Sunday, March 21, 2021

IT Professionalism in Finland

"Professionalism is a powerful quality. It allows you to fulfill your role to the best of your ability. It helps you to impress and inspire others. And it gives you a deep sense of satisfaction and self-worth." - MindTools 


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In IT the knowledge and experience of several types of programs and programming languages comes handy. It’s like in real world too, the more you know the better and what comes learning multiple different languages, that’s great.

Nowadays technology has became even bigger part of our daily life and also replaced many of our jobs too. IT which stand for information technology is major part of it. Everyday there is created new and easier ways to handle things and also softwares that we use, are developed to be more and more effectives. The problem with it is that we are not born with the skills and knowledge of IT. We have to learn it by ourselves and what's the better way to learn than listen professionals like highly educated teachers. Nowadays professionalism comes in several shapes and it is hard to describe. I think professionalism is set of various skills and also ability to share your knowledge and experiences to others. Depending on a field different skills and knowledge is needed, sometimes we are luckily able to combine different skills and knowledge to achieve better results too. According to Piia Vilander the most needed and valued skills that was needed in IT in year 2015 were communication skills and networking, internationality and also marketing skills.

In Finland IT has been one of the popular fields all the time, Finnish people have always been interested in technology and especially in designing. Finland is famous of Linux by Linus Torvalds, Nokia, anti-virus development like McAfee , game development like Angry Birds from Rovio and many others. There is almost endless possibilities in IT field in Finland, in the job market they are searching all the time people for developing, testing and design purposes. 

Almost in every university or university in applied sciences you are able to learn/choose something that is related to IT. In general or more in specific way.

The courses are separated into different fields, there are for example business information technology,  software and systems engineering, computer applications, cyber security  etc. According to Barona in 2018 there was stated that there is around 1600 people to be trained for IT-field per year in Finland, now in 2021 it’s probably much more. But still it's not enough. According to Helsinki Times many Finnish companies are interested in hiring specialist people from overseas to fill their positions and help bring the technology field to life. Many companies do, however, have a hard time finding workers from overseas as most of those workers don't speak Finnish or are reluctant to move due to concerns regarding the strained housing market

Personally I haven’t been studying IT in Finland but according to my other studying experiences there I believe the level of IT studies in Finland are very high level too.


A lot has changed during past 20 years and what comes to IT, the core idea has stayed the same but the devices, the ways we use it and what for we used has changed a lot.

I think how IT professionalism is changed in Finland is that is nowadays so called professionals share their information more and are willing to train people more that it used to be. Before people had to search more information by themselves from internet or from library.



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