4.1 Earning and proving your competence

PROFESSIONS:

  • Professions are divided according to different professional fields (ammatit) (Source: TE_palvelut/TE services website)

  • Every field includes many different professions

  • The different kind of knowledge and competence are needed in different professions

  • You may want to look at the competence and learning achievements in some professions from section: Digi material.

  • In education you will learn general work life skills (all of us need these) as well as core competence about the profession

  • A sufficient Finnish language skill is needed in order to be accepted in educational institutions.

To purchase competence:

  • You may gain more competence by participating in the education. Vocational education and training courses for that is possible to get from vocational institutes (upper secondary schools) and adult education colleges.

  • Higher education is possible to study in traditional academic universities and in more work life related universities of applied sciences. There is a dual higher education system in Finland

 

In Jyväskylä area there are following educational institutions:

Vocational institutions:

Adult education colleges and centers:

 

Higher education

 

It is possible to develop competence in everyday life too:

  • By participating in the different everyday situations will develop your competence. All the hobbies or interest will give you learning possibilities, which develop competence.

  • It is good to remember that knowing how to do the profession is always related to the product of learning and your life experiences.

  • It is important to know your own strengths. You can practice illustrating your competence by using the words which represent your knowing and skills in following assignment:

  • Competence words

 

Assignment 1:

  • Circle the things and characters following form where you are good at and what you are able to do successfully: (Words illustrating competence).

  • Make a cross on the word where you need to develop in order to get a job which you are interested in.

 

Assignment 2: It is possible to learn from your own life experiences, everyday life or hobbies.

  • Where do you have your strengths and skills?

 

Assignment 3: Everyone has learned values and ways of doing things in his or her own culture.

  • Explain three values or good ways to do things which help you to manage life, study or work in a new country.

 

SHOWING AND INDICATING YOUR COMPETENCE

When seeking a job the employee will ask what you can do. You can show your competence with different ways

  • Formal documents: When accomplishing the education the student will get a certificate to prove that the person has all the knowledge and skills needed in profession tutkintotodistuksen (Certificate in Finnish language)

  • When you are at work you can get a work certificate or letter of reference työtodistuksen. (In Finnish language)

  • With the work certificate, you can proof your competence and skills, which you have earned by your work experience.

  • You can make a CV = Curriculum Vitae (resume). You can write down your competence, work experiences and education. This is called CV. In addition to CV you will proof your competence with formal documents. Persian CV   Arabic CV  

  • You can make your own folder of competences or develop a portfolio: Osaamiskansiossa eli portfoliossa:  (Source: Papupaja diaries, Jekkus´s Blogi) In portfolio you will gather evidences about your competence (narratives, pictures about products you have made, videos etc.)

  • Using “competence hand” as a tool for practice to showing and explaining your skills:  What kind of competence do you have mentioned in a competence hand:

 

 

  • Knowledge: Degrees, studies, the professionalism

  • Skills: Practical doing, experience of applying knowledge to practice, knowing how to accomplish the task

  • Experience: Work experience, hobbies, life experiences which improve your competence

  • Networks: Social contacts, groups you are involved in, associations and societies you are involved in.

  • Identity: Your own personal characters, which support your work, values, what are your personal ways to manage different work tasks.

  • Willingness: Your attitudes and interest

 

 

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A guide for pre-integration
1 Everyday life in Finland
1.1 Welfare and well-being1.2. Participating and influencing the environment1.3. Health, wellbeing and culture1.4. Activities of daily living1.6. Equality and discrimination1.7. A child and everyday living in Finland1.8. Child´s protection and child welfare
2 Coping and sustaining wellbeing
2.1 Stress and crises2.2 Managing the stressful situation2.3 Nature as a support of wellbeing2.4 Relaxation2.5 Self-destructive thoughts and self-destruction2.6 Where to seek help?
3 Work in Finland
3.1 Working culture in Finland3.2 Education3.3 Labour legislation3.4 General work life skills3.5 Job seeking3.6 Stages in a job seeking process3.7 Job application and CV
4 Professional Competence and competence development
4.1 Earning and proving your competence4.2 Assessing your own competence4.3 Professional competence4.4 Demonstrating the competence4.5 Recognition and comparing the degrees earned previously in countries of origin4.6 Developing your own competence
Digital Material
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