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Stop the presses! The Finnish dream used to be getting a job at Nokia. They maintained the number 1 position in terms of most desirable employers for years. This year however, they didn’t even make it into the top three. For economists getting out of University, Nokia is now the 4th most popular choice. For fresh out of school engineers, Nokia is now 6th. The only people who like to work for Nokia are IT people, which makes sense Nokia’s IT budget is larger than a small African nation’s yearly health expenditures. What. The. Fuck. Happened?
“Nokia’s competitors and other Finnish companies such as Finnair have managed to brand themselves better on the labour market in the eyes of students.” — Tommi Ora from the Helsinki School of Economics
Which Finnish companies are at the top of this list? Kone, who makes elevators for fucks sake, and Fazer, who makes bread, pastries and chocolate. How badly did Nokia treat students that they’d rather make a career out of fixing elevators and finding out the right percentage of macadamia nuts to put in a chocolate bar?
[Via: YLE]
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
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