Kapula Mentoring Programme

The Kapula mentoring programme offers opportunities and help in finding an internship or a job, for example, and in creating professional networks.

For example, mentoring can help with job interviews and career planning, testing your own skills or getting a good idea of what it's like to work in the communications sector.

The aim of the programme is to create contacts between students in the field of communication and marketing and to establish contacts with the world of work already during their studies, thus helping those who come to study here to put down roots in Central Finland.

• Anna-Kaisa Säkkinen, Director of Communications, University of Jyväskylä
• Heli Toivola, Communications Director, Jamk University of Applied Sciences, Jyväskylä, Finland
• Jenni Hyvärinen, Communications and Marketing Manager, Gradia
• Noora Luoma, Communications and Marketing Director, Osuuskauppa Keskimaa
• Marjo Rönnkvist, Communications Entrepreneur, Sana tai Pari
• Suvi Kallioinen, Communications Planner, City of Äänekoski
• Suvi Vuojolainen, Marketing Manager, City of Jyväskylä
• Tuija Tiitinen, Communications Coordinator, Äänekoski Vocational Education and Training Association POKE
• Vilja Laaksonen, Managing Director, Aava & Bang
• Anni Wargh, Network Manager, EduFutura

I am Tuija Tiitinen and I work as a communications coordinator at Poke Vocational College in North Central Finland. I am responsible for external communication and marketing. I am a journalist, communications teacher and team coach by training.

I have spent most of my career working as a journalist in various media in Finland and abroad. For the last eight years I have worked in organisational communication and in teaching and coaching.

I joined mentoring because I like mentoring and coaching, and I have mentored young people and young adults. I prefer to mentor students who want to go into communication and journalism, but mentoring in marketing is also a good fit.

I am Marjo Rönnkvist, communications consultant, journalist, FM, with 35 years of experience in journalism and communications: as a journalist, editorial secretary, news manager, editor-in-chief and communications manager. For the last few years I have been working as an entrepreneur. Sana tai Pari Ltd provides organisational communication services and speaks for clear and understandable communication. My company's slogan is 'Tolkullista viestintää'.

I was attracted to mentoring by the desire to help. I hope that my experience and expertise will help a communicator or journalist in the early stages of their career. That no one should have to struggle with professional issues alone. I believe that my long and exceptionally varied career can inspire others to be brave enough to try different options.

I'm Suvi Kallioinen and I currently work in municipal communications and previously I worked as an editor and journalist for a local newspaper for a long time. I graduated from the University of Jyväskylä in 2007 with a Master's degree in Philosophy and a major in Speech Communication.

I joined as a mentor because I would have liked to have had a mentor myself during my studies! I would have liked to get to know and network with people in my field. It would have been great to have someone alongside me to listen, encourage and instil confidence in myself and my future, and it would have been good to hear others' career stories.

I am Anna-Kaisa Säkkinen (M.Sc.) and I am currently the Director of Communications at the University of Jyväskylä. I have almost 20 years of experience in demanding communications and marketing management positions in both an international listed company and the public sector. I have worked as a front-line employee for 15 years and in my current role since 2019.

Personally, I am passionate about skills development and I know that starting your own career path is sometimes a work in progress. If I can do my part, and through my experience, to support future makers, I am happy to do so.