We meet a wide range of professionals born abroad who are living and working in Finland. Some have come to study in Finland and stayed here. Others have landed jobs here in Finland. Whether they work from home or at the workplace, they all enjoy the great work-life balance here.

My Career: From Start to Finnish

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Good News Finland

In world news today, sometimes it's hard to find something good. Try some recent headlines from Finland about business and innovation. 

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Here you can find the latest headlines about Finnish companies and innovations. The world's happiest nation means business.

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Breaking News

World news today is not all bad. Take a closer look at business and innovation headlines from Finland, collected together under different industries and themes.

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News Spotlight

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Обзор новостей

Get to know the people in Finland behind the innovations and business ideas making a global impact.

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People

We sit down with notable people living here in Finland who have made a sizeable impact in their chosen field of expertise.

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Take a deeper dive into industries and innovative goings-on from a Finnish perspective.

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Long Read

Longer articles about business and innovation from Finland.

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Five different examples of a particular industry or innovative field from Finland that are doing great things.

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Five From Finland

Experts from Finland share their expertise about a range of topics spanning business and innovation from Finland.

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Opinion

All the latest entertainment and lifestyle headlines gathered together in the one place.

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People focus more on things that make them happy in Finland, says UX designer Roman from Estonia.

Roman Lihhavtshuk, Estonia. Senior UX designer

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UX designer Roman appreciates the relative income equality here

This week, Michele from the US tells how she landed her job in Finland, and shares other insights.

Michele Pelkonen, USA. International support specialist 

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American Michele finds the amount of holiday time here “astounding”

This week, Pouria from Iran tells how Finland gave him the opportunity to work on something that he loves.

Pouria Kay, Iran. Design manager/entrepreneur

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Pouria from Iran values the independence to learn while working

Keanne from the Netherlands has lived here for nearly 20 years. What is her favourite thing about Finland?

Keanne van de Kreeke, the Netherlands. Artist/illustrator  

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Keanne moved here in 1999 with a short-term plan and stayed ever since

Safety, a short commute to work and living close to nature are but some of the things that Australian Craig Primmer values about living in Finland.

Craig Primmer, Australia. Professor of genetics

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Genetics professor Craig appreciates much about living here

This week, Nadezda shares what she feels plays a significant role in Finnish working life.

Nadezda Petrova, Russia. Entrepreneur/legal and tax consultant

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Nadezda from Russia: Networking and a clean reputation are significant

How did Frenchman Mathieu Nicodeme land a job in Finland? And just how does he survive winter?

Mathieu Nicodeme, France. International sales director

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Speaking Finnish is like a superpower for Frenchman Mathieu

What does does this Japanese designer find refreshing and relaxing about life in Finland?

Aoi Yoshizawa, Japan. Freelancer designer

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Designer Aoi appreciates that she can work in English

This week, Brit Christian Evans puts in a good word for communicating in Finland.

Christian Evans, England. English language trainer and author

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Welshman Christian helps Finland to communicate

Why are Finns the best thing about Finland? Russian Angelina Korsunova-Tsaruk explains why in our new series.

Angelina Korsunova-Tsaruk, Russia. Principal researcher

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Principal researcher Angelina values Finland’s sustainability expertise

This week, budding entrepreneur Daniel McMullen shares his perspective on working in Finland, in our new series.

Daniel McMullen, USA. Trainer, actor and voiceover artist

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Daniel from the US appreciates the straight talk in Finland

Discover what Farhana Fayez from Saudi Arabia finds surprising about working in Finland.

Farhana Fayez, Saudi Arabia. SAP technical consultant

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Farhana from Saudi Arabia finds respect and honour here incredible

Discover what Portuguese Hélder Santos likes most about Finland in our new series.

Hélder Santos, Portugal. Associate professor

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Portuguese Hélder Santos loves his researcher job here

In this new series, we get to know what people born abroad think about working life in Finland. This week, we meet Alice Moretti from Italy.

Alice Moretti, Italy. Key account manager and marketing assistant

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Alice is a key account manager and marketing assistant from Italy

Mariana moved here from Portugal for the work opportunities, and loves the nature here – as well as the metal music.

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Mariana moved here for work and loves nature and metal

Slobodan moved here from Serbia in November, six years ago. “I survived the winter and I am still here,” he says.

Slobodan Stanić, Serbia. Head of software at a venture capital company

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Slobodan sees that workplaces are less stressful but still productive

Helena from Brazil appreciates the freedom she has when working here, as well as the personal space she is given during her free time.

Helena de Lino Correia, Brazil. Sales development manager

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Brazilian sales development manager Helena values her personal space here

Muhammad moved to Finland to study and has since gone on to forge a career here.

Muhammad Qutab ud din, Pakistan. Senior software engineer 

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Muhammad sees that people are focused and honest with their jobs

Grace moved here from Shanghai and soon discovered that she was an entrepreneur at heart.

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Grace moved from Shanghai to Helsinki

Rüdiger from Germany first came to Finland in 1994. He shares his insight on living and working here.

Rüdiger Frickenschmidt, Germany. Head of business with service providers

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Trust is the way you conduct business in Finland, says Rüdiger

Lluvia from Mexico loves the fact that she can organise her life from the palm of her hand in Finland and enjoys the independent approach to working here.

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Mexican teacher Lluvia enjoys the independence of working life

John from Wales arrived here 10 years ago and has some sage advice for those contemplating a move to Finnish shores.

John Cozzi. Wales, senior communications manager

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Communications manager John has sage advice about Finnish worklife

Harriet from Uganda moved here in 2010 and now has a very successful business in hair care products, organic cosmetics and fair-trade hand crafts.

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Ugandan business owner Harriet: People here take work very seriously

Persistence paid off for Mark from Australia, who moved to Finland in 2002.

Mark Fletcher, Australia. International editor/freelance journalist

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Mark from Australia appreciates the growing international feel

Dagmar from Germany is inspired by the humble, innovative nature of the Finnish working environment.

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Dagmar wanted to learn from the work culture here

Pride in one’s work, flat organisations, and personal time and space – Yiannis from Greece has much perspective to share from his time living in Finland.

Yiannis Alexopoulos, Greece. Performance marketing director

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Yiannis values Finland’s respect for personal time and space

Karaoke bars, the sauna, Aki Kaurismäki films, nature and the Finnish language - discover what else Briana Romero likes about living in Finland.

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American UX designer Brianna likes the informality of working life

Ramon came here from Nigeria to pursue his engineering degree and then see what kind of opportunities lie ahead.

Ramon Ibrahim, Nigeria. Digital transformation lead 

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Ramon from Nigeria appreciates the level of safety here

Originally from South Korea, Solip wanted to experience more of the outside world and also sought good educational opportunities and moved here in 2016.

Solip Park, South Korea. Co-founder and business design lead

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Solip appreciates that workers’ rights here are supported

Rémy from France describes his story of entrepreneurial success in Finland as one of passion, networking, perseverance and motivation, with a pinch of luck.

Rémy Bertoli, France. Growth marketing and Wix consultant

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Put yourself out there, suggests Frenchman Rémi

Originally from Russia, Polina started out her life in Finland as a student and gradually came to realise that her future career would be in communications and content creation.

Polina Zyaparova, Russia. Marketing and communications specialist 

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Polina likes the the pace and style of life in Finland

Amit from India admires much about working life in Finland, in this week’s edition of our series.

Amit Bhatnagar, India. Professor of water chemistry

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Indian professor Amit enjoys working life here

Rogerio has lived in Finland for the past 10 years and enjoys the honest working culture here.

Rogerio Da Conceicao, South Africa. Regional business development manager 

The Finnish technology sector is in an exciting phase, says Talita

Minwoo appreciates the creativity of Finland’s mobile games industry

The Finnish startup ecosystem has impressed Hoang-Mai

Mariana applies service design to immigration questions

Vibha has embraced Finnish work-life balance

Anna Fatima sees Finland as a good place to start a company