Each semester, we organize various career events, such as:
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 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.
During this live event, arts, design, technical and business students meet employers offering summer jobs.
In the Career Design Lab workshops you will learn more about career design thinking, identify your values and strengths, create your career narrative and ideate practical experiments with your peers. Throughout the academic year we along with our partners offer workshops and webinars on working life topics. Topics include:
Follow our workshops in the Events section in and sign up!
The free, self-paced online courses offered by Career Design Lab and Aalto University provide an opportunity to explore the future of work, career design, Finnish working culture, creativity, and entrepreneurship. These courses are developed by Aalto University’s faculties and can be completed at your own pace.
This course shows how you can creatively shape your career as you go in the radically changing world of work. It focuses on meaningful work as a core element of career sustainability and explores ways to design a value-driven career narrative to guide your actions.
We are amid a revolution of work, which started already long before the pandemic. This course will look at how the roles of the individual, organisations and society have changed and how it affects how we work today and in the future.
In this course, we will look at how to navigate Finnish working life and how to build a career. We explore working life in Finland from societal, organizational and individual perspectives.
The open access online course covers the fundamentals of startup entrepreneurship
This course will teach you what radical creativity is and how to apply it in individual, organizational, and leadership contexts. You will learn how to create deep change—whether in business, the arts, or technology.
Aalto University offers many courses that can help you find your career direction and develop working life skills. Learn more about online and university-wide offerings as well as courses offered in your own school.
Personal Impact brings to light already existing courses in Aalto University on values and meaningfulness, self-leadership, societal impact, human potential and well-being.
Study courses organised by Finnish universities of technology free of charge. Courses are aimed at all Finns and permanent residents of Finland.
Aalto University Lifewide Learning helps you develop your skills in an ever-changing environment.
Find a course or program for your Aalto University Summer School experience.
Aalto is open! Open University education allows everyone interested in the fields represented by Aalto to pursue studies meeting the current Aalto University degree requirements. You can take Open University classes regardless of your educational background.
From thousands of job ads on JobTeaser to career fairs, events, weekly job search guidance, and practical guides — Career Design Lab supports you in steering your job search, while you are in the driver’s seat.
