience gained in internships and ended up working for the European Commission in her current role.
Alum Laura Suomalainen: 鈥漈he idea of always having your life with you and being able to move from place to place spoke to me.鈥
Laura Suomalainen had long dreamed of "Vanlife" until the opportunity to go on exchange to Norway set the wheels of her dream in motion. Nowadays she travels across Europe in her own van and works remotely.Stay in the loop
Career Services for School of Business students
Aalto University School of Business Career Services offer a wide range of services to our students.
For alumni
As an alum, you are part of Aalto community. Let's stay connected and develop together!
Advancement
We develop alumni activities and build relationships with donors.