Herizon Community Newsletter 4/2025

Is it too brave to say that Spring is finally here? 🤩 The first flowers are blooming and so is our event calendar 🌷

What's coming up? Read it all below 👇

Building growth in B2C 📈

Join us at the Yousician office for a laid-back afternoon to discuss how you can build and measure growth, especially on the user acquisition side. We’ll be joined by Yousician’s growth team members and get to dive into the topic with their lead. 

This event is great for anyone interested in marketing, growth, communications, and business or marketing analytics. And, of course, music enthusiasts 🎸

Reserve your spot 👈

Coding with AI has never been easier 🤖

Join us for a practical workshop led by Herizon’s Founder, VC investor, and AI expert, Mari Luukkainen. We’ll explore together how you can build custom tools or websites (need a portfolio site, anyone?) for yourself using AI as your coding companion—no previous coding experience required. 

Make sure to bring your laptop with you! We’ll focus on building during the workshop, and you’ll get the most out of the event by jumping right into it with us.

Reserve your spot 👈

How to sell in Finland 🤝

Join us for a cozy fireside panel where our guest, Lauri Rauhala, CEO at Salesframe gives us a unique opportunity to dive into sales and the selling mindset by sharing his journey and learnings as a sales professional of 12+ years. 

This is a great opportunity for sales professionals, and skeptics, to understand more about the context of sales in Finland and in the tech field. We will be busting myths about sales as a profession and field, so even if you're hesitant about doing sales, we might change your mind! Job search is sales too, after all.

Reserve your spot here 👈

Get code-mentored by senior devs 💻

We're excited to collaborate with Codebar, bringing their workshops that make learning to code more accessible to the coders in our community. Their goal is to enable minority group members to learn programming in a safe and collaborative environment and expand their career opportunities.
 
In this workshop, you will be paired with a technical coach (usually a senior developer) who will help you with your projects and learning.

Reserve your spot here 👈

Building volunteer-led communities 🏗️ ❤️

Join us for an inspiring after-work panel where we get to learn from the community founder journeys of Maria Rödberg (Customer Success Nordics) and Lumi Tomperi (TA Café), and get peek into how you can snowball your interest in a specific field into a community of like-minded people.

This is a great opportunity to get tangible advice for building your own community, network with fellow community enthusiasts, and of course, explore communities you might’ve not yet been familiar with. 

Reserve your spot here 👈

Union Lawyer at your service 💼

Have you ever wondered why anyone should join a trade union? Or wondered about legal or employment-related questions, but you’ve never been able to ask a lawyer about them? We’re excited to have the opportunity to get an introduction to trade unions and especially Insinööriliitto (Union of Professional Engineers) visiting us in this online event. 

This is a valuable opportunity to explore the value trade unions can add to you as a professional and, of course, to get sound legal advice from a Union Lawyer. You don’t have to be working as an engineer to join this event! 

Reserve your spot here 👈

Weekly mentoring sessions are here 🔥

Our previously internship program-exclusive mentoring sessions are now open for all! Changing mentors presenting sharing their knowledge and answering your questions on a weekly basis until June. Getting industry insights and practical advice has never been this easy.

Check out upcoming online mentoring events in the event feed 👈

Inspiring stories from the Herizon blog 📚

Talent Stories: Fahim Orko & BrainBites

We talked to Fahim Orko from Centria UAS, and here are Fahim’s thoughts on his collaboration with his company and Herizon over the past three months.

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Are you a student at the end of your Bachelor's studies at a University of Applied Sciences? Check out the Herizon Internship Program here.

From 3 Years of Job Searching to Success - An International Job Seeker’s Journey / part 1

Shivani Shree, a Structural Engineer with a passion for sustainable building practices and a Herizon community member, recently started her internship at One Click LCA, a world-leading end-to-end sustainability platform for construction and manufacturing. We sat down with Shivani to learn how after three years of persistent effort, she finally

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🗓️ Upcoming Events

• Yousician x Herizon / excursion and panel (event link)
• Herizon AI coding workshop / workshop (event link)
• Salesframe x Herizon / fireside chat (event link)
• Codebar x Herizon / workshop (event link)
• AI in Job Search / training series (event link)
• Insinööriliitto x Herizon / lawyer Q&A (event link)
• Weekly mentoring sessions / keynote + Q&A (event link)
• LinkedIn boot camp / May (event link)

Weekly recurring community events:

• ONLINE Networking coffee (event link)
• ONLINE Speaking Finnish together (event link)
• F2F Weekly co-working sessions at Oodi Library (event link)

Want to join our member events? Head to join.herizon.io to become a Herizon community member!

New events coming soon 👀

Happy, restful and joyous Easter and long weekend 🐰🐣

-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 💜