Membership benefits→ Career Services
We want to enable YKA members to develop skills and capabilities for various career situations and transitions. Whether you are just starting your career, have been in working life for a while, or have extensive experience, you will benefit from YKA’s career services.
Here you can find the YKA’s career services, which are available in English.
YKA offers high-quality personal coaching when members are faced with career changes and transitions. The coaching consists of private and confidential conversations with an expert. Get help with your job search or examine your career goals with a career coach.
You have several services to choose from, depending on your career situation. The coaching is provided online.
You can use career coaching for instance when you are trying to work out what your skills are, how to build your expert profile, and what things are important to you in working life and your career. Career coaching is also well suited for different career transitions.
Examples of topics that can be covered in career coaching
The coaching session is 5o minutes long.
Are you working in a management or leadership role, or are you transitioning into such a role? Do you want support with the transition, building your professional role as manager, or facing challenging situations? Our career coaches can support you also in these situations.
Examples of situations where leadership sparring can help
Leadership sparring is available as a 50-minute coaching session.
You can use our personal jobseeker sparring when you are applying for a job.
Examples of topics to cover in jobseeker sparring
The sparring session is 30 minutes long.
Are you a student member who is about to do an internship as part of your studies? Would you like support with the application process and someone to look over your application documents? Make use of our personal internship sparring service when you are applying for an internship.
Examples of topics to cover in sparring
Career wellbeing coaching allows you to prepare for an upcoming stressful challenge or helps you prioritise things in your current situation. The coaching will help you manage your daily life and give you recovery tips. The coaching also suits situations where you are unsure of your ability to work or the situation at your workplace is particularly stressful. The stressful situation can be caused by things like your health, co-determination negotiations, redundancy or some other kind of psychological stress.
The coaching session is 50 minutes long.
Ph.D. Sparring offers Ph.D. students guidance to help the process and clarify career pathways. Sparring can focus on structuring your research idea and process, strengthening your professional identity, articulating your expertise, and exploring career options also beyond academia.
The sparring session is 50 minutes long.
YKA’s personal coaching and career support services are available to YKA members only and are included in the membership fee. When booking an appointment, you will need your membership number, which you can find by signing in to the OmaYKA service. You can sign in to the online service using your phone number. If you cannot find your membership number, please email jasenasiat@yka.fi.
Appointments can be booked no earlier than 24 hours in advance and no later than one month ahead. You can use two coaching/sparring sessions per calendar year. The length of the sessions (in minutes) does not affect this. Service availability may be restricted during peak periods and holiday seasons.
Please read the terms of service and instructions here
Book your time here: YKA Career Services’ Booking Calendar
A job site tailored for professionals in the field of social sciences, where you can also set job alerts. Possibility to filter jobs in English.
YKA’s self-paced coaching-based online training programs equip you with skills you can use later in your career and working life. Study whenever it suits you best. The trainings are in Finnish, but you can participate by using Howspace’s translation tool.
Do you need a high-quality and professional photo for your CV? Come to YKA’s CV photo sessions. You can find them from YKA’s event calendar.
Maintain and develope your work life skills with YKA’s webinars. You can find the offering in English here.
