Herizon Community Newsletter 8/2025
Hi there! Whether you've been hustling through the summer or just dialing back from vacation mode, we're excited to be starting the Fall season with you! 🤩
From continuing to build our new home on Herizon Portal to events around knowledge sharing, building networking skills and friendships and having a great time together, we've got lots coming up to keep you a busy bee these coming months 🐝
What's happening? Read it all below 👇
Who's ready to run? 🏁
The Herizon team is inviting you to join our team at the SANDSTORM RUN event, where we run the iconic route depicted in Darude’s Sandstorm music video
This is a paid event. By registering, you'll join the Herizon running team, and Herizon will cover your admission fee.
Spots are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, so make sure to get yours ASAP.
Polish your pitching skills ✨
Welcome to an online keynote and workshop with Jeansny Srisawang, a Senior Social Executive, currently working with ONE, Asia’s largest billion dollar global sports media property with a worldwide broadcast to over 190 countries.
In this workshop, Jeansny will share her experience and advice to help polish your pitching, presentation and speaking skills that will help you present yourself in today’s ultra-competitive market in a compelling and authentic way.
You will also build an elevator pitch for yourself during the session!
Let's rethink networking 👥
Join us for a cozy fireside panel where our guest, Jones Häkkinen, creative, media professional and the host of a popular LinkedIn post series “LinkedIn iltanuotio” (LinkedIn evening fireside) shares his experience, insights, and advice for building value and connections through being active on LinkedIn while staying true to yourself.
This is a great opportunity to address limiting beliefs, fear of being seen, and personal bottlenecks related to networking, Finnish business culture, and creating content on LinkedIn, and maybe beyond it.
Growing through career ups and downs 🎢
In this fireside chat, we’ll be chatting with Dinuka Lankaloka, Lead Product Designer at Basware, and dive into his journey as a product designer and international, the differences he’s experienced between working in a startup and corporate culture in Finland, and how to navigate difficult situations like layoffs while maintaining your mental health.
This session is all about how to navigate your career as an international through the good and bad, and identifying useful strategies to apply to your job search and career journey.
Boot camp's back, alright 🕺
Our first LinkedIn boot camp cohort of the fall season is kicking off Thursday, August 14th, at 14:00-15:00 🥳 We have 4 sessions over 4 weeks where we dive into LinkedIn, the logic of hiring, content creation and more.
Get into sales with expert guidance 💪
Our popular boot camp with Customer Success Nordics is back! But this time we're training you to become a sales pro. We have two super practical events waiting for you. Details and registration for events below👇
Learn the ropes of sales in Finland and start building your skillset through a practical workshop with mentors.
Put your newly polished sales CV to the test and receive feedback and guidance from experienced recruiters in 1-on-1 sessions.
Events by Herizon friends and partners 💜
Bloom Finland, an association helping internationals and Finns to cultivate friendships is hosting their Helsinki chapter's launch event at the Herizon office.
More info and registration link 👈
Codebar, a recurring code mentoring workshop is having their next Helsinki session at the end of August. Bring your code project to get paired with an experienced code mentor and receive support and advice in building your project.
More info and registration link 👈
Herizon Portal quick tips 📱
Now that our home base has been moved to Herizon Portal, it's a good time to make sure you'll have easy access to everything you need, even when you're on the go.
Remember to save your events to your calendar
Some of our events are published exclusively on Herizon Portal. Remember to save the one's your attending to your calendar from the "add to calendar" button! We won't send you calendar invites automatically.
Save a shortcut to Herizon Portal on your phone desktop for your convenience
📱 iPhone (Safari Browser)
These steps work on iPhones and iPads using Safari.
- Open Safari
Launch the Safari browser on your iPhone. - Go to the Website
Enter the URL (portal.herizon.io) of the website you want to save and open it. - Tap the Share Icon
At the bottom of the screen, tap the square icon with an upward arrow (the "Share" button). - Select “Add to Home Screen”
Scroll through the share options and tap “Add to Home Screen”. - Name the Icon (Optional)
You can edit the name that will appear under the icon. - Tap “Add”
In the upper-right corner, tap Add. The icon will now appear on your Home Screen.
🤖 Android (Chrome Browser)
These steps work on most Android phones using Google Chrome.
- Open Chrome
Launch the Chrome browser on your phone. - Go to the Website
Enter the website address (portal.herizon.io) and open it. - Tap the Menu (Three Dots)
In the top-right corner, tap the ⋮ menu. - Select “Add to Home screen”
From the dropdown, tap “Add to Home screen”. - Name the Icon (Optional)
You can change the shortcut name if you like. - Tap “Add”
Confirm by tapping Add. The icon will be placed on your home screen.
Now you have Herizon Portal easy to access, anytime!
Wishes, bugs to report or feedback? 💬
You'll find our feedback chat on Herizon Portal > Chat > Feedback. This channel is for us to hear your feedback, ideas, hopes and wishes related to Herizon Portal and the Herizon community.
🗓️ Upcoming Events
- 13.8. Hybrid / Bloom Helsinki launch event at Herizon (event link)
- 19.8. Online / Workshop: polish your personal pitch (event link)
- 26.8. Live / Codebar code mentoring workshop (event link)
- 27.8. Hybrid / Fireside chat: rewire your approach to networking (event link)
- 31.8. Live / Run together: Sandstorm run (event link)
- 9.9. Hybrid / Fireside chat: Growing your career in Finland (event link)
- 11.9. Live / Sales Manager boot camp, part 1: workshop (event link)
- 23.9. Live / Sales Manager boot camp, part 2: CV clinic (event link)
🔁 Weeklies and recurring
- 14.8.→ LinkedIn boot camp / August cohort (event link)
- Mondays / Finnish online chat (event link)
- Tuesdays / Online meetup (event link)
- Wednesdays / Live meetup (event link)
All events are listed on Herizon Portal from now on.
That was a whole bunch of fun stuff! We're super excited and hoping to see you in the upcoming events and activities 🤩
-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 💜
