Osuma helps in many ways: David from Hollola's career path that has sprung forward is a good example of successful cooperation with the young person, Osuma, employment services and self-coaches.
After graduating, getting a job was challenging
David (like many other recent graduates) had challenges getting a job after graduation due to his limited work experience. "You should have experience, but how can you get it when you can't get a job" stories are heard from time to time, and this was everyday life for David as well after he graduated as a merchant in 2018. Now 4 years later, David, who is about to turn 24, has changed his situation. It all started when the Te office advised him to contact Osuma, who works in Hollola.
After graduation, David had applied for office and retail jobs. David went to visit Osuma and things progressed quickly: Through Osuma, Dave quickly got a work trial at Hollola's main library. After the work trial went well, a work contract was signed with him for half a year with salary support for the library and later also at Hollola Swimming Pool, where he worked in ticket sales and in the coffee shop's customer service. In the municipal experiment, a personal personal trainer has been making a plan with Dave throughout the process to support employment and has been responsible for the necessary official approvals, e.g. in terms of grants, studies and salary support. The municipality's Employment Service handles the organization of the municipality's work trial and wage support tasks and acts as a link internally between different parties.
Through customer service work, Dave's job aspirations began to strengthen more and more towards people-oriented work, and library-type customer service work began to feel particularly his own thing. The municipality's Employment Service, Osuma, and a personal coach worked together to help move an apprenticeship job from the municipality's library. Currently, Dave works at Hollola's main library and is completing a librarian's degree on an apprenticeship alongside his work. The Merkonom degree is made possible by the fact that Dave can complete his 3-year library clerk studies in about a year - all the while getting paid.
Initially, Dave had no desire to go to study: he wanted to get a job, and the image of endless essays and sitting at a desk did not appeal. Apprenticeship studies, which are mainly carried out at work, were an excellent option for him: the skills required for a degree can be gathered through work, and work experience is accumulated at the same time. There are usually 1–2 lecture days on the studies per month, and in addition there are written assignments to be done at home. Competence is also made visible on screens at work, the first of which Dave is coming up with on the theme of customer service.
Things progress one at a time - looking for your own field
During Osuma's customership, Dave has received personal support to think together about the direction in which he would go. He has increased his work experience and self-knowledge at work, gained professional contacts and learned new skills. The path in the municipality's points was not the only option: Over the years, we have mapped out jobs on the open labor market for different positions, considered university of applied sciences studies, and tried our best. Dave has met his personal trainer and the Osuma staff both remotely and on site. The solutions going forward have been thought out together as a team. For Dave, he found his own place at the library inside the municipality. Of course, a similar opportunity to work with an apprenticeship contract is also available on the company side.
Dave himself also played a big role in the progress of things: motivation to get a job, reliability as an employee and an active approach open doors. Through the work trial, you can find your own thing and also bring out your own strengths. One step at a time. As in all situations, the environment supports and enables different situations for the young person, but the person himself takes the steps.
During the last 3 years, Dave has strengthened the idea of his own story in working life: a role in customer service helping people. The library deals with customers from babies to adults, and the customer base gets to know a lot. Dave has also been able to utilize his IT hobby in the digital tutoring offered by the library to the municipal residents, where he has been able to help the municipal residents with various low-threshold IT challenges. Dave has gained work experience, made contacts with employers, and his self-knowledge of his own story has strengthened. Often through work, it is best to find it as your own thing - what you want to do and what you don't.
Graduation in sight
Dave is scheduled to graduate in March 2023 as a librarian. With this work experience and education, Dave has a completely different foundation to put effort into the next employment relationship. The future will show behind which counter Dave will be seen in the future.
text and photo: Mari Ylä-Uotila
Published on 24.5.2022 April XNUMX
