Commitment to Emotional Wellbeing in the Finnish Labour Market: A Service Design Concept to Redress Economic Captivity of Undervalued Migrants in Finland
Pororo, Geoffrey (2023)
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202401011001
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202401011001
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The purpose of this thesis is to provide a service design concept for facilitating access to career-based employment by skilled migrants in Finland. With an aging population working against its long-term ambitions for continued economic prosperity, Finland as a society finds itself at crossroads in terms of maintaining its labour market vitality. Solutions are urgently needed to reverse the country's virtues and bring it back to a positive growth curve.
In the above state of affairs, a lot is at stake including the long established welfare state that cannot be maintained in the absence of continuous tax coffers from a healthy labour market. This said, the Finnish Labor market has become quite notorious at nepotistically rejecting massive skilled migrant talent conveniently available in the country. Such would immediatel close the impending labour market shortfalls. Unfortunately in Finland, recruitment is often based on word-of-mouth referrals and personal connections than on merit and professional credibility. Qualified migrants are dismissed on the basis of their belonging and are pushed to the fringes of the labour market as gabbage collectors, pizza boys and bus drivers. This grotesque scene has become prevalent and acceptable as the norm.
The thesis therefore, proposes credible solutions needed to bring back this small Nordic state to its senses. Time is ticking and it's doing that very fast. If Finland is desirious of attaining global influence and leverage the massive potential it has as a global player, the nation needs to voluntarily make hard choices regarding its attitude towards skilled migrants.
The thesis hence explores this subject matter and offers solutions through service design thinking.
The purpose of this thesis is to provide a service design concept for facilitating access to career-based employment by skilled migrants in Finland. With an aging population working against its long-term ambitions for continued economic prosperity, Finland as a society finds itself at crossroads in terms of maintaining its labour market vitality. Solutions are urgently needed to reverse the country's virtues and bring it back to a positive growth curve.
In the above state of affairs, a lot is at stake including the long established welfare state that cannot be maintained in the absence of continuous tax coffers from a healthy labour market. This said, the Finnish Labor market has become quite notorious at nepotistically rejecting massive skilled migrant talent conveniently available in the country. Such would immediatel close the impending labour market shortfalls. Unfortunately in Finland, recruitment is often based on word-of-mouth referrals and personal connections than on merit and professional credibility. Qualified migrants are dismissed on the basis of their belonging and are pushed to the fringes of the labour market as gabbage collectors, pizza boys and bus drivers. This grotesque scene has become prevalent and acceptable as the norm.
The thesis therefore, proposes credible solutions needed to bring back this small Nordic state to its senses. Time is ticking and it's doing that very fast. If Finland is desirious of attaining global influence and leverage the massive potential it has as a global player, the nation needs to voluntarily make hard choices regarding its attitude towards skilled migrants.
The thesis hence explores this subject matter and offers solutions through service design thinking.