Herizon Community Newsletter 10/2025
Boo! 👻 The spooky season is here 🎃 With cozy evenings, gentle (or pouring) rain, and the slow drift into shorter days. And while the sunlight might be fading a little earlier, we’re here with bright vibes to warm up even your cloudiest Fall days 🌦️
What's coming up? Read it all below 👇
Behind the scenes of QA in Finnish tech 💻
Is manual testing dead, and automation the only way to go? What does QA really look like through the lens of a cutting-edge tech company? Join us at the Ookla office for a morning knowledge-sharing session where we answer myths and pressing questions about software testing and dive into testing culture and market standards in Finland.
This is a fantastic opportunity to get insights straight from the source and to connect with like-minded software professionals.
Practical strategies to internship opportunities 💪
Join us for an online fireside chat with Heremaia Durie, a Founder of a startup (still in stealth mode) that’s helping immigrants maximize their integration experience in Finland. Not too long ago, Heremaia was in a position where he had to find an internship, and now, he’s sharing with us his strategies and practical insights for finding an internship that aligned with his professional identity and ambition.
If you’re currently or will soon be looking for an internship, whether it’s for an integration course or studies, and need a bit of extra inspiration and practical strategies, this event is for you!
Get seen and found on LinkedIn 🕵️
Ready to make LinkedIn work for you? Join LinkedIn boot camp—a course designed to boost your findability, refine your profile with a look into recruitment logic behind the scenes, and give you actionable strategies to become more visible through content and active skill-development.
Events by Herizon friends 💜
Welcome to Femcode Collective—a meetup and online-based community for women and non-binary people who are ready to build and launch their own AI-coded solutions. We’re learning by building, sharing our progress, and turning ideas and dreams into real solutions.
Together, we build, we share, and we launch.
Femcode Collective offers monthly meetups both for beginners and people who are already vibe coding their own projects, apps and services.
Check out upcoming events and grab your spot 👈
Hacker House Afternoon is a vibe coding meetup taking place bi-weekly at Monda in the Maria01 main building. There's no formal agenda. Bring yourself, our laptop and open mind to build your project and reach out to others when you need support.
Grab your spot for the next event 👈
Codebar, a recurring code mentoring workshop is having their next Helsinki session at the beginning of October. Bring your code project to get paired with an experienced code mentor and receive support and advice in building your project.
Weekly meetups are here for you 🫶
If you feel like job search is a burden that's lighter when shared, we've got you! Join our weekly meetups either online on Tuesdays or live at Oodi Library in Helsinki on Wednesdays.
Come for the warm energy, good vibes and extra brains to help you get unstuck or simply to bring some joy into your week ✨
Links to weekly events in the list below and in the Herizon Portal community platform of course!
🗓️ Upcoming Events
- 14.10. Live/ Ookla x Herizon: QA in Finnish tech (event link)
- 22.10. Online / Fireside chat: Creating internship opportunities (event link)
- 16.10.→ LinkedIn boot camp / October cohort (event link)
🔁 Weeklies and recurring
- Mondays / Finnish online chat (event link)
- Tuesdays / Online meetup (event link)
- Wednesdays / Live meetup (event link)
Up to date event list always available at Herizon Portal.
Remember to take a moment to rest before we dive head first into Slush season and end-of-the-year mayhem! ✨🍁
-Viivi + Herizon team
P.S. Does your organization want to support our mission to find jobs for 10 000 global talent in the Nordics? We're always happy to find ways to collaborate through company excursions, internships and more! Reach out to viivi@herizon.io for collaboration opportunities 💜
